According to J.F. Bierlein, one of the most “astounding” and “interesting” consequences of the “encounters between European and the various peoples of
Africa, Asia, and the Americas … was the recognition that cultures vastly separated … by time and geography had religious practices and myths” that were
strikingly similar, i.e. had parallels, common themes, subjects, and characters (267page-attached). For the term paper proposal, propose a similarity that you see between one of the classical myths (Ramayana, Metamorphoses, Trickster Tales, or one of the many myths in Parallel Myths) and a modern myth of your own choosing
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