It's no different than those who believe in a god, or the bible, Jesus, Muhammed or any of the bronze age fairy tales.

This is the native Alaskan's fairy tales, they used them to explain natural phenomena or for those that needed it, a spiritual experience.

Religion, fairy tales, folk tales, they all served a purpose in primitive human cultures, but we no longer need them, however, there is no reason not to preserve the myths for historical purposes as they were very important to the lesser evolved primitive people, as long as people realize they are just that, myths.