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This is my go-to example for why we should not assume old stories are stupid and have nothing to teach us. Not every old myth is literally true, but we've learned over the past 100 years that there's a shocking amount of accuracy in them, to the point that major anthropological dig sites were found by just going to where the stories told us to look, such as one dig site where we think we found the ancient city of Troy, and another where we found a previously forgotten civilization on Crete which we named the Minoans after the greek myth which suggested its existence.

The worst thing the spaniards ever did was burn all the books. I bet there's a lot of interesting stuff we'll never know...