Hey, it’s like the old stories were a kind of run‑of‑the‑mill code written by people who didn’t have computers. The hero’s journey is a loop, the flood is a stack that gets emptied, the trickster’s riddles are recursion in disguise. It’s not just mystic vibes – there’s a pattern in how the tales repeat, build on each other, and hint at structure. If you look closely, you can see those hidden data structures, but it’s all wrapped in myth because the ancients were clever at hiding the tools they used to make sense of the world. So maybe the myths did encode computational ideas, just in a way that feels like magic to us.