It used to be, aeons ago (or… when my parents were kids… or when savage indians roamed the earth… or whatever) that people would sit around, and tell stories - of heroes, or legends, or myths, what have you.
Those stories became something that those people shared; and were able to reference and talk about amongst each other.
We’ve got that nowadays… it’s just a bit different.
Never really realized how much of this stuff I’d absorbed, till I saw this (it always seems like I’m the only one who’s discovered these things… :) )
Actually, this is pretty interesting, and may make some things more identifiable - it’s the same video, but with clips from the source instead of the flash images: