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| ParanoidObsessive 12/28/18 6:51:13 PM #18: | Revelation34 posted... Zikten posted...Maybe in ancient prechristian versions of the story he could almost be The concept of the "sleeping god" or "the king under the mountain" existed before Christianity, though, at least in archetype. Part of why some people assume that the premise of Jesus as a god who dies but later returns to redeem was just stolen from earlier folklore or mythology. Something like 90% of early Christianity is basically just a Greek mystery cult crudely bolted on to existing Jewish history and cosmology. So it's distinctly possible that Arthur wasn't strictly a echo of Jesus, as much as both were borrowing from the same (or similar) original sources. Zikten posted... Arthur legends predate Christianity. That would be somewhat difficult, since Arthur was almost certainly born hundreds of years after Jesus, assuming both men were real at all. The first documented reference to Arthur anywhere in existing knowledge wasn't until 900 AD or so. And nearly every scholar who assumes he was real at all tend to place him somewhere around 400-450 AD in Roman England. Where he would literally have been raised as a Christian himself. The alternative view would be that he actually descends from unrelated Welsh mythology, but that would likely place him even later in the timeline. There's pretty much no sane or rational scholar who would ever make the claim that any story specifically about Arthur predates 1 AD. At best, you could argue that Arthur represents specific folkloric archetypes that existed before then, but that's not really the same thing. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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