mirrors in our memories

The complex comes from the simple,
 the simple does not come from the complex.

There is nothing new under the sun is not technically true in the concrete but it is spiritual true in the abstract. Ancient writers were smarter than any  observers today tend to give them credit for because these lookers-on tend to fall into a hubris via the fallacy of jumping categories when they compare ancient writers to ourselves today. We cloud ourselves in our more modern technical language and perspective. But our technical heavy repetition of events organizing concrete facts to tell the spirit of the story is no more accurate than theirs. It does not matter how many or how accurately concrete facts survive in recording devices, it does not change the spiritual account of what happened. If someone does not believe what happened then, they would not believe it today either. What appears in the concrete depends on what began in the abstract world of the spirit.