Oh, memory...

The idea of a history, and of memory is something I find to be very interesting with humans.  Although, with all things, it has to do with the general human obsession with classifying things that are life, and things that are death.  Because, at some point, all people seem to grasp the inevitability of their own passing, they create a wild fantastical story about the past in order to pre-preserve themselves.  We call this 'history.'