Perhaps you, like Nem, need to be more acquainted with the technical concept of "myth" rather than the colloquial usage.
Myths
Myth from Rakefet Dictionary
Myth
Myth, Mythology [from Greek mythos a secret word, secret speech] An occult tale or mystic legend; the modern use varies from an allegorical story to pure fiction. are after all ancient history and are built on facts or on a substratum of fact, as has proved true in the case of Troy and Crete. A symbolic record of archaic truths, universally prevalent among mankind, as in such stories as that of the Ark, which are almost universally discoverable and identical not in detail but in essential underlying features among the most widely sundered peoples. Myths contain the universal keys which can be applied to anything, and preserve undying and essential truths, so that variations of external form are unimportant. Such truths, being preserved in the racial memory of mankind, can always be kept essentially true to standard; and thus this means of handing-on can correct itself.
Early races of mankind were taught directly by their divine instructors; and in later times, when this mode of teaching was no longer available, the instructions were committed to the racial memory in the guise of allegories: this is the origin of the world's myths. The labors of Hercules, paralleled in the mythologies of some other lands, preserve an epitome of the history of evolution in twelve chapters; tales of heroes seeking to win damsels and having to slay dragons, preserve the drama of the soul in its quest for truth; and so on.
Note: the Bold part is my won emphasis
The Fact that myths can & have been based on actual ocurrances means that even though the Biblical accounts may me myths there is aat least a sence of truth to many of the stories. I don't deny the existance of David, Solomon, Moses, Abraham etc. I just disagree that the Biblical accounts are totally historical.
Edited by bluescat48, : No reason given.
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