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Originally Posted by zzhk
By authority I mean the actual author or authoring organization. Besides, retcon is about the authoring entity contradicting their previous work.
The oldest written source of a myth is still an interpretation of some earlier oral source, and hence cannot be taken as the will of the original author.
As a fictional series, you can complain about the author taking liberties with the actual recorded myths, but talking about canonicity of fiction is just plain silly.
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An interpretation, artistic liberties, fan-fiction or whatever you call it. It does not change that the author is basing his tale on what we know is the earliest/actual recorded myths ,and he is deliberately altering them in an official literature.Therefore ,he is retconing the original story, which simply meant changing established information in a story. As for talking about the 'canonicity of fiction is just plain silly', you obviously have not met star wars fans--they'd kill you for saying that.Although ,I do agree.