Early man told stories to explain the world around him. what were those stories like?

Storytelling described the world in a way that they would understand, provide them with a vision of order in the universe similar to the order that existed in their own lives. Their view of the world came to them with invented stories rather than actual science. They were told without a difference between fact or fiction, they were free to imagine and could tell the story how they wanted to.

They wold stories about god and how they thought he created them, some about evil and dread to normally produce more excitement than dread. Children accepted the stories as true because their elders believed them to be true and adults believes what they were told as children.

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the name of the theory is landmass theory.