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They’re not necessarily lies. I usually assume myths are faithful transcriptions of actual historical events, just stylized in order to aid in their retelling.

I think the Big Bang “theory” is one. It might be accurate, or maybe our universe is squirting out of a worm hole. Either way we believe our stories of the beginning to be true just as vigorously and reason about them just as much as the ancients did.

Lies, or corruption due to verbal communication inter generations.

There are mythical accounts verbally communicated for geological events like mega eruptiona spanning tens of thousand years.