#they arent a single holy book theyre acknowledged as written by people

[percabeth4life]

I saw someone compare Greek Myths to DC comics:

Every one creates stories for the characters, even if that contradicts what was said before

That's not how the myths work. A lot of people had different beliefs and interpretations.

The Greeks did not have one unified belief across the city states, they were like a bunch of small kingdoms with the same general belief but different specifics.

So there are different myths from the different places and time periods because beliefs evolved differently over time and in different places.

Some of the myths we read were written literally thousands of years apart.

Greek existed for a long time so their beliefs varied over that time. If you want really complicated history check out the Egyptians, they were around even longer and their myths are even more detailed and complicated but also don't have nearly as much research put into accessible forms for us to learn more.

The Romans had a different religion altogether and they made new myths of the Greeks too (Ovid shut up) that mixed up people's beliefs even more.