...hiya,
i have seen part 1 of this and am very familiar with this argument, put forward
also by david icke.
the argument:
jesus didn't actually exist because the chronology and events of his life are
exactly mirrored by dozens of other mythological figures, such figures being
merely human canvasses on which to paint the same symbolic picture.... this
picture being a coded message, or a dual-layered story (ie myth) that carries
down through the ages the same pagan knowledge.
the other night whilst watching part 1 at a friends i had an a-ha moment which
seems to fit.
these stories are the same because it is a good story, because it is a single
myth with local variations. this myth is perpetuated down the generations and
spreads afar and in doing so it adopts the lofty personages of each era and
region such that the tale resonates as strongly as possible with the populace.
to suggest that jesus disn't exist is to ignore too much evidence, not least of
which is the gospel of thomas. this gospel is not of the myth, directly in any
case. it is a record of jesus' own words and is more eastern in flavour than
anything else. much of what is ascribed to jesus, eg birth and death dates and
events, is directly of this 'super-myth' (the dates corresponding to soltices
and equinoxes for instance). i think campbell sees this super myth -- which he
also sees reflected and inflected down the ages and across the world -- as
being best exemplified by the tale of Orpheus.
to recapitulate: the same 'super-myth' symbology is present in much of the
stories surrounding jesus as he was, in his time, a person held in highest
esteem. this super-myth is continually revivified (as myth constantly requires)
through the local particularities of each age/region. the actual
words/teachings of jesus generally stand outside this myth; they are
complementary perhaps but are not central to the mythic dynamic/unfolding.
perhaps by separating jesus' actual individual existence from his adoption by
the super-myth we can better unravel a lot of the confusion that has surrounded
christianity for centuries....
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