Man is unique in the animal kingdom in displaying an interest in his past. No other creature has ever had a history it was conscious of, but man revels in it, and keeps detailed records so that the past may be remembered and applied to the present day. There are very few situations in which man cannot look back at his collective history and not find a parallel, or a clue to help him understand his situation. But in one of man's oldest struggles history can bring no succor. This problem predates recorded history, and much of the mystery shall remain unsolved forever more, vanished over a course of thousands of years, in times when man had no more concept of his history than a bear or a mountain. The origin of man is shrouded in a fog that our science cannot penetrate, and despite much research, we are still left with mere snapshots of our history, a loose timeline filled with gaps we are unable to account for or furnish with information. For three thousand years there exists a detailed account of the activities of man, like a tremendous book we have been compiling for as long as we have been able. But it is flawed. It is a book without a beginning, a story with only vague references to an opening that the authors themselves aren't really sure of. We can only speculate so much, and the fossil record remains incomplete and spotty at best, and all the skeletons in the world still couldn't tell us just where they came from, or how they had lived. .
This poses a great problem to man. A keeper of knowledge, a recorder of events, seeker of the wisdom of all things, and he cannot even answer so simple a question as "Where did you come from?- To this end man has created myth after myth, legend after legend, as every culture has tried to explain it own creation, though it avails little, save to perhaps make people feel a little more secure about their forgotten past. As time goes on however, and cultures are eroded by globalization and industrialization, that insecurity grows.