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Some scholars of comparative mythology identify both Dionysus and Jesus with the dying-and-rising god mythological archetype. [346] On the other hand, it has been noted that the details of Dionysus' death and rebirth are starkly different both in content and symbolism from Jesus.
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The German historian of religion Martin Hengel notes that the Hellenized Syrian satirist Lucian of Samosata ("the Voltaire of antiquity"), in his comic dialogue Prometheus, written in the second century AD (about two hundred years after Jesus), describes the god Prometheus being fastened to two rocks in the Caucasus Mountains using all the ...
In Carlos Diegues' 2003 movie Deus é Brasileiro, God is a down-to-Earth character, exhausted from his labours, who is resting in the northeast of Brazil. [2] God as a character is often mentioned or intervenes in the plot of the CW show Supernatural, and eventually served as the series' ultimate villain. He seems as a loving, smart, serious ...
Many katabatic figures (including Hercules, Dionysus, and Jesus Christ) also undergo apotheosis; Dying-and-rising god, a mythological trope in which a god dies and then returns from the Afterlife and/or is reborn, sometimes cyclically. Examples include Dionysus, Persephone, Ishtar, and Jesus Christ. Kenosis
For a wider category of films in which Jesus is not the main character of the narrative, see the parent Category:Portrayals of Jesus in film. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Paris Olympics organizers issued an apology on Sunday after a scene depicting the Greek god Dionysus drew criticism for allegedly mocking Leonardo da Vinci's painting “The Last Supper,” which ...
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