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The early Christian apologists deployed the euhemerist argument to support their position that pagan mythology was merely an aggregate of fables of human invention. Cyprian, a North African convert to Christianity, wrote a short essay, De idolorum vanitate ("On the Vanity of Idols") in 247 CE that takes the euhemeristic rationale as if needing no demonstration. Cyprian begins:
"That those are no gods whom the common people worship, is known from this: they were formerly ki ...
See also:Euhemerus, Euhemerus - The Sacred History, Euhemerus - Euhemerism and the Early Christians, Euhemerus - Cyprian, Euhemerus - Arnobius, Euhemerus - Euhemerism in the Modern World, Euhemerus - Euhemeristic belief within Mormonism Read more here: » Euhemerus: Encyclopedia II - Euhemerus - Euhemerism and the Early Christians |
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| | | | Euhemerus - Cyprian: Encyclopedia II - Euhemerus - The Sacred History Only quoted fragments remain from his main work, a Sacred History ("Hiera Anagraphê"), that was a philosophical fictionalized travelogue, based upon imagined archaic inscriptions, which he claimed to have found during his travels. He particularly relies upon a register of the births and deaths of many of the gods, which his narrator persona discovered inscribed on a golden pillar in a temple on the invented island of Panchaea, when on a voyage round the coast of Arabia, undertaken at the request of Cassander of Macedon, according to Eusebius, He is said to have sailed down the Red Sea and round t ...
See also:Euhemerus, Euhemerus - The Sacred History, Euhemerus - Euhemerism and the Early Christians, Euhemerus - Cyprian, Euhemerus - Arnobius, Euhemerus - Euhemerism in the Modern World, Euhemerus - Euhemeristic belief within Mormonism Read more here: » Euhemerus: Encyclopedia II - Euhemerus - The Sacred History |
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