An Old mystery ...

David Stockhoff · 04 Dec 2008, 18:27 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:27:01 -0500
Subject: (urth) An Old mystery ...
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As to that, I'd guess that the Christ myth contains all those myths---it is constructed of them. That's not quite the same as saying there is no difference, but it's close. The biggest difference is obviously going to be the close association with a monotheistic entity vs a position on a pantheon, however prominent.

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> >But why is the death and resurrection stuff in New Sun more
> >"Christian" and less "generic dying/returning god"?  Sure, individual
> >events (both encounters with Typhon, for example) recall Christ's
> >biography, but in terms of being the victory of Day over Night, and
> >Order over Chaos, Severian is as much Horus or Mithras or Marduk as he
> >is Christ.
>   

Well, I'd argue, again, that he brings about a sort of Apocatastasis.

I'd also argue that those myths your talking about are PROBABLY all talking about the same principle. Horus and Mithras and Marduk are very like Christ, if you look at the symbols and try to abstract what those symbols are trying to talk explain.  They're generally Regenerative Solar Healers who right a wrong.

All of these myths are made by HUMAN minds trying to understand these cosmological principles.  Some may be more or less Divinely Inspired, but they are all the product of HUMAN writers.  I think they are generally trying to describe, from their vantage point, something that most every culture has felt.  Wolfe has just done his own take.

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