Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
The more real things get, the more like myths they become.
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
When a person becomes a legend, the very thing that makes them human and knowable is killed off, so it's like being killed over and over and over again, for all eternity.
It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.
Sometimes legends find themselves remembered more for what they have not done than for their accomplishments. But those resume gaps can also help drive them to achieve even greater things in new arenas.
Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.