Tales of a Thousand and One Myths - I, by Nas E. Boutammina (Volume 1)

For millennia, Humanity was sinking ineluctably towards the dark moral and spiritual abyss. The world confined in infamous political and socio-economic systems built by a few individuals established in dynasties [the nobility, the clergy, the generals] and who maintained themselves in power by bloody rivalries. What human value could emerge from such tyranny, such inhumanity? What could be expected from societies steeped in magical, superstitious and mythological beliefs?

Human societies were stuck in the tight grip of the Darkness of Ignorance and Obscurantism. From then on, the Science [ Knowledge ] fruit of human reflection which establishes that the Universe is created according to rigorous Laws by a unique, living, omniscient, omnipresent and distinct God from the world was not only unknown , but could not even be design by these societies until the sixth century.

The directives of the divine Messengers were covered with a thick layer of legends and fables. It was then that, willingly or by force, human societies adapted, out of habit, to religions made from a superposition of myths, fictions and constantly modified over time.

The ruling class became deified, intoxicated by privilege and captivated by the cult of power and might. Pillage, massacre and slavery were the only estimable institutions. The Empires were created and perished according to the conflicts. To escape this world of ravages and barbarism, some men gathered in community have cloistered themselves in monasteries and temples in total retreats from the world.

Before the advent of Islam, all societies in general and Greco-Roman society in particular, moved in the quagmire of mythology, superstition and sophisticated barbarism. So how can the latter claim to be the countries of choice for science, literature, the arts and high morality? The content of this book, through its logic and its reasoning, sheds light with the tools of the Human Sciences on these periods plunged into deep darkness.