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	Sacred king - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He came into being in the spring, reigned during the summer, and ritually died at harvest time, only to be reborn at the winter solstice to wax and rule again.
		The spirit of vegetation was therefore a "dying and reviving god." Osiris, Adonis, Dionysus, Attis and many other familiar figures from Greek mythology and classical antiquity were re-interpreted in this mold.
		All manner of traditions were interpreted as representing fragments of the unitary myth of a dying and reviving god, and the human king/victim who was his earthly representative or substitute.
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	Life-death-rebirth deity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Already in antiquity, the rationalizing approach of Aristotle could be elaborated to a rigidly naturalistic interpretation of myth origins as explanations of natural seasonal phenomena.
		On the other hand a god like Osiris, whose functions relate to crops and the dead rather than spices and love, would call for a very different interpretation, despite the common theme of having died.
		The putative existence of a universal dying-and-rising god motif, and the particular existence of mystery religions concerned with dying and rising gods around the Mediterranean Sea (e.g.
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	Golden Bough Chapter 43. Dionysus.
		Like other gods of vegetation Dionysus was believed to have died a violent death, but to have been brought to life again; and his sufferings, death, and resurrection were enacted in his sacred rites.
		On a red-figured vase the god is portrayed as a calf-headed child seated on a woman’s lap.
		The advance of thought tends to strip the old animal and plant gods of their bestial and vegetable husk, and to leave their human attributes (which are always the kernel of the conception) as the final and sole residuum.
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	Deity Temple, Room 3 - The Phoenician Deities
		As far as we can tell, most cities had a God and a Goddess who were the patron/ matron deities of the city and their primary focus of worship, although this may not always have been the case.
		She is associated at Tyre with the god Melqart; at Sidon with ´Eshmun.
		As Ba`al Hammon or Ba`al Khamon, he is the chief Carthaginian god of sky and vegetation, depicted as a bearded older man with curling ram's horns, perhaps a merging of ´El and Ba`al.
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	Images of Sarmatian deities and the Osset epos.
		He/she is the god - patron of agriculture Wacilla" (Jatsenko, 1992.
		Wacilla was not the god of agriculture and the bull not his symbol (though in some traditions, for exemplare - Scandinavian and Hurrite ones the ram and the bull nevertheless accompany of the God of Thunder, that, probably to explain as a case of inversion).
		The attention absence in the Scythian pantheon of the God of Thunder and the God of Earth Powers and accent for an image of the Cultural Hero (whether it be images of Kolaksay in anthropomorphic art or a deer pays to itself within the framework of animal style).
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	Learn more about Sky Father in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In Anglo-Saxon mythology, the god Tiwaz was venerated as the Sky Father.
		Sky Father or Heavenly Father is one term for the god of Christianity in China and the Chinese language.
		During the process, it was believed that the invaders devalued the status of women and replaced a matriarchy with a patriarchy.
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	Spero Forum - Baptist, Protestant, and Catholic Discussion - True Myth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Therefore, it is true, not in the sense of being a description of God (that no finite mind would take in) but in the sense of being the way in which God chooses to appear to our faculties.
		gandalf may have died and risen but he is not the king, the king truly returns yet he is not the messiah, frodo carries the weight of the world but even he is no saviour,, gollum seems a judas, yet accidentally destroys the ring.
		The White Witch is not quite Satan, for she dies and other evils plague Narnia instead; she is not quite the Law, although she was the Emperor's executioner.
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	Mythological images of Slavic gods 3.
		Evolution of the God of Thunder in the hero, certainly, is not absolutely typical (usually a prototype of late heroes of the epos our initial type of the Cultural Hero) naturally serves.
		He was popular and considered as the god of "all Russia" in counterbalance Perun - to the patron of a princely warriors.
		When gods have suffered defeat in struggle against demons, Nurystan goddess Zhivud has brought the huge bull with which help the gods have got the victory (Myths of nations of the world, 1998, v.
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	New Golden Bough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		He would be not merely exercising the functions of a god; he would be himself the god in his immediate, as distinct from his continuous, aspect.
		For in that case, the periodic passion and revival of Osiris (the latter, of course, in the person of his successor, Horus) will indeed epitomize the periodic eclipse and revival of communal life, the role of the king being, as Frazer has made abundantly plain, primarily to typify that life.
		Frazer’s concept of the Dying and Reviving God has exercised a profound influence upon historians of literature; for attempts have been made to recognize in (or behind) certain established genres of composition the essential structure of a seasonal myth embodying the theme of the dying and Reviving God.
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	Touchstone Archives: The Mythic Christ
		As a rationalist, she thinks the gods exist only in the realm of the imagination, and yet she blames them for causing human suffering and her personal misery.
		Since the god advises Orual, “You also shall be Psyche,” she is set to experience the same blessedness that results from partaking of the divine nature (2 Pet.
		Psyche’s self-offering as a propitiatory victim to the gods and Orual’s fulfilment of burdensome tasks for her sister constitute a shadowy preface to Christ’s great act of atonement for humanity’s sake, the sacrifice, as St. Paul says, that put an end to all sacrifices (Rom.
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	British-Israel.us - Lesson 17 - What's Wrong With EASTER?
		Hence the sentence "these are your gods" in referring to one calf.
		Tertullian defended Catholicism by saying to the pagans, "The origin of your gods is derived from figures moulded on a cross.
		This is one reason God commanded the nation of Israel to destroy the Canaanites (Deut.18:10-12).
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	I'll Dance for You in Words... - Gasienica-Byrcyn
		Her poems are youthful, sensual, and delicate—like the poet herself, who died at the age of 32 of congenital heart disease, remaining forever young, lively, expressive, and springlike in the memory of her friends, critics and readers.
		Moreover, her words, her love and her yearning represent a desire that never dies and is renewed like the moon: "quick stream carries my words/ carries my words/ and all of them tell about my love/ my yearning/ my desire renewed like the moon" (Jeszcze 100).
		The perilous journey thorough her contemplation, studies and imagination leads the poet to the act of writing, the magical act of leaving a trace.
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	Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough
		Moreover, the explanation is countenanced by a considerable body of opinion amongst the ancients themselves, who again and again interpreted the dying and reviving god as the reaped and sprouting grain.
		In describing the rites and sacrifices observed at the different seasons of the year by the heathen Syrians of Harran, he says: “Tammuz (July).
		In the middle of this month is the festival of el-Bûgât, that is, of the weeping women, and this is the Tâ-uz festival, which is celebrated in honour of the god Tâ-uz.
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	Scythian-Sarmatian mythological images.
		Memory that the wolf is the immemorial opponent of the God of Earth Powers and the henchman of the God of the Thunder here has had an effect.
		Pious centaur Hiron was the tutor of many the hero (Tesey, Iason, Dioscuri), the god of medicine Asclepius and Heracles's and Prometey's friend, being in opposition Zeus (the given collision corresponds to close relations of the God of Earth Powers and the Cultural Hero.
		It is interesting, that at south-east coast of Spain the stone sculptures of deers made by ancient Iberians, and all in the typical sacrificial pose (also images of the sphynxes are found in the same place- the Iberian religion belonged to the Mediterranean world).
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	Kris McAbee
		The "Dying God" is of particular significance; his unmistakable relationship to the priest-king and Fisher King figures set him up as a human manifestation for the land itself.
		Again, his dying correlates with the wasting away of the land, but, here, his death is more purgative as exemplified by the fact that his followers actually kill him.
		Ultimately, Frazer asserts the connection between these primitive vegetative cults and the Christian religion; the dying and reviving god as seen in Jesus Christ, along with other ceremonies and beliefs, are derivations from the original traditions held by these cults.
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	Thales of Miletus [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		The question of whether Thales endowed the gods with a role in his theories is fundamental to his hypotheses.
		With the exception of gods in the scheme of things, these passages reflect the beliefs which formed the Thalean hypothesis, but Plato did not have the Athenian Stranger attribute the crucial clause 'all things are full of gods' to Thales.
		Through their association they comprised the Milesian School: They all worked on similar problems, the nature of matter and the nature of change, but they each proposed a different material as the primary principle, which indicates that there was no necessity to follow the master's teachings or attribute their discoveries to him.
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	Stage Review: Kuntu rewrites Isis myth with 'Graffiti'
		In what little I know of ancient Egyptian mythology, Osiris is variously judge of the dead, creator, god of the Nile, husband of Isis and constant foe of evil in the form of Set, his brother or son.
		Most important, he is slain but returns to life -- a dying and reviving god like Adonis and Christ -- and he is revenged by Horus (the hawk figure).
		He is the future, the dying and reviving hope of the new generation, the fulfillment of the recurring myth.
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		God has already expressed in a language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection.
		The image in both works depicts the proper approach to the gods as impersonal, through the set formulas of organized religion in its least lively and living form, and in both cases that way is shown to be limited and inadequate.
		Lewis affirms that one must encounter the gods in a personal way, face to face; and one cannot do so while wearing masks of conventionality, deception, or pride.
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	The Infinite Matrix \| Howard Waldrop \| Week 1
		Roberts by Thomas Heggen was a dying-and-reviving god vegetation myth, right up there with Tammuz and Osiris and so on an so forth....
		You got your vengeful god (captain, in the Set role), a hardass disciplinarian whose rule is symbolized by the palm-tree given him, which he tends.
		After this act of rebellion, and further trials, Roberts finally gets his transfer to the Big War on a fighting ship and the Captain gets a new palm-tree and is as much as a hardass as he was before, without the ameliorating influence of a Roberts.
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	JR R Tolkein, CS Lewis and the power of the myth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Again, that the idea of the dying and reviving god similarly moved me provided I met it anywhere except in the Gospels.
		These were events which really happened in space and time, as did the events of the Gospels, through which God was demonstrating that he is not a remote powerless deity, but is actively involved in his creation and able to move in history and establish a living relationship with people on the earth.
		This is not of course the same as heaven where God is, but is the invisible realm, from where Satan now exercises power on the earth.
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	Pontifications » Blog Archive » Is the “spirit of Vatican II” Christian? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In the quirkiness of God’s providence, Vatican II occurred right at the beginning of a cultural revolution in the West and the spirit of this revolution flooded through the doors that the council opened.
		A further reason is that, for the present, the divine splendor of God’s children lies dormant in them as in a bud or seed, to burst forth into full magnificence only on the other side of the grave.
		God’s Word is spoken in other ways elsewhere, indeed is spoken in all things, and its specifically “fleshly” (human and historical) and “eschatological” manifestation in the unfolding of the Jesus story should not be divorced from these wider contexts.
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	Coca-Cola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However Coca-Cola Classic is not the true old formula, as it introduced high fructose corn syrup as a substitute to sugar.
		Coca-Cola has in particular been the target of urban legends decrying the drink for its supposedly copious amounts of acid (its pH value of 2.5 is midway between vinegar and gastric acid), or the "life-threatening" effects of its carbonated water.
		These urban legends usually take the form of "fun facts" — for example, "highway troopers use Coke to clean blood from highways after accidents," "somebody once died in a Coke-drinking competition," or "Coke can dissolve a tooth overnight." All of these claims are false.
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	Gasienica-Byrcyn
		The poet enacts the myth by applying an array of archetypal patterns, which intertwine the opposite forces of love and death, sacred and profane, good and evil, flesh and spirit, fleeting and eternal.
		Her inner self turns into a tree, the symbol of knowledge of good and evil, the metaphor of her poetics and her poetical tradition.
		The poet/the dancing goddess becomes the Dying/Reviving God who in her dance of life searches for the golden bough, or the fern blossom, the symbol of the poetic wisdom and creativity.
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		I like it very much and was mysteriously moved by it: again, that the idea of the dying and reviving god (Balder, Adonis, Bacchus) similarly moved me provided I met it anywhere except in the Gospels.
		The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history.
		It should be noted that on this view (a) Just as God, in becoming Man, is 'emptied' of His glory, so the truth, when it comes down from the 'heaven' of myth to the 'earth' of history, undergoes a certain humiliation.
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	Jesus and Yahweh \| Z
		There is a theological or Hellenistic mystery, dying and reviving God named Jesus Christ, and there is the non-theological God, the human, all too human original God of the Tanakh, or Hebrew Old Testament...
		There is a theological, or Hellenistic mystery dying and reviving God named Jesus Christ, and there is the non- theological God, the human, all-too-human original God of the Tanakh, or Hebrew Old Testament.
		He is a faithful Jew, and however he lived and died, he dies faithful to the law of Moses and to the worship of Yahweh.
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	Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick \| Dying and resurrecting god (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		By the twentieth century, this spiritualized turn to the universal-dying-god hypothesis had made its way into the sunlit uplands of academic discourse.
		Osiris, Dionysus, Attis), has led some observers to speculate that Jesus Christ, rather than being a historical person, was in fact a syncretizing development of this archetype.
		For example, although Dionysus shared some interesting characteristics with Christ, he was on the other hand a hedonistic and bacchanalian god.
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	The Scholar's Tale (Notes) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The bishops wrote that the Bible "is God's word expressed in human language," that it is true in passages relating to human salvation, but we "should not expect total accuracy from the Bible in other, secular matters" (Gledhill 2005).
		Baal, a dying and reviving god of fertility and the storm, was called Rider of the Clouds, an image later applied to Yahweh (Ps.
		29 Creationist leader Henry Morris called evolution a "cruel spectacle" (1978, 73)--evolutionists should "leave God out of it" (1982b, 44)--while a life-quenching flood is seen rather as "sovereign destruction" (1978, 33) by a God admired as "a consuming fire" (1984a, 211, quoting Hebrews 12:29).
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	The Tower of Babel and Babylon, Gilgamesh, Ningizzida, Gudea
		Babel, Tower of (babel, gate of God), Babylon, the Greek form of the Hebrew word bavel, which is closely allied and probably derived from the Akkadian babilu or "gate of God." The date of its foundation is still disputed.
		In the Middle East, Dumuzi, "Son of the Abyss," the ever-dying, ever-reviving Sumerian prototype of the resurrected savior, was a harvest god of ancient Mesopotamia, Sumerian god of vegetation and the under-world.
		A cylinder seal from Erech, end of the fourth century B.C., depicts the god Tammuz (a fertility god widely worshipped in Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine) feeding the cattle of the temple.
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