Deicide, I think you're missing a key point to my post, one which I perhaps didn't highlight enough. We're not talking about a real walking son of god here. Remember during that time real people/high-royalty took on the attributes of various gods and or a new line based on past gods and they did so often. Indeed there could have been a real person who took on this life of Jesus. Mortals proclaiming themselves gods was very normal, no need make up a person who did it. Caesarion really comes to mind for me because he was raised believing he was Horus as his mother was Isis. Horus is Iessus, not hard to see how that gets turned into Jesus after time and this name, issa or Iessus is Christ in Greek. Issa is the name the young man fleeing a middle east country around the same time, same age that Caesarian fled Egypt to the area around Tibet and during the missing years of Jesus. and remember, Caesarion believed/was told his father, Caesar WAS god. So here you have his mother who in her role as Isis is very similar to Mary and his father was god, to him. And don't forget the parallels many point to in the teaching of Jesus and eastern philosophies which could account for where he picked them up.