Cultural philosophies (in the form of stories) mostly had been transferred through ages vocally, well I suppose it was post renaissance that written text at source became the way of citing. One would hardly find any other 'at source' written text for knowledge, (except those like of Huen Tsang). Otherwise all scholarly written articles (especially religious) have been written many years after the source died. One is not sure about any of such written historical manuscripts from Greek or Roman cultures (kindly enlighten me about the same).
One personally feel that there is so much of knowledge around us, which we have ignored because we have listed them in the category of Mythology.What one questions is - 'the means of knowledge' is important or the 'knowledge itself' is important?
Several sacred texts were transmitted verbally - writing of them was frequently prohibited, as well as free dissemination. Nevertheless many of these texts were later written down. Since their description the written versions can be studied by literary criticism. The value attached to verbally transmitted and/or written texts depends on the given culture. Each culture values his own sacred texts high and regards others as pure hisotrical documents. Anyway, the historical reliability of either verbally transmitted or written texts should be examined by histrical methods - insofar it is possible.
What we are today as men of reason is hugely because of a whole mountain of oral knowledge we've inherited from our predecessors. " Thus spoke Zarathustra, Vedas, even Gilgamesh Epics, Iliad and Odyssey Ramayana, Mahabharata and so on. Means are always to an end- Economics speaking. So, simply said, we are still very much into the oral tradition, then we can perhaps try fathoming.
One of the tasks of pure scientific nature is the role played by heritage studies
In highlighting the previous historical stages of the life of culture and society.
We will see from our review of the theoretical trends in folklore that many
Scholars have used folk heritage materials and popular life to reconstruct periods
Historical history, which has only a few scattered evidence, which is known
In the name of Historical Reconstruction Methodology
In this case its traditional role as a historical science, completes and deepens historical knowledge
And expands them.
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