See, that's how I am too.

I've come to enjoy Marvel's 'Thor' series because it isn't an exact retelling of the mythology: it takes elements of it and makes it its own. Walt Simonson's run was probably the truest to the mythology for the most part, but it wasn't verbatim either.

And really, that's what I LOVE about all stories based upon all religions: pantheistic or monotheistic. They all have the same stories, but everyone tells it a little differently.