Why Do People Around the World Share Similar Myths?

People share similar myths because they are solving the same problems and thinking about the same ideas. Just like kids from different schools might come up with the same game, people all over the world have made up similar stories to explain things like thunder, darkness, or the stars.

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A boy from Brazil believes thunder is a god who is angry, just as a girl in Japan believes it's the same thing.
Children all over the world tell similar stories about animals talking or being magical because they can imagine it easily.
People in different countries have myths about humans coming from the earth, and some of them even say a god made the sun.

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