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Zikten posted...

in the society of it's time, Gilgamesh was not fiction, it was believed in as a religious historical fact. in our society, we still know that Twilight is fiction. there is a difference

Technically might not be the case. We actually have no idea how literal The Epic of Gilgamesh was taken, or whether it was allegorical, or whether it was a story to entertain children. We don't even have a fully intact copy of it.

That being said, the point of the topic was that someone could misinterpret a work like Twilight as being the source for religious thought, which would be the equivalent of us forming a modern religion about a character from a past fiction, such as Jane Eyre or Robin Hood or Gatsby. It's a pretty unlikely scenario.