I wonder, further, that if it is not only different myths but different interpretations of the myths that lead to different outcomes (under the assumption, of course, that those interpretations are guided from above, rather than from below). As I've noted before, the Isis and Demeter myths have identical structures, but the philosophers interpreted Persephone as the exile-and-return of the individual soul, while the Egyptians had no such interpretation, so far as I can tell, for Horos. But is that wrong? On Apollo's authority, it clearly worked out okay for Puthagoras, Platon, and Plotinos; and while I have no such authority for the many, many, Christian saints since then, I see no reason to think it didn't work for them, either!

That is all to say, I'm inclined to think that different Shepherds are happy to use the same tools in different ways...