• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    The feature of that story always made me wonder how girls tried that over the centuries before one girl eventually had her story stick

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      12 hours ago

      One girl? It’s actually a super common thing in myths for gods to go down and make themselves a little demigod. Mary lived in a very hellenised region. So I imagine those type of myths were known to people there via the greeks. She was just following a long tradition.