Truth in Myths and Legends

 Mythos were and are a way of interpreting human life or experience.

Logos came to mean an outward or inward form of thought. It meant 'word', but became associated with ' speech, thought, reason, logic'.  It was also used for an 'argument' or discourse'.

The word 'mythology' is made up of two nouns in the Greek language, 'mythos' and 'logos'. This word meant  a prehistoric story of Greece, but overtime the meaning was twisted to mean any unreal or imaginative story. The word 'myth' is sometimes used in a derogatory manner.
The dismissal of myths is a naive decision.
Mythos ,wildly, meant anything said by mankind- verbally or written. They are eternal like art. It is a belief of mankind, what they believe life to be.  
Being told overtime by various narrators, it is nearly impossible to tell what the real myth was. At sometime, the story was believed by people, it was the truth for people who had first narrated or accounted the myth. Some of these myths are about religions. Sometime ago the real account of the myths would have been the one narrated, but overtime the myths get twisted and the true details are changed into something else.

It has changed overtime, only a few remember the truth.