- In the
fields of
philosophy and mythography,
euhemerism (/juːˈhiːmərɪzəm, -hɛm-/) is an
approach to the
interpretation of
mythology in
which mythological...
- myth, such as in Bulfinch's Mythology,
euhemerism is
called the "historical interpretation" of mythology.
Euhemerism is
defined in
modern academic literature...
- (fifth-century BCE) and
Prodicus made
claims of this kind. This
theory is
named euhemerism after mythologist Euhemerus (c. 320 BCE), who
suggested that Gr**** gods...
- A
number of
royal genealogies of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms,
collectively referred to as the Anglo-Saxon
royal genealogies, have been
preserved in a m****cript...
- In
ancient Gr****
religion and mythology,
Pluto (Ancient Gr****: Πλούτων, romanized: Ploútōn) was the
ruler of the underworld. The
earlier name for the god...
- the
Yngling stemmed from the gods Yngve-Frey and Odin. This kinship, a
euhemerism, is not left in the poem; only Snorri's
words support this.
Finnur Jonsson...
- Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Divine king (disambiguation)
Devaraja Euhemerism Imperial cult God
emperor (disambiguation) List of
people who have been...
-
conflict with the
religious or
psychological theories of
their origin.
Fairy euhemerism, as
developed by MacRitchie,
attempts to
rationally explain the origin...
-
Culture hero Folk hero See also
Comparative mythology Comparative religion Euhemerism Folklore Epics Lower mythology Pseudo-mythology
Religion and mythology...
- for the
creation of the
historical figure "Sun Tzu"
through a form of
euhemerism. This
discovery also
demonstrated that much of the
historical confusion...
