Thread by @jposhaughnessy

1/ Origin Myths all share quite a bit in common if you read a lot of them together. For example, Eve was seen to bring down humanity by eating the apple of knowledge. Robert Anton Wilson in "Ishtar Rising" recounts:

2/ "In the Greek story, Zeus slights Eris (the Goddess of Chaos) by not inviting her to a banquet on Olympus and she gets her revenge by manufacturing a golden apple inscribed KALLISTI ("To the prettiest one") and rolling it into the banquet hall.

3/ Immediately all the goddesses begin squabbling, each claiming to be the prettiest one and entitled to the apple; this quarrel worsens until men as well as gods are drawn into it and eventually the Trojan War results.

4/ Eris became known as the goddess of chaos and the golden apple is called the apple of discord."

To this day, a "religion." apparently started as a gag by Gregory Hill and Kerry Wendell Thornley, called Discordianism, which "worships" Eris, the Goddess of Chaos,

5/ "Discordianism is centered on the idea that both order and disorder are illusions imposed on the universe by the human nervous system, and that neither of these illusions of apparent order and disorder is any more accurate or objectively true than the other."
~@Wikipedia

6/ Wilson goes on to note "The similarities here — the role of the female, the presence of the apple, the sequence of supernatural calamities — suggest that there might be a common origin to these myths.

7/ Such is indeed the case, according to Joseph Campbell's monumental four-volume study, "The Masks of God."

🤔Ah, now where have we seen Campbell before? Things just get curiouser and curiouser...