[Soliton]

Like most ancient pagan peoples, the Greeks viewed the myths about their gods to exist outside of the "profane" time which we experience daily. For them, the myths represented "sacred time"

First, that makes no difference to the point we are discussing. Second, you also believe, do you not, that your God lived in a special time before time and later during a time when a day could be a thousand years? Don't you believe that Jesus existed before the universe existed? Besides, your point doesn't pertain to Hercules, and the Greeks thought their gods existed concurrent with their own existence, hence all of the sacrificing and praying.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

First, that makes no difference to the point we are discussing.

Well, yes it does, because you are trying to draw a parallel between the myths about Hercules, and the Gospel accounts of Jesus, as if these were of the same charactre and class. They are not. Jesus is accessible to history, while Hercules is not.

Second, you also believe, do you not, that your God lived in a special time before time and later during a time when a day could be a thousand years? Don't you believe that Jesus existed before the universe existed?

That's irrelevant because God, in Judeo-Christian theology, deals with man in terms of "profane time". Yes, there is a point at which God/Jesus existed before time, since He existed "before" creation (if time-suggestive words can even apply to this case), but again, that has nothing to do with "sacred time". Per the very nature of the term, "sacred time" suggests TIME, suggesting that there is still some passage of time in the mythophorous "sacred time" (even if that passage is circular and repetitive, rather than linear as we understand it). Since the scenario you've asked me about believing would logically posited that no such thing as "time" yet existed, then there is no logical connexion of it with "sacred time".

Besides, your point doesn't pertain to Hercules, and the Greeks thought their gods existed concurrent with their own existence, hence all of the sacrificing and praying.

Of course they sacrificed and engaged in other rituals. That was how they were attempting to interact with "sacred time". That has nothing to do, however, with the difference between sacred time and profane time as it pertains to Christianity.