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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, belief in a sacred text certainly isn't a requirement for religion; as I said, most religions in the ancient world (Judaism bring the notable exception) were based on performing rituals, not on texts. And that's my point: that the body of literature that we call "Greek mythology" are not, and never were, religious texts.
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Sorry, my bad. Reading too fast, while absorbing too little.
You're quite right of course, today's Greek myths were certainly never religious texts of any kind, only morality tales and the like.