Wooden People Mythology

Are great myths merely silly, superstitious tales, or do they give us insights into the nature of our world? Most myths are superstitious tales, an example of one is “The Wooden People” by the Mayan. It was about people who is made out of wood who killed animals. They pounded them to the bone and tendons, crashed their faces, and ate them. Everything talked to them their water jars, their tortilla griddles, their plates, their days , literally everything which seem far fetched.
In this mythological story many situations happens that no one would expect to ever happen in real live. The wooden people dogs and turkeys talked to them and basically told them that they’re going to eat them like they have all the animals and do it by beating them