Very enjoyable article, thanks. Geomyths. Will we believe what the ancients try to tell us or ignore their efforts to describe their experiences?
Nobody listens to geologists, anyway...why should we listen to geologists who augment their study with the advantage of myths? :-(
But one point that must be clear is that not all myths have the predictive power that others do. And if you've played the party game "telephone," don't you wonder how the knowledge gets passed on accurately? Some elements are crucial to stories, others are not...so one part of a myth might be real, and the other not.