Reply #19: No I didn't, but reading about this over the years had [View All]

[Cleita]

led me to this conclusion. All the bible characters seem to have come from older traditions anyway. The Virgin Mary, has many of the attributes of the various goddesses before her.

Actually speaking of Hercules, he too was the son of a God and a mortal, whose mother gave birth to him in spite of her husband knowing it wasn't his child. When he dies he too is resurrected and is bodily taken to the Elysian fields by the gods.