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  2. Dying-and-rising god - Wikipedia

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    The term "dying god" is associated with the works of James Frazer, [4] Jane Ellen Harrison, and their fellow Cambridge Ritualists. [16] At the end of the 19th century, in their The Golden Bough [4] and Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, Frazer and Harrison argued that all myths are echoes of rituals, and that all rituals have as their primordial purpose the manipulation of natural ...

  3. Resurrection - Wikipedia

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    With the advent of written records, the earliest known recurrent theme of resurrection was in Egyptian and Canaanite religions, which had cults of dying-and-rising gods such as Osiris and Baal. Ancient Greek religion generally emphasised immortality , but in the mythos, a number of individuals were made physically immortal as they were ...

  4. Category:Life-death-rebirth gods - Wikipedia

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    Gods depicted as dying-and-rising deities, deities who die and are then resurrected. Subcategories. This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total. ...

  5. Liminal deity - Wikipedia

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    A liminal deity is a god or goddess in mythology who presides over thresholds, gates, or doorways; "a crosser of boundaries". [1] These gods are believed to oversee a state of transition of some kind; such as, the old to the new, the unconscious to the conscious state, the familiar to the unknown.

  6. Universal resurrection - Wikipedia

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    General resurrection or universal resurrection is the belief in a resurrection of the dead, or resurrection from the dead (Koine: ἀνάστασις [τῶν] νεκρῶν, anastasis [ton] nekron; literally: "standing up again of the dead" [1]) by which most or all people who have died would be resurrected (brought back to life).

  7. Jesus in comparative mythology - Wikipedia

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    The main examples of "dying-and-rising gods" discussed by Frazer were the Mesopotamian god Dumuzid/Tammuz, his Greek equivalent Adonis, the Phrygian god Attis, and the Egyptian god Osiris. [204] [207] [208] Dumuzid/Tammuz was a god of Sumerian origin associated with vegetation and fertility who eventually came to be worshipped across the Near ...