The Website of Edward F. Malkowski: About

Why are we here?
Where did we come from?

Wrangling with these two questions have provided the curiosity that has driven my interest in history. As such, they are the focus of this website.

Ultimately, why are we here and where did we come from are the driving force behind all belief systems be they religious or scientific. Implicit in these questions is a third question. How did we arrive at our current biological and social disposition?

In answering these questions, there is a wealth of historical and archeological evidence available to anyone who wants to read it. Archeology, with its physical evidence, is factual and provides validation of historical events. However, history itself is much more elusive. Any attempt to describe history during remote times will inevitably have to explain oral traditions, which are almost exclusively told through stories, what modern manhas labeled myth. Were they fact or fiction or something else entirely?

Our civilization emerged from cultures where myth and symbol was the preferred mode of expression. Such a difference in communication between the 'Age of Mythology' and historical times must somehow relate to cognition and consciousness, as well as the cultural progression of society. Despite the mysteriousness of myth to the modern reader, it certainly held some truth or knowledge for those who created and disseminated it. Finding out what that truth or knowledge was might provide new insights into these questions everyone seeks an answer for. Whether historical or philosophical, mythology retains some of our earliest memory.

Any attempt to answer these three questions - why are we here, where did we come from, and how did we arrive at our current biological and social disposition can be nothing more than theory. In history there is only theory.