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Euhemerism in the proper Greek sense is the belief that myth is nothing more than forgotten history, and what the Greeks enjoyed as their mythological heritage was, according to the doctrines of the fourth century B.C. Sicilian philosopher Euhemeros, just remote Greek history imperfectly remembered...

Hawthorne wrote: You quoted Richard Carrier October 4 Richard Carrier:, 2013 at 12:47 pm (UTC -8) If a wikipedia article says that (I didn’t see such a statement), it’s incorrect. That would be confusing what Euhemerizers thought was true, with what was actually happening. It would also be exactly n...

Casey’s Instruments of Demonization

http://vridar.org/2014/03/10/caseys-ins ... monization

I'm trying to locate a page number for a comment Casey made in his latest rag. I was reading it on Googlebooks which for some reason has no page numbers. He's slagging Salm about such things as whether Julius Africanus refers to Judean villages or Jewish villages. The page starts "archaeologic...

I'm not sure why it matters to you whether Carrier uses the term "euhemerism" or "reverse euhemerism." They are apparently both recognized in the scholarship. My point was to challenge your linking of the sourced articles to a view that "myths" are somehow evolved from...

Now then, if you want to turn euhemerism on its head by advocating a 'reverse euhemerism' you are up against "modern academic literature" OK, that's fine. You are going to need some strong arguments - which I have not seen coming from any mythicists that are seeking to support a non-stand...

Maybe I'm dense, but according to the definition Maryhelena keeps linking to, Christianity fits the definition precisely if the mythicist hypothesis is correct. In other words, second-century Christianity treats mythical accounts (the heavenly Christ of the Pauline epistles) as a reflection of hist...