Myths today aren’t as easily seen, but that does not mean they are any less important. In our world, the basis of everything we do comes from myths. Whether these myths have been proved true or false, we have learned from all of them. Many scientific discoveries were made off myths as well as many morals we still have today. Millions of myths that have circulated the minds of humans, some are similar to others while some are entirely new. One type of myth, that has been seen in many different ways, is the myth that “people aren't capable of doing something if others find it incomprehensible.” Whether this is crop circles, healing people or building anything large, most people in history assume it's caused by a supernatural and all-powerful force. …show more content…
They learned of new plants, animals, Indians and to their great surprise strangely shaped mounds. They studied these mounds and tried to figure out who built them, only to realise the only people around were the Indians, leaving the most “rational” explanation to be: “The mound builders were some non-Indian “race” from Europe, Asia, of Atlantis that built a magnificent empire in this hemisphere only to be overrun and obliterated by the ancestors of the “savage” native Americans. Therefore, there must have been a prehistoric people distinct from the ancestors of the Native Americans (Eisenberg).” This shows how little the settlers thought of the Native Americans and thus the myth of the moundbuilders