There is a vast difference between myth and fact which is my point. You assume I know nothing of which I am talking about. Moreover, I have been around most every teaching that is known in this world, and you assume I am not paying attention, or need direction! I have been around teachers that are dangerous and.................
Many over thousands of years have believed in nonsense, and yet, e.g., there are believers in a flat earth, and a young earth of 6k years old, but still vehemently adhere to religious mythos in the face of contradictory fact based evidence.
The Pali Canon is said to be the exact words of the Buddhas teachings, and was an oral transmission for over 500 years before it was written down. Is that factual, or based on myth?