maybe i can form my thoughts better later but i have to get this out now; the myths ARE relevant in helpol, you don't have to be a mythic literalist or anything and in fact people indeed can and do take it too far, HOWEVER -
they detail the aspects of the universe, what place the gods, daimones, and important mortals have. the stories tell important lessons, such as don't succumb to hubris and impossible pride. even the basic ones detail why the gods have that place in the universe. like after the titanomachy how zeus got the sky, poseidon got the ocean, and hades got the underworld.
then there's also different cosmogonies like orphism where the idea is venerating figures who have gone down to and come back from the underworld, like orpheus himself. its myths are also different
and that's not even getting into the thing i always say about aphrodite's parentage, because she's a daughter of ouranos by hesiod but by zeus and dione by homer (and in fact goes to complain to her mother after diomedes stabs her in the iliad) (dione is a titaness)
so i guess my whole point here is. myths ARE important. we cannot just fully ignore them. i am not saying you have to believe in them or even believe they literally happened (we don't know), but they DO have a place within hellenic polytheism.
