A few poems written in Sumerian times, around 2100 BCE, have this starting line or similar (in those far remote times, in those days when heaven and earth were created...). The instructions of Shuruppak, Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Netherworld (not actually part of the compiled Epic), Enki and Ninmah, the Flood part of the Gilgamesh Epic...

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

Myths always take place back a long time ago.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Oddly enough it was actually a mistranslated copy of Jerusalem as the rest of the stone said "walk upon England's mountain green"