It has been many, many millennia. Stories change over time- especially when a lot of the earliest tellings were by word of mouth. Details are lost and changed through each retelling.

[Made all the more complicated by the gods themselves not remembering everything right. Enough lives pass by and the oldest of their memories are lost. ]

...Hah, that is true. Interesting. I never thought I might get different abilities from the ones I have- I've always been a flora girl. But who knows! I might be surprised!