From: | Ben Acosta <BACOSTA1@*****.BITNET> |
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Subject: | All Ancients Great and Small |
Date: | Mon, 1 Nov 1993 14:43:26 CST |
as Elves and Dwarves.
Has anyone ever considered the possibility of humans being around for a long
time due to the use of some sort of Magical substance?
For example, maybe there really is a Fountain of Youth.
Another example is from the legend of Gilgamesh. I haven't read it in a year
or two but as I recall Gilgamesh was given by some god a plant or herb which
would give humans eternal life. In the legend it says he loses it, but that
doesn't have to be the case.
A third example would be all those human demi-gods such as Hercules, Perseus,
and some of the other Greek Heroes. Maybe some of them really did have divine
lineage.
One final way for a human from long ago could be walking around is to have one
finally freed from a magical imprisonment. Merlin comes to mind. (I'm a
little rusty in my Arthurian legends. Wasn't Merlin magically imprisoned in a
cave or something?)
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