The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors - Graves, Kersey
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Khrisna of India. Thammuz of Syria. Esus of the Celtic Druids. Mithra of Persia. Quexalcoati of Mexico. All were crucified gods, and all met their fates hundreds of years before Jesus appeared on the scene. In this foundational work of modern atheism, American spiritualist KERSEY GRAVES (1813-1883) breaks the Christ myth down into its component parts and ably demonstrates how the story of Jesus has its roots in the depths of antiquity. Here you'll read about the surprising prevalence throughout global folklore of: . the miraculous and immaculate conception of the gods . stars that point out…mehr

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Khrisna of India. Thammuz of Syria. Esus of the Celtic Druids. Mithra of Persia. Quexalcoati of Mexico. All were crucified gods, and all met their fates hundreds of years before Jesus appeared on the scene. In this foundational work of modern atheism, American spiritualist KERSEY GRAVES (1813-1883) breaks the Christ myth down into its component parts and ably demonstrates how the story of Jesus has its roots in the depths of antiquity. Here you'll read about the surprising prevalence throughout global folklore of: . the miraculous and immaculate conception of the gods . stars that point out the time and place of a savior's birth . angels, shepherds, and magi visiting an infant savior . the 25th of December as the universal birth date of gods . saviors who descend into Hell . and much more. This is essential reading for students of comparative mythology and modern freethinkers. ALSO AVAILABLE FROM COSIMO: Graves's The Biography of Satan and The Bible of Bibles
Autorenporträt
Graves was born in Brownsville, PA. His parents were Quakers, and as a young man, he followed in their footsteps, eventually shifting to the Hicksite branch of Quakerism. According to one source, Graves did not attend school for more than three or four months of his life, but another source claims that he had a "academical education" and began teaching at a Richmond school at the age of 19, a career he would continue for more than twenty years. He advocated for Abolitionism, was interested in language reform, and became linked with a number of radical freethinkers within Quakerism. In August 1844, he joined a group of roughly fifty utopian settlers from Wayne County, Indiana. Graves married Lydia Michiner, a Quaker, in July 1845 at Goschen Meeting House in Zanesfield, Logan County, Ohio, and the couple raised five children in Harveysburg, Ohio. They then returned to Richmond and purchased a farm. The Goschen Meeting House was a Congregational Friends center dedicated to Temperance and Peace, health reform, anti-slavery, women's rights, and socialistic utopianism. Graves' Quaker upbringing conditioned him to believe in the idea of the Inner Light, which held that all clergy, creeds, and prescribed liturgy in worship were irrelevant and impediments to God's mission. This was exacerbated by Hicks' version of Quakerism, Quietism, in which an individual's spiritual life was paramount and all outward manifestations were invalid.