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Its difficult to trace orally told legends back to their original creation (for example, we know that the illiad had been a epic poem for hundreds of years before it was written down, but its difficult to discover how many hundreds of years).

So, the oldest recorded legends that we can trace include stories relating to the rig veda on Rama in Ramayana and the ancient sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh.

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