| 词汇 | euhemeristic |
| 词源 | euhemeristic. Euhemeristic is an adjective applied to at- tempts to interpret myths, especially primitive religious myths, on a historical basis. The Greek writer Euhemerus is responsi- ble for the word, it being this mythmaker’s theory that the gods popularly worshipped in the fourth century b.c. had all origi- nally been kings and heroes. In his philosophical romance Sa- cred History Euhemerus depicted the gods thus, insisting that they had merely been deified by their subjects or admirers. The writer claimed that he had discovered an inscribed gold pillar confirming his theory in a temple on an island in the Indian Ocean. |
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