THE MYSTERY OF THE CONTENTIOUS IDENTITIES
DID THEY REALLY EXIST?
THE OBSCURE is a hub of mysteries. Its ground is rich with numerous folklores and famous personalities! Though the world’s interest abou these personalities revolves
largely around their life and its details, but there are some really bone-chilling
and dark corners hidden among those colourful hues!
In our present age, it's pretty easy to search for the biography of a celebrated identity; because history is better preserved now than ever before. Everything you never wanted to know about anyone, you can find out. And then you can never forget it.
Alas, it was not always this way! The facts about many historical famous people weren't written down until years, sometimes decades or even centuries; after they allegedly lived! Given this amount of time, the evidence of the person's existence itself may have completely deteriorated, and the legends themselves might have borne little resemblance to what actually happened.
But we're all curious creatures who like good stories, so we just keep on telling the same ones, without facts begotten. Here are some famous people whose names you will recognize but who may never have existed at all, at least in their popular form!!
Alas, it was not always this way! The facts about many historical famous people weren't written down until years, sometimes decades or even centuries; after they allegedly lived! Given this amount of time, the evidence of the person's existence itself may have completely deteriorated, and the legends themselves might have borne little resemblance to what actually happened.
But we're all curious creatures who like good stories, so we just keep on telling the same ones, without facts begotten. Here are some famous people whose names you will recognize but who may never have existed at all, at least in their popular form!!
Of course, there was a guy named William Shakespeare, but we know little about him. We don't know where he learned to write, and his will mentions no plays or sonnets. Maybe the real Shakespeare didn't write much more than a script list. If so, it's unclear who the real Shakespeare is. Plenty of candidates have emerged over the years like — Francis Bacon, Ben Johnson, and Christopher Marlowe; but these possibilities haven't stuck due to some odd reasons.
There's another legitimate possibility in THE OBSCURE — Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere. According to J. Thomas Looney, a school teacher who uncovered great insights of the writer, Vere wrote poetry that reads much like what The Bard wrote. According to this theory, Vere used an assumed name because, as a member of the nobility, he didn't want to be associated with a low-brow art like playwriting. Then, when he died, his followers published his plays under the pen name of some commoner named William Shakespeare! Hence the name WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE and the revolving mysteries!!
The legendary English folk hero ROBIN HOOD is well-known for robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, residing in Sherwood Forest with his gang of outlaws, and wooing Maid Marian. We all know the folktale! The stories are certainly fictitious, but was Robin Hood a real person or simply based on one commoner? It's impossible to say if any one individual inspired the legend's creation. The stories are either totally invented, or are a combination of elements taken from different historical sources.
Identifying a single person as the basis for the famous outlaw becomes even more difficult given that, as the stories began to grow in popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries, random English outlaws began to call themselves Robin Hood.
Nevertheless, some historians speculate that Robin Hood was based, in part anyway, on nobleman Fulk FitzWarin, who rebelled against King John (one of Robin Hood's foes). FitzWarin's life was later turned into its own medieval tale, Fouke le FitzWarin, which holds some similarities to the Robin Hood stories. If he was the basis, then a name change was a good decision. The name Fulk FitzWarin doesn't exactly strike fear into the hearts of villains! Hence the name ROBIN HOOD and the revolving mysteries!!
To quote Confucius - "If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success." That's deep.… and deeply problematic as well! That's a whole lot of wrong there, especially, CONFUCIUS.
Of course, if Confucius never existed, then the quote's been misattributed, meaning the words can't accord with the truth. Thus, in being wrong, the quote would be right, which sounds super wrong. And the Confucian confusion doesn't end there! Experts believe he was born in Lu, China, and created the Ru School of Chinese thought. But depending on which document you read, Confucius comes off as an unflinching idealist, an ambitious politician, or a fifth-century B.C. superhero. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy cautioned that even The Analects, the go-to resource on Confucius, suffers from striking inconsistencies and improbabilities.
In fact, many claims attributed to Confucius are arguably apocryphal. Fittingly, the guy described as China's Socrates raises more questions than he answers!!
Pythagoras' influence on mathematics can't be overstated, though mathematics students stumped by the Pythagorean Theorem might argue otherwise! But there's a growing movement of people who don't see PYTHAGORAS as a mere bane of freshman geometry class — they see him as a work of fiction.
As explained in the book Classical Philosophy: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps (Volume 1), Pythagoras never wrote anything that we know of. Everything we know about the man comes from outside sources like his followers, known as Pythagoreans (like Hulkamaniacs). There's even doubt that his mathematical breakthroughs came from him or his followers. As told by M.F. Burnyeat, he didn't discover his own theorem, and celestial spheres weren't seriously thought about until decades after he died.
Then there's the Book Of Dead Philosophers, which states even classical scholars think Pythagoras is a made-up famous person. That's because of his lack of writings and also an ancient Italian cult called Pythagoreans. They might well have invented Pythagoras as a figurehead "leader" to justify wacky, fanatical beliefs! One such belief is the proof of a right-angled triangle:
a2 + b2 = c2
Hence the name PYTHAGORAS and the revolving mysteries!!
ALEXANDER THE GREAT conquered the known
world and created one of the largest empires in history. After Alexander the
Great's death, pilgrims visited and knelt before his remains until, in the
space of a generation, all trace of his tomb vanished. With no archaeological evidence
indicating the location of the lost tomb, historians are forced to examine
ancient eyewitness accounts and follow the most bizarre of theories in their
quest to locate the missing king.
Did Alexander the Great really exist? Perhaps yes,
and maybe not. Everything that could be used to physically proof his existence
was destroyed or has been destroyed. Even, stories about
him - the one everyone is familiar with today, was written from assembled
sources almost four or five hundred years after his supposed to be death in
Alexandria.
Why was his story was
patched up together from millions of other stories and fables about his exploit
probably after the demise of the last king of Sparta, is a fact unknown!
Hence the name PYTHAGORAS and the revolving mysteries of his existence!!
***Alexander the Great died just at the age of 32 and even his death was quite mysterious! Click here to delve into the Great's mystery!!***
Thus, to sum it up, even the people who guided people towards a better future have a mysterious existence and an uncertain life!! Mystery revolves around us everywhere and it did so even in the past!! THE OBSCURE is all about such facts that mesmerize the readers!! :-)
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THE OBSCURE is a factual citation based on something that seems so obvious superficially. We do not create our destiny, we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.” And as they say, "It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else!"