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RE: Mythologie in Architektur und Kunst // Mythology in Architecture and Art
Beautiful post showing pictures of art of ancient gods. Do you think there is room to think about the gods of the past being real characters that mythology turned into gods?
Thanks for your comment! Did the gods really exist? The theory that gods were extraordinary people who were worshipped divinely after their death is an interesting approach.
In Hellenistic and later in Roman times there were also deified rulers like Alexander the Great or Gaius Iulius Caesar. In Greek mythology there are histories that served them as models, for example the ascent of Heracles to Olympus. He was a demigod, lived as human on earth, died as human, albeit in a spectacular way and finally became god. Undoubtedly this is a significant myth, but it is not clear whether it is based on facts.
Most of the scandalous stories about the individual gods, the total humanization, only emerged in the course of time, when the poets took more and more liberties and the faith gradually waned.
Maybe, if Rome would not have fallen, Julius Caesar would be like Heracles now. Have you read the Book of Enoch?
No, I don't know Enoch's book. Is it an apocalyptic text, similar to the Gospel of John?
No. It is a book, kind of parallel to Genesis, which describes the story of the fallen angels. Suppressed from the Bible in the third century of this era. Also, you can find it as a free ebook.
Thanks for the information.