have stories about opening interdimensional portals been a thing in human history for longer than say, 100 years? is it just me or are we subconsciously memeing this into existence...
(i just watched Stranger Things 3 fyi)
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goes back at least as far as alice in wonderland, so that's 1865. i assume there's older folklore about traveling to fairyland but idk anything about it 🤔
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oldest antecedent i can think of is stories about traveling to the underworld, so stuff like orpheus and eurydice. that's much older! presumably also many stories about dream lands (alice in wonderland is apparently canonically a dream?)
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would be interesting to trace the memetic genealogy of the modern portal fantasy, obviously it owes something to portal itself, maybe also stargate, i would guess something about wormholes in general relativity as an idea popularized by science fiction
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oh, narnia of course, i was going to list that earlier and forgot
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