Does Attis rise from the dead? NO!!!
...actually, yes, Attis does rise from the dead. He's a solar metaphor god (like Jesus).
He is born at the winter solstice (birth of the new sun); dies under a tree or is nailed to a tree (metaphor for the Southern Cross Constellation) is buried in a cave or tomb for three days (the sun sets in the dark void in the Milky Way known as The Cave) then is born again when the day becomes longer than the night (this is Easter: the spring equinox).
ALL the dying resurrecting godmen follow this astrological blueprint: 12 disciples for the 12 zodiac signs (although Heracles/Hercules has 12 labours instead); set-piece miracles; knowing everything at twelve; feeding a multitude; then the escalating magic tricks of healing the lame, healing the blind, then raising the dead, all accompanied by a whore and a motherly virgin who might be the same person.
It's all just astrological metaphor.
We don't have a direct source which explicitly states that Attis rose/rises from the dead, but that's due to two contrivances of circumstance:
-Christians waged a 2,000 year propaganda war burning both books and heretics; especially the gospels of pre-Jesus godmen
-the resurrection is considered a sacred "mystery" among Mystery Religion devotees and as such cannot be openly discussed, only passed on orally as a secret for the initiated
What we do know, is that the followers of Attis held a festival every year at Easter time. On the "Day of Woe" they marched in procession to a sacred grove of pine trees (Christmas trees?) here the high priest would cut down a tree; then carry it back to the temple through the streets on his back.
Once at the temple, the tree would be stood up at the altar. A (usually wooden) statue of the dead Attis would then be hoisted into the tree and nailed to it (through holes in his hands).
Attis' followers would then lock the doors of the temple, and stay inside, fasting and grievng, for thee full days... on the third day the temple doors are flung open in celebration and they take to the streets proclaiming the "Day of Joy", wherein the statue of the living Attis is placed back on the altar.
So, they didn't say it explicitly... but it's pretty obvious. Just too many similarities.
Does Osiris rise from the dead? NO!!!
...actually, yes. Osiris does rise fom the dead. Twice in fact, once in the guise of his son/interchangeable-alter-ego Horus, then again as his "risen" self. It's a whole pagan dichotomy thing.
Don't worry, you'd like Horus... he's just like Jesus.
His magical conception
1 as the only begotten son
2 of Osiris was anounced to his mother
3 Isis-Mary
4 by an angel
5. She gave birth to him on the midwinter solstice
6 in a cave
7 attended by three
8 solar deities and his adoptive earth-father Jo-Seph (or Jo-Seb)
9 who was descended from royalty
10, and presided over by Sirius the brightest star in th sky
11... some shephards witnessed his birth too
12. Isis Mary then had to flee with the infant Horus
13, when the evil tyrant Herut (Herod?)
14 ordered the miracle child murdered
15. We know nothing of what became of Horus till he partakes of a special ritual at age twelve
16 and gained knowledge of all things
17. He disappears again till age 30
18, when he is baptised
19 in the holy river Eridanus
20 by Anup the Baptiser
21... sadly, Anup the Baptiser was later decapitated
22. Before beginning his wonders, Horus wandered in the desert
23 of Amenta where he was sorely tempted by the evil deceiver god Set (Satan?)
24, but Horus resisted this temptation
25. Horus then (supposedly) took twelve companions (disciples) who witnessed him heal the sick
25, heal the blind
26, cast out demons
27, walk on water
28 and quell a storm at sea by sheer force of will
29.
For his
piece de resistence he then raised his murdered father, Osiris, from the dead
30... who then became known as Asar, the raised one (Lazarus)
31, and this miracle occurred in the city of Anu, or Beth Anu in Hebrew (Bethany?). He then gave a sermon on a mount
32.
Regarding his death we have two traditions... one that he was stung by a scorpion... and the other that he as crucified
33 alongside two thieves
34 and buried in a cave
35. He then descended into Hades (Hell?)
36 only to return as the risen cruciform version of Horus three days later
37... risen cruciform Horus first appeared to women
38.
That's 38 coincidences by my count... and that's neglecting the fact that Horus was also known as "The Good Shepherd", the "Lamb of God", the "Bread of Life", the "Son of Man", the "Word", the "Fisher King"... that his symbols were the fish and the zodiac symbol Pisces... and that his title was KRST (Christ) "The Anointed One"... and that his most common iconography is as a child sat on the lap of Isis-Mary, the Virgin.
In fact, I've actually seen an old Egyptian black basalt statue of Isis-Mary, the Virgin, with Horus, the miracle chid, on her lap set up in a monastery in Spain and revered as a sacred statue of Jesus and Mary... funny.
Does Dionysus rise from the dead? NO!!
Does Adonis rise from the dead? NO!!!
...actually, yes. This really isn't open to debate as Early Church Fathers actually conceded this point as early as the forth century.
It's called the "Doctrine of Diabolical Mimicry": the idea that the Jesus story only parallels earlier gods because the Devil made mock versions of the wholly original Jesus story in anticipation of Jesus centuries beforehand merely to discredit the originality of Jesus. Talk about hysterical blindness, this delusional bullshit remains the official Christian counter to these claims of plagiarism to this very day... the Devil made false Jesus' before Jesus, just to discredit Jesus...
"The Devil, whose business is to pervert the truth mimics the exact circumstances of the Divine Sacraments. He baptises his believers and promises forgiveness of sins from the Sacred Fount, and thereby initiates them into the religion of Mithras. Thus he celebrates the oblation of bread, and brings in the symbol of resurrection. Let us therefore acknowledge the craftiness of the devil, who copies certain things of those that be Divine".-Tertullian, (Early Church Father)
"Having heard it proclaimed through the prophets that the Christ was to come and that the ungodly amongst men were to be punished by fire, the wicked spirit (Satan) put forth many to be called Sons of God, under the impression that they would be able to produce in men the idea that the things that were said with regards to Christ were merely marvellous tales, like the things that were said by the poets".-Justin Martyr, (Early Church Father) Second Century
So right from the very start, even the Christian hierarchy admitted the parallels between Jesus and the Mystery Religion gods. In fact, Justin Martyr actually went so far as to concede
every single one of the parallels we have been discussing here:“And when we say also that… [Jesus] was produced without sexual union, and that He… was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended into heaven, we profess nothing different from what you believe regarding those whom you esteem sons of Jupiter.”
“…And if we even affirm that He was born of a virgin, accept this in common with what you accept of Perseus. And in that we say that He made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is very similar to the deeds said to have been done by Aesculapius.”
-Justin Martyr, First Apology, chapters 21-23. (second century)
So what are we arguing here? The very first Christians themselves admitted, openly, to their Pagan detractors (such as Celsus), that there is NOTHING SUBSTANTIVELY ORIGINAL IN THE JESUS STORY.
How could it have become original since then?
Bump for The Luke to answer me.
1. Jesus Christ's death by crucifixion
2. Jesus Christ's Sermon on the Mount
How were these "lifted from a previous Pagan Mystery Religion"?
Esus(Hesus) did not die by crucifixion. You made that up. And the name Jesus has nothing to do with the name Esus. You made that up too.
For points 1 and 2 you can see my response to McWay's hysterics.
If you share McWay's aversion to proper research of the Mystery Religion, you could always just refer to Buddhism... The Sermon on the Mount has long been attributed to paraphrasing from Buddhism, and there is even a weird subculture tradition of Buddhism in which Buddha himself was crucified, yet rose from the dead.
Regarding Hesus/Esus... well I'm afraid you'll have to do a little more research than scanning a single paragraph encyclopedia entry. I know you guys have a list of approved Christian apologist websites and dismiss every other source... but if you want to know, you'll just have to research for yourself.
There's no point in me referring you to some link or source, which you then dismiss as being somehow "discredited". Do your own research, when you've done enough you'll start to agree.
Hesus is crucified... he dies and resurrects at Easter time for the sins of mankind. Just like ALL the Mystery Religion solar godmen (including Jesus). I've actually personally been inside two of these "caves" where a Mystery Religion dying/resurrecting godmen was supposedly born/died/resurrected... one of them 5,500 years old, the other 10,000+ years old.
This shit is old... old... old. Accept it.
The Luke