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  2. Dionysus - Wikipedia

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    According to Kerényi, the title of "man who suffers" likely originally referred to the god himself, only being applied to distinct characters as the myth developed. [ 33 ] The oldest known image of Dionysus, accompanied by his name, is found on a dinos by the Attic potter Sophilos around 570 BC and is located in the British Museum . [ 34 ]

  3. Maenad - Wikipedia

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    Cultist rites associated with the worship of the Greek god of wine, Dionysus (or Bacchus in Roman mythology), were characterized by maniacal dancing to the sound of loud music and crashing cymbals, in which the revelers, called Bacchantes, whirled, screamed, became drunk and incited one another to greater and greater ecstasy. The goal was to ...

  4. Dionysus in comparative mythology - Wikipedia

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    Dionysus, the god of wine, theatre, and ecstasy in ancient Greek religion, has been compared to many other deities, both by his classical worshippers and later scholars.. These deities include figures outside of ancient Greek religion, such as Jesus, [1] Osiris, [2] Shiva, [3] and Tammuz, [4] as well as figures inside of ancient Greek religion, such as Had

  5. Jesus in comparative mythology - Wikipedia

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    Scholars disagree whether the parable of the rich man and Lazarus recorded in Luke 16:19–31 originates with Jesus or if it is a later Christian invention, [41] but the story bears strong resemblances to various folktales told throughout the Near East. [42] Adoration of the Shepherds (1622) by the Dutch painter Gerard van Honthorst.

  6. Pseudanor - Wikipedia

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    Pseudanor (Greek: Ψευδάνωρ pseudo-+ anēr "false man", metaphorically an "effeminate man") was a Macedonian epithet applied to Dionysus.Other Macedonian appellations to the god were Agrios (Ἄγριος) [1] "wild" (as god of the countryside) and Erikryptos (Ἐρίκρυπτος) "completely hidden" (as the god hidden from the frenzied women roaming the countryside by the ...

  7. Gender of God - Wikipedia

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    Most Christian groups conceive of God as Triune, believing that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are distinct persons, but one being that is wholly God. [7] [8] God the Son (Jesus Christ), having been incarnated as a human man, is masculine. Classical western philosophy believes that God lacks a literal sex as it would be ...

  8. Christ myth theory - Wikipedia

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    Those accounts are based on the Messiah mytheme, a king anointed by God to restore the Divine order at Earth. [80] Thompson also argues that the resurrection of Jesus is taken directly from the story of the dying and rising god, Dionysus . [ 368 ]

  9. Dionysus-Osiris - Wikipedia

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    This association was most notable during a deification ceremony where Mark Antony became Dionysus-Osiris, alongside Cleopatra as Isis-Aphrodite. [3] In the controversial book The Jesus Mysteries, Osiris-Dionysus is claimed to be the basis of Jesus as a syncretic dying-and-rising god, with early Christianity beginning as a Greco-Roman mystery. [4]