Inspired by religion discussion on Main

[sistermagpie]

> So now I am curious, since I consider myself to be pretty well versed (at least on the basic level) with all sort of religious mythos.
> 
> I wonder if somebody could give me the example of the deity who not only died and was resurrected, but did so to save other people. The example of such God or Godlike figure dying for **any** sort of good for another people will do.

Magpie:
I'm not an expert on this, but I have heard that Horus was killed, descended into hell for 3 days and was resurrected and he is also the savior of humanity. There's a lot of parallels between the two, but I'm sure there's debate about how many are accepted.

I would say that most fertility gods would fit the bill as doing good for people--the sun dying and being reborn helps people, crop gods being sacrificed and reborn like nature seems like it would go along with it.

Also--I'm totally on a limb here--but wasn't there a lot of overlapping ideas between Christianity and Aztec (I think it was?) religion? That it was more a case of replacing blood sacrifice with the sacrifice of Jesus?

-m