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The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors - : Christianity before Christ (Paperback)
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The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors - : Christianity before Christ (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 880
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CONTAINING NEW, STARTLING, AND EXTRAORDINARY REVELATIONS IN
RELIGIOUS HISTORY, WHICH DISCLOSE THE ORIENTAL ORIGIN OF ALL THE
DOCTRINES, PRINCIPLES, PRECEPTS, AND MIRACLES OF THE CHRISTIAN NEW
TESTAMENT AND FURNISHING A KEY FOR UNLOCKING MANY OF ITS SACRED
MYSTERIES, BESIDES COMPRISING THE HISTORY OF 16 HEATHEN CRUCIFIED
GODS This is one of the most controversial books about the
Christian narrative of Jesus ever published. Graves tried to gather
together all of what was known at the time about other similar
stories of gods who walked the earth, preached ethical and mystical
doctrines, and ended up as deicides. Today, folklorists have
discovered a set of world-wide themes relating a story of a
culture-hero who has a miraculous birth and tragic death. This is
one of the archetypal stories which Jung and Campbell discussed. It
is now considered less shocking that incidents in religious
narrative could be drawn from the global bank of folklore motifs.
This does not lessen the impact, however, on traditional believers
in these narratives as the absolute truth. So is the need for a
deathless hero who saves humanity part of the deep structure of our
brain? Is religion simply filling a psychological need which is
part of being human? This book may be picked apart in its details;
however, it was one of the first to explore this 'big' question, an
answer to which is as pressing today as it was then. The World's
Sixteen Crucified Saviors raised a host of questions, few of which
have yet been adequately answered, over a century later. There are
serious flaws in this book. Graves was apparently not working from
original sources, with the exception of the Bible; he seems to have
relied on books such as Higgins' Anacalypsis, without necessarily
citing them. He muddles Vaishnava Hinduism and Buddhism, two belief
systems with fundamental differences. That said, the traditional
narratives of Krishna and Buddha do contain motifs in common with
the NT stories of Jesus.
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