[lbo-talk] Narnia

[andie nachgeborenen]

The dying and resurrected god is the staple myth of a
zillion religions, Isis and Osiris come immediately to
mind. The Druids did this too, with the King Stag.
Joseph Campbell (Hero With A Thousand Faces) and James
Frazier (The Golden Bough) wrote whole multivolume
books on this topic.

In Chicago, btw, there is a hospital/HMO/PPO outfit
called Resurrection Health Care. That's a rather large
promise, don't you think? ("Who do you think you are,
that you can bring the dead to life?" -- The evil
doctor Soberin in Kiss Me Deadly.) Imagine the
advertisng slogans: If you need us, you are in real
trouble. Or: Stop here before checking in at the
morgue. 

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> 
> >The  rest -- betrayal, sacrifice, resurrection,
> breath of life, good 
> >triumphing over evil, etc. -- are elements found in
> many myths and 
> >fairy tales.
> 
> Nothing Christian about resurrection, is there?
> 
> Doug
> 
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