one thing, though
memory becomes legend becomes mythology
at each step more removed from the facts, but still carrying a grain
and, remember - from our perspective, these people lived DULL lives.
what do folks in similarly monotonous settings do now?
jaw, endlessly, about hoary memories, legends, and myths.
Just imagine a primitive society, with no contact to the outside world, seeing a plane flying overhead...what would they think it to be?...we know it is an airplane, but they might imagine it to be some sort of mythical beast high up in the air...sometimes what a primitive society reports and records as part of their oral history, is just something modern that they know nothing about....