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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 9671336" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Tall tales, myths, and legends are all told in the same way. The protagonist faces some quasi-impossible challenge and through a quirk of their birth or some impossibly powerful skill accomplishes the task anyway.Whether that's Hercules, Pecos Bill, Gilgamesh, or the Monkey King.They only thing that changes between the stories is the language used to convey it and their relative position to our contemporary understanding of time.Gilbert Mexico was a real powerful man who could lift a log thicker'n a telephone pole and throw it clear across three miles before it planted itself upside down! Him and his best buddy Ian Kiddo would wrassle across the great plains and tear out furrows with their shenanigans. Once they even wrestled so hard that an old mountain god of the native folk, Himuwaba, got jostled off his mountain peak and bounded down the mountain! He was so sore he called up on the North Star to send a giant blue ox to fight those two boys. And for nigh on a fortnight and tore up the ground in what's now the Grand Canyon before those boys managed to wrassle that ox to the ground. And the North Star falls in love with Gilbert for his bravery and invited him up into the heavens to marry her. But seein' as how ol' Gil only ever wanted to spend his time with his pal Ian, he rejected the North Star's offer. And Gil and Ian'd spend the rest of their lives having wild adventures!That's Gilgamesh and Enkidu in the story of their battle with the Bull of Heaven after offending Humbaba. Ishtar becomes the North Star and the Grand Canyon replaces mountains that the pair leveled fighting the Bull of Heaven.Add a hint of folksy jargon and shift the names slightly westward and... wham. Tall Tale.Go get money. I'll write. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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