@futurebird 🧵 the history.
Later, people begin to write down important things. They find ant stories everywhere, are fascinated how many, and write them down. They themselves have never met the tribe, never seen ants. Every writer influences their choice, their way of writing.
A lot of time later, people fascinated by ants (but knowing not much) find some of these papyri. Many are nearly destroyed, so they try to reconstruct the texts. Sometimes they take pieces of several writers together.
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