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	Euhemerism Encyclopedia Article @ Forbear.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cyrenaics, Euhemerism forged a new method of interpretation for the contemporary religious beliefs.
		eponymous chiefs and warriors, so, euhemerism claims, it is equally possible to see those gods as abstractions of the tribal ethos, personalized with names.
		Thus, while Snorri's euhemerism follows the early Christian tradition, the effect is not simply to discredit the divinity of the gods of a heathen religion on the wane, but (on the model of
	www.forbear.org /encyclopedia/Euhemerism (1287 words)

	Interpretations: Euhemerist Myth
		Euhemerism declares that myths are distorted accounts of historical events.
		The trouble with euhemerism is that it does not tolerate fantasy; it must explain it away.
		Euhemerism is perennial in the interpretation of folklore, and of Ibonia in particular.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~public/IBONIA/resources/euhemerist.html (898 words)

	Edward A. Beach: Excerpts from "The Potencies of God(s)" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Another allegoristic perspective on mythology that had many adherents was Euhemerism, the claim that myths recounted in exaggerated terms the exploits of former heroes, geniuses, or chieftains.
		It is important also to notice the strategies of argument that Schelling directed specifically against naturalism and Euhemerism, for these strategies shed much light both on the central reasons for his rejection of allegorism and on his conception of how genuine symbols function.
		Schelling's criticisms of both naturalism and Euhemerism implicitly presupposed that the true essence of religious experience consists in the encounter with an actually divine being or beings.
	www.uwec.edu /beachea/models.htm (8090 words)

	Lakes Region of Maine, USA
		Euhemerism is named after a Greek mythographer, Euhemerus (fl.c.300BC), who theorized that the Greek gods originated from the elaboration of earlier traditions about distinguished historical humans.
		Simply stated, euhemerism is the story-telling process of developing a sand-grain of fact into a pearl of fancy / fantasy.
		Euhemerism easily can taint earlier Oral Traditions to the point of spoiling their original integrity, and produce misleading oral and written neotraditions too.
	lakesregionofmaine.gen.me.us /sebago_anthro/6_propernames/notes/6_note.html (457 words)

	Indra and Other Vedic Deities
		It explores the rationale behind the euhemerism and the historicity of events leading to their mythologization.
		Uma Chakravarty's book investigates this phenomenon of euhemerism: the deification of historical personages, from among the divinities of Vedic writings.
		It is the first, all-exclusive study to look into the evolution of euhemeristic deities of the Vedic period and how these mortals-turned-gods came to have varying deific positions on the hierarchic scale of the Vedic pantheon.
	www.exoticindiaart.com /book/details/IDD124 (397 words)

	Euhemerism Is Superstition
		This sort of euhemerism, "naturalizing" a diety as one's own provincial kinsman, is a bigoted affront to both the Mystery of Universal Brotherhood and the divine mystery.
		Ironically, Christians later used euhemerism in several attempts to discredit pagan cults, claiming that since the pagan gods were merely historical figures, they were not truly divine.
		In the meanwhile, the Church continued its campaign of subordinating the Jesus of visionary initiation to the Jesus of official fable and concocted history.
	www.hermetic.com /dionysos/euhem.htm (635 words)

	euhemerism
		For example, he believed that Zeus was a chieftain who led his people into battle against a group led by a chieftain named Kronos.
		Today, euhemerism often is used to refer to the idea that a myth may have general roots in historical events.
		For example, Zeus's defeat of Kronos may reflect the arrival of the Greeks and their dominance over the indigenous population.
	www.unlv.edu /faculty/jmstitt/Eng480/euhemerism.html (109 words)

	Capture, Conversion, Marriage and Death: The Pocahontas Story and the Decline of Tsenacomoco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		First there is Euhemerism where a colonel of truth is embellished in layers of folklore and second there is misplaced concreteness where an abstraction is masked in the illusion of fact.
		As I have suggested, the "rescue" is itself a fantasy where the Pocahontas of a John Smith romance is misplaced concreteness.
		Finally as a victim of disease, she expired on foreign shores exemplifying the legacy of biological terrorism that fuelled the Conquest of the Americas.
	h05.cgpublisher.com /proposals/555/index_html (539 words)

	Mythology - MSN Encarta
		Their explanations included historical evolutionary theories—that human culture evolved from an early state of ignorance and irrationality to the modern culture of rationality—with myths seen as products of the early ages of ignorance and irrationality.
		Myths were also thought to result from euhemerism, that is, the divinizing of the heroic virtues of a human being.
		More important than any one theory of mythology, however, was the development of systematic disciplines devoted to the study of mythology.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552210_2/Mythology.html (1149 words)

	Top Rated: euhemerism - iKarma
		The following is a list of people who have been tagged as euhemerism.
		By default the list is sorted by how many people have tagged them as euhemerism, followed by how high of a rating they have.
		If you feel that you provide a service that should be listed in this category, join our service today and tag yourself as euhemerism.
	www.ikarma.com /tag/euhemerism (78 words)

	Glorantha Digest: Euhemerism, Brithini and Vadeli
		>This is euhemerization again, defined as the idea that the legends of
		euhemerism occurs in Glorantha (the Red Goddess, the False Gods of
		Euhemerism should not exist in Glorantha is a tad sweeping IMO.
	glorantha.temppeli.org /digest/gd2/1995.09/0566.html (749 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I will provide characterizations for terms from the following list, which will be available on the exam as a word bank.
		Be prepared to write on how different theoretical approaches (euhemerism, ethnic euhemerism, unilinear cultural evolution, psychoanalysis, analytic psychology, structuralism) answer the two basic issues in mythological study: that of multiple occurrence, that of irrationality.
		I will choose one of the issues and two or three of the approaches for your essay.
	www.clt.astate.edu /wclement/FLGUIDE3.HTM (175 words)

	King Arthur and the Cymry Heroes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The heroes of the Cymry Celtic myths do have some elements of reality under their belts, but the borders between history and legend are often blurred.
		The word "euhemerism" refers to situations were the gods or demigods of mythology were really deified human beings, whose stories gained a massive status.
		Also there is the notion that myths can sometimes be traditional accounts of real people and events, which over time have gained in immensity.
	www.homestead.com /opossumsally/KingArthur.html (2587 words)

	Mythology: Doorway of the Shaman - HazelThorne Discussion Notes
		Myth is the shaman’s power base as it sustains the drive and power of the shaman’s service to himself and others.
		Euhemerism: myth is successfully distorted of the real.
		Natural: explanation is earnest attempt to explain the mysterious.
	www.bsu.edu /classes/magrath/305s02/onmyth.html (3038 words)

	Legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		To take an example, myths surrounding Cadmus, a Phoenician immigrant credited with bringing the alphabet and other Near Eastern culture to Bronze Age Greece, may have begun as a series of legends gathering around the memory of the historical founder of certain coastal cities in Greece.
		Explaining the origins of myth as former historical legends in this fashion is termed "euhemerism".
		A Legend or Legend fragment is a meme that propagates through a culture.
	legend.iqnaut.net (895 words)

	Historiography and nationalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		All these processes are summarized under the term ethnogenesis: Since ethnicity is a construct of social consensus, ethnic identity cannot outlast the group's collective memory.
		In ancient times, ethnicities often derived their or their rulers' origin from divine or semi-divine founders of a mythical past (for example, the Anglo-Saxons deriving their dynasties from Woden; see also Euhemerism).
		In extreme cases, nationalists will ignore the process of ethnogenesis altogether and claim ethnic identity of their own group with some scarcely attested ancient ethnicity known to scholarship by the chances of textual transmission or archaeological excavation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Historiography_and_nationalism (925 words)

	Joseph Campbell Foundation Forums - View Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Better than a thousand useless words is one word that gives peace.- Buddha Let yourself be free.
		Are you familiar with the theory of myth attributed to Euhemer?
		Thought you might find euhemerism of interest in light of your question.
	www.jcf.org /forum/viewtopic.php?topic=2192&forum=27&11 (3381 words)

	Page 198 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is beyond belief that Euhemerism was so old as to have become the subject of so early priestly falsification, which, moreover, reverses the course of history.
		When to Euhemerism is added so late a theory as the eclectic employed in this narrative, the ascription of so great an antiquity falls to the ground of its own weight.
		It still remains to ask whether Philo reproduced the work of a man much later in history.
	www.ccel.org /s/schaff/encyc/encyc10/htm-old/0216=198.htm (815 words)

	Amazon.fr : Judaism in the Theology of Sir Isaac Newton: Livres en anglais: Matt Goldish,M. Goldish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Newton, who probably never met a Jew, nevertheless invested heavily in Jewish studies, which left their mark on all areas of Newtonian theology: the investigations of early religion, scriptural prophecy, Trinitarianism, the early church, and the corruption of primitive Christianity.
		In the course of this study, important aspects of Newton's thought are clarified, such as his relationship with the Church of England, his understanding of biblical authority, and his Euhemerism.
		Not only Newton specialists, but all those interested in the early-Enlightenment universe of Newtonian thought, or in the impact of Hebraic studies on Western ideas, will find much food for thought here.
	www.amazon.fr /Judaism-Theology-Sir-Isaac-Newton/dp/0792349962 (404 words)

	Euhemerus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He was the first to try to link mythical beings and events with historical fact, explaining the gods as distorted representations of ancient warriors and heroes.
		His name lives on in the term Euhemerism.
		Someone should attempt a Euhemerism of the bible.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~rob/Euhemerus.html (78 words)

	DuVernois Blog: Coming across old posts to UseNet
		Never thought at the time (1991-1995) that these would still be here.
		d...@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (dolan andrew patrick) writes: >I have heard a bit about Euhemerism, the basic premise of which is that the >myths are just distorted recollections of actual historical persons whose deeds >have acquired a supernatural aura with the [passage of thousands of years.
		>I have heard a bit about Euhemerism, the basic premise of which is that the
	blog.lib.umn.edu /duver001/nwn/024247.html (460 words)

	euhemerism - Dictionnaire Français-Anglais WordReference.com
		We found no English translation for 'euhemerism' in our French to English Dictionary.
		Or did you want to translate 'euhemerism' from English to French?
		Forum discussions with the word(s) 'euhemerism' in the title:
	www.wordreference.com /fren/euhemerism (41 words)

	Seattle Singles. Themselves is the euhemerism we did that point. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	[No title]
		-Stephen Hawking euhemerism (yoo-HEE-muh-riz-uhm, -HEM-) noun A theory attributing the origin of the gods to the deification of historical heroes.
		[After Euhemerus, fourth-century BCE Greek philosopher.] "The Euhemerism of later scholiasts derived the name from a king Adrastos, who was said to have been the first to build a temple to Nemesis, and so the power thus worshipped was called after his name." Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound: Part II., Great Works of Literature, 1 Jan 1992.
		One who sailed with Jason on the Argo in search of the Golden Fleece.
	wordsmith.org /awad/archives/0799 (2996 words)

	2 - Converted
		- Euhemerus (IV B.C.) - Euhemerism: gods once were humans.
		Euhemerus (IV B.C.) offered a very sensible interpretion of gods as ancient kings and celebrities, worshipped post mortem.
		This coined the term Euhemerism - a view that reconciles the literal and critical approaches to traditional stories.
	mason.gmu.edu /~oarans/theor.html (1725 words)

	Crosswalk.com
		Once again, `Antony's shame of the body is not in the spirit of the writer ad Amunem' (Gwatkin, Studies, p.
		Lastly, in Antony's account of the heathen gods (§76) we miss the characteristic Euhemerism of Athanasius (see supra, pp.
		Throughout, in fact, the ruder monastic instinct crops up from under the Athanasian style and thought of the biographer.
	bible.crosswalk.com /History/AD/EarlyChurchFathers/Post-Nicene/Athanasius/view.cgi?file=npnf2-04-37.htm&size=20&start=22706 (1021 words)

	myth handout 9/1
		Structuralist: conflict of male/female powers of reproduction, strength; resolution by unification in a single body
		Summarize (in a sentence or two each) the viewpoints of psychoanalysis, structuralism, functionalism, Euhemerism with regard to mythology.
		Give an example of a myth and its interpretation for each of these.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/nestor/handout_1-21.html (1019 words)

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