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Pagan Christs

John Robertson

出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016-08-23
主題	Religion / Comparative Religion
ISBN	15370843999781537084398
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7rNOvgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

J.M. Robertson herein challenges not only the historical authenticity of the canonical accounts of the founding of Christianity, but also Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, and Judaism. He answers the question implicit in Kersey Graves' 1875 creed, The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors. Why so many similar stories of savior figures in world religion? At the dark heart of this mystery, according to Robinson, is a prehistoric drama involving human sacrifice (particularly, of children), cannibalism, and regicide. As time passed, the rituals were softened, and turned into symbolic equivalents, while retaining the tragic end of the narrative. Robertson pulls in historic, ethnographic and folklore data from hundreds of carefully cited sources. He covers examples from antiquity such as Mithraism, Manichaeism, and Apollonius of Tyana. In the final section he universalizes his study and focuses on Native America, particularly the Aztec. The conclusions of this book remain highly controversial, but the sheer mass of evidence accumulated demands consideration.