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    Apart from Jesus, what other religious or mythological figures have been resurrected from the dead?

    Question #63115. Asked by Sabine06. (Mar 04 06 11:17 PM)


    bigponder

    Keith Richards

    Mar 04 06, 11:21 PM
    picqero

    Jesus is recorded as raising two people from death, the daughter of Jairus (Luke, chapter 8, verses 41 - 56), and Lazarus (John, chapter 11, verese 1 - 44).

    Mar 04 06, 11:32 PM
    soonappear

    The category life-death-rebirth deity also known as a "dying-and-rising" god is a convenient means of classifying the many divinities in world mythology or religion who are born, suffer death or an eclipse or other death-like experience, pass a phase in the underworld among the dead, and are subsequently reborn, in either a literal or symbolic sense. Such deities might include Hades, Osiris, Adonis, Jesus, and Mithras. Female deities who passed into the kingdom of death and returned include Inanna and Persephone, the central figure of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

    http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=fjqnt3pxbpjv?method=4&dsid=2222&dekey=Life-death-rebirth+deity&gwp=8&curtab=2222_1&sbid=lc05b&linktext=Life-death-rebirth%20deity

    Mar 05 06, 12:34 AM
    Arpeggionist

    In the Old Testament, I can recount three cases of resurrection - two children brought back by Elijah and Elisha respectively, and a dead man who shared a grave with Elisha.

    Mar 05 06, 4:30 AM
    kaylofgorons

    I love that story of Elisha's grave, people don't tell it often enough.

    Mar 05 06, 7:36 AM
    Baloo55th

    I suppose the two resurrected by Elisha partly offset those torn apart by the bears (2 Kings 2:23-25)... (Incidentally, Elisha is one of the few people in the Bible about whose appearance we know something - he was bald.)

    Mar 05 06, 7:54 AM
    Baloo55th

    Must stop hitting that reply button before I've finished!
    Another resurrected character is from Finnish mythology - Lemminkäinen who was torn apart by the sons of Tuoni after he had tried to kill the Swan of Tuonela, and was reassembled and reaminated by his mother. In Indian mythology, Ganesa had his (original human) head cut off by Siva, but was fitted with an new (well, second-hand really) one from a passing elephant and brought back to life. Hard luck on the elephant, though...

    Mar 05 06, 8:04 AM
    mementoflash

    It seems that this gentleman was resurrected:

    http://www.born-again-christian.info/african.resurrection.htm

    Mar 05 06, 10:14 AM
    milky54

    well there was lazuras, and ganesh im pretty sure...

    Mar 05 06, 10:51 AM
    Arpeggionist

    Elisha is among some people about whose appearence we know. But we don't know much except that he was bald. Elijah was "a very hairy man", David and Esau were redheaded (Esau was also very hairy while his brother was relatively smoothe). Saul was the tallest man in his Israel among his generation, and Amasa had a thick enough beard.

    Mar 05 06, 2:35 PM
    lanfranco

    As a born-again pagan, I have a certain attachment to Adonis and Mithras, but if they count -- and just to be whimsical -- Snow White might qualify:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White

    Mar 05 06, 5:53 PM
    xfacilitatorx

    Hey Lan! So you do have SOME Religious ties?!

    Mar 05 06, 6:19 PM
    lanfranco

    Hard to help it in my field.

    Myth, folklore, fairy tales, and religion -- they have a fascinating way of getting mixed up over time and of not being entirely susceptible to disentanglement.

    Lots of fun.

    Mar 05 06, 6:50 PM
    Baloo55th

    What sort of designs do they have on religious ties? Milky, Lazarus has been mentioned, and Ganesh is the same as Ganesa - it's one of those transcription from a foreign script things. like Siva being the same person (person? god) as Shiva, and Jesus being Yeshua and so on. It's right, though, that mythology, legend, folklore, fairy tales, religion, and nowadays too urban legend are hard to separate. Christianity has a very wide speading mythology, as do most religions, but people get very offended if this is pointed out. (Many of the Lives of the Saints are pure fiction for a start...)

    Mar 06 06, 10:57 AM
    soonappear

    "Every culture that is examined, whether ancient or modern, has the concept of a dying and resurrected god. The manifestation takes many forms and is as primal as the unconscious recognition of the deep spiritual meaning grafted onto the vernal equinox ...
    Osiris, Isis, Horus Egyptian resurrectional trinity and the Sumerian/Babylonian Tammuz. These myths can be looked upon as variations upon one great human mythical symphony ...

    http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/d/dying_and_resurrected_gods_archetypal_manifestation_of_psychological_need.html

    Mar 06 06, 5:28 PM


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