Mythology was never intended to be taken literally.
Most common problems between human beings can be boiled down to semantics problems – a sickness of words. A poor conveyance of truth.
There’s a reason why we hold in such high esteem the reliability of a man to be “good as his word”. Our lives and safety can depend on it. So we symbolize our reverence for this character ideal by anthropomorphizing it – we turn the word into a person, so we can create memorable stories using his ideal, if fictitious, behavior as a role model.
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”