1. Chrishna of Hindostan | 21. Beddru of Japan 22. Hesus or Eros, and Bremrillah, of the Druids 23. Thor, son of Odin, of the Gauls 24. Cadmus of Greece 25. Hil and Feta of the Mandaites 26. Gentaut and Quexalcote of Mexico 27. Universal Monarch of the Sibyls 28. Ischy of the Island of Formosa 29. Divine Teacher of Plato 30. Holy One of Xaca 31. Fohi and Tien of China 32. Adonis, son of the virgin Io of Greece 33. Ixion and Quirinus of Rome 34. Prometheus of Caucasus 35. Mohamud, or Mahomet, of Arabia |
“Christianity only takes up the fight that had already begun against the classic idea and the noble tradition. In fact, this entire transformation is an adaption to the needs and the level of understanding of the religious masses of that time: those masses which believed in Isis, Mithras, Dionysus, the ‘great mother’, and which desired of a religion: (1) Hope of beyond, (2) the bloody phantasmagoria of the sacrificial animal (the mystery), (3) the redemptive deed, the holy legend, (4) asceticism, world-denial, superstitious ‘purification’, (5) a hierarch, a form of community. In short, Christianity accommodated itself to already existing and established antipaganism, to the cults that had been combatted by Epicurus—more precisely, to the religions of the lower masses, the woman, the slaves, the non-noble classes.”— Friedrich Nietzsche (1888), WP:196, Nov 1887 to Mar 1888
“Christianity is the formula for exceeding and summing up the subterranean cults of all varieties, that of Osiris, that of the Great Mother, that of Mithras, for instance: in his discernment of this fact the genius of Paul showed itself. This was his revelation at Damascus: he grasped the fact that he needed the belief in immortality in order to rob “the world” of its value, that the concept of “hell” would master Rome—that the notion of a “beyond” is the death of life.... Nihilist and Christian: they rhyme in German, and they do more than rhyme.”— Friedrich Nietzsche (1888), The Anti-Christ (§58)