[yarddog]

It seems to me that most of the ancient Greek myths were basically fairy tales. They often used Gods and Goddesses but still basically the same thing.

[stanne]

My thinking is that superhero stories are influenced by Greek, Roman and Norse myths

[sparklite2]

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind posits  consciousness as a learned process that evolved from an earlier hallucinatory mentality only three thousand years ago.  One half of the brain talked to the other, coming across as God.  The breakdown of the bicamerality was the integration of the brain, and demise of the gods.  Fairy tales may have been the trailing edge of this breakdown, although that is not in Jayne's book.