There is another side to euhemerism, and another consequence. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The first, and the most prosaic, is euhemerism: the gods were only men, famous or powerful men, who had been deified after their death through the adulation of their contemporaries. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
As an orthodox mythologist, Banier finds euhemerism useful: as merely falsified or mistaken history, myth can be corrected and fitted back into biblical chronology and sacred history. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Deification and euhemerism are equally natural to the. From Wordnik.com. [Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3] Reference
Nothing can be more childish than the punctilious euhemerism by which all the miraculous elements of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference
In Çivaism, in contradistinction to Vishnuism, there is not a trace of the euhemerism which has been suspected in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow] Reference
Bucolic paradise of Battus and Bombyce, of Corydon and Daphnis, may it please the hierophants of Sanskrit lore, of derivative Aryan philology, of iconoclastic euhemerism, to spare us yet awhile the lovely myths that dance across the asphodel meads of sunny Sicily. From Wordnik.com. [At the Mercy of Tiberius] Reference
(1735) pursue a severe euhemerism. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
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