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Way-ull - a lot of the Greek concepts half-inched by the New Testament are Platonic and post-Platonic, rather than concerned with Greek religious practice. Most obviously, Christ is a vegetative deity. I'm not pulling up any trees here... Christ dies and is reborn in planting season. Attis is maybe a good comparison point, or Adonis. No worries so far... and likewise the vegetative god dies once, but that death is recreated on a yearly basis.
Ont he other hand, Christ and Christianity is based on some kind of eschaton. Opinions differ as to just what sort of eschaton - whether the world will end, whether everyone is judged at the same time, or whether everybody encounters their own personal apocalypse. But in any case you don't get quite the same thing in Greek mythology - the dead die, and they stay dead, and they wander about kvetching about all the fun the living are having, with a few exeptions. The earth goes through a series of cycles, the only constant being that the people in the previous cycle were probably having more fun...
Of course, it is no more a unity than Christianity... |
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