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In reply to the discussion: An Easter Blessing [View all]struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)(particularly in the first or second centuries) and who wanted to examine the Jesus-stories as a variety of such mythology, could probably say something interesting, by considering what we know about the uses to which mythic stories were put, or about what persons found which mythologies somehow appealing, or about the similarities and differences of the various myths available in local cultures at the time, or about how different mythological traditions actually interacted, or about how myths changed in the retelling to serve different cultural objectives
But the article, that you link, does nothing so interesting, so far as I can tell: it seems a mishmash of unrelated remarks -- and in many respects, it seems not to be very accurate
Eostre/Ostara, unfortunately, seems to be attested only by a single dark ages source written after the alleged worship had disappeared, so anything to be said there must at present remain almost pure conjecture. Prometheus seems never to have spawned any large cultic movement. Osiris had a long history in Egypt, though by the Graeco-Roman era he had been transformed unrecognizably into a Greek god and was usually called by a different name, so in discussing the variant of the Osiris mythology in the first century, it might be important not to assume all elements from times a millennium or two prior were still circulating: Osiris, murdered by his brother in a power struggle, was only briefly resurrected (by his wife) so she could become pregnant
Hercules, of course, was a perennial Roman favorite, known and admired primarily for his feats of strength -- stories rather different in focus than the story of a homeless rabbi brutally executed by the Romans