5. Frobenius might seem like a crack-pot, but he's followed a well-trodden path in Western history, where encounters with evidence of cultural achievement in non-white peoples is quickly accredited to some other external force (because natives have no innate ability)
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For some reason I falsely associated 'mana' with 'marzipan' as a kid, and the concept has stuck.
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The "historical continuity" is itself part of the same construction. The thinkers who provided the theoretical underpinnings of transatlantic slavery, for example, were using the ancients in a way that's not too too far off of how the Nazis were imagining their Aryan forebearers.
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