There's an article today on Red Orbit about scientists studying ancient mythology to find geological hot spots. Two of the examples given are scientists finding ancient fault lines from the story of the Oracle of Delphi, and geologists finding a new fault line from stories from the Duwamish people near Seattle.

I've often wondered why mythology and ancient stories are so readily thrown away by the mainstream. Even though many of the stories seem to tell of such fantastic stories that they're easy to ignore as pure fiction, most of them are at least based on facts. Many of these myths and stories contain ancient knowledge that has somehow been forgotten by modern humanity.

Over at the Book of THoTH, there's been a lot of mythology sources added to The Book, aka. The Leaves of Wisdom over the last few months. It's worth the time to read some of the fascinating stories and legends, and maybe you'll even learn something about the world while you're at it.