Stories/myths that haven’t aged well

[Skeptisk]

I was in the Danish National Museum yesterday. In one part they had animated an Inuit myth/story. Some hunters had not respected seals enough when they killed them so the mother of the sea had collected all the seals at the bottom of the sea so the hunters couldn’t eat. A Shaman had to travel (mystically) to the bottom of the sea and appease her so that the seals would be released. The hunters vowed never to disrespect the seals again. Obviously nonsense but you can understand the message of humans being reliant on nature and not biting the hand that literally feeds them.

Compare that with stories from the Old Testament, which is littered with heavenly genocides because god got upset with humans. People rightly point out that the story of Noah is nonsense but how come its central message of divine Armageddon, with god killing pretty much all humans , animals, birds and plants (including all babies and children, who weren’t old enough to have sinned) isn’t highlighted? Like most people of my age I was exposed to the story at school and probably multiple times on children’s TV but why did nobody question whether it was a reasonable thing for a supposedly loving god to have done? Odd. Odder that just a few years ago there was a Hollywood film about it. I suspect that there are quite a few Americans who think it is true.

Having said that I did grow up in an era where someone who looked and behaved like a pervert/paedophile had his own show and was a “National treasure” so clearly I grew up in strange times!