The Oral Tale
Mythos, especially in the form of dramatic narratives ex-plaining the origin and operation of the universe and the place of humans within it, is, in the early stages of humanity, a common medium to express the communal fund of wisdom that, together with rituals and ethics, shapes the social reality and is in turn shaped by it.
403 Forbidden
Just because the written word is currently the most dependable record of the stories our ancestors told doesn’t mean there aren’t other stories.