You mean the indiginous peoples mythology? the modern US has only religious mythology.
Nope, I mean the mythology around the founding fathers, the constitution, the early presidents; there is tons of the stuff, all over the place. You don't even know it is there, do you?
That is because mythology becomes part of people; if you cut their heads off, the mythology is written inside like lettering in a stick of rock.
What did people hundreds of years ago do? they spent most of their time thinking about food and working out ways to get it or preserve it, they worked very very hard and got very little in return, telling stories and dreaming were the only ways to get away from the drudgery of day to day living, stories were handed down and were embellished with every telling.
So, what has changed?
How many kinds of truth are there? don't forget the truth for the people then included magic and wizardry.
Now you are starting to ask sensible questions. Well done.
Unless you're very selective of the myths you believe (I assume you only believe the Christian myths) you could end up believing thousands from every country in the world.
Again, it depends what you mean by believe. Remember what I said myths are; they are the collective story of a people; where they came from, how they got here and where they are going. As such, yes, I believe them all.
This is not the same thing as saying that every single recorded incident in every mythology can be made to bears the the same kind of histrorical burden as every single recorded incident in yesterday's newspaper. Mostly whatever events prompted the creation of myth are too far distant to be reconstructed as history. Mythology is not history or journalism.
If you start to use language of 'belief' and 'non belief' of mythology, that only indicates that you really don't have much of a clue what mythology is.
So you want them to be true in order to give your life a richness it would not normally have had and to stop you being shallow, how about them being true or not? or is that not important?
See above.
Thanks for the suggestion that I am necessarily shallow, just because I am a believer. That is not the way to make friends.
Then again just because we believe something is true does not make it true, does it?
Indeed not. Which saying is a two edged sword.