Actually, i belive hero is greek. It means to be like the gods. In short, the anchient greeks celebrated excelence, if not necesarily in absokutes - a winner was a winner, and records of distances/times etc. were not maintained between olympics.

Now if I'm following you, its a question of those logovores that attempt to recreate a human society, and those that recreate a society seen in mythology. One type will recreate the life of Sweedes, and the other will simulate valhalla. Actually attempting to create or follow relgions is a secondary concern. Correct?

There is a fine line between hobby and obsession. I seem to have lost sight of it some time ago.