Quote Originally Posted by Khor tose
However, what you quote is tradition/myth.
Which of the four or five standard definitions of myth are you using?:
1a. A traditional, typically ancient story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes that serves as a fundamental type in the worldview of a people, as by explaining aspects of the natural world or delineating the psychology, customs, or ideals of society: the myth of Eros and Psyche; a creation myth.
1b. Such stories considered as a group: the realm of myth.
2. A popular belief or story that has become associated with a person, institution, or occurrence, especially one considered to illustrate a cultural ideal: a star whose fame turned her into a myth; the pioneer myth of suburbia.
3. A fiction or half-truth, especially one that forms part of an ideology.
4. A fictitious story, person, or thing: "German artillery superiority on the Western Front was a myth" (Leon Wolff).
I'll accept, in the broadest sense, that it could be #2 but I certainly don't accept that it's #1, #3 or #4.

And I have to comment that, given the chance, I would have done young Rageh Omaar when he was presenting on the Gulf War for the BBC, but seeing him on now Al Jazerah he's become, shall we say, corpulent.