I've never heard of that and I don't believe it to be true. Indigenous Australians were literally prehistoric before the arrival of Europeans, and the factual truth of that statement isn't in question. A culture that held the belief that it had to record everything for the sake of existence itself would have developed a historical record; they did not.
some historical events have become myth - take the Tale of the Nargun for instance. If read properly you can see that it's a story of how the aborigines burnt the scrublands to ward off the advancing glaciers. If read literally it seems like a story about Ice Giants lumbering across the land.
Maybe I found a different version, but the Nargun didn't sound like history-turned-myth to me. If you tell children that there's an invulnerable rock monster living in a cave, I'd assume you're just trying to scare them away from playing underground where they might get hurt or trapped.
Arguably the modern West holds that belief today. How often will you see an individual deny something happened unless the claimant can provide evidence that it did?
I've never heard of that and I don't believe it to be true. Indigenous Australians were literally prehistoric before the arrival of Europeans, and the factual truth of that statement isn't in question. A culture that held the belief that it had to record everything for the sake of existence itself would have developed a historical record; they did not.
some historical events have become myth - take the Tale of the Nargun for instance. If read properly you can see that it's a story of how the aborigines burnt the scrublands to ward off the advancing glaciers. If read literally it seems like a story about Ice Giants lumbering across the land.
Maybe I found a different version, but the Nargun didn't sound like history-turned-myth to me. If you tell children that there's an invulnerable rock monster living in a cave, I'd assume you're just trying to scare them away from playing underground where they might get hurt or trapped.
Arguably the modern West holds that belief today. How often will you see an individual deny something happened unless the claimant can provide evidence that it did?