I would be, to Bulfinch and his peers, superstitious at best, felonious or treasonous at worst. Yet he is the main resource for discovering slowly and for myself who the ancient gods really are. In fact, even when I did practice the Christian faith, I considered it delusional to uphold the Bible as fact when it simply resonated with the mythological consciousness of many of the other world religions. Greek myths, and Roman were also intensely accurate and buildings and archaeology have been found to support their existence, yet I'm waiting to see someone go on a search for, say, Jason or the historical Hercules. Myth, as I have explained it, has truth in it that extends beyond any details of locale, names of geneaology.
Myths are reflective of the human experience, even the human experience of fantasy.
In cultures that do not distinguish between waking and dreaming, the fantastic things often described, such as turning maidens into trees or flying, or shapeshifting, are entirely possible. Myths are the doctrine of modern pagans, stories not intended as the final word on the truth of our lives but as an ancient record of the experiences and decisions of others. Myth is the link between them, the way humans know they are part of the greater God and still able to identify deity by deity as the forces most needed are called into the individual's life. To read a myth is a sacred act. To tell one, all the more sacred.