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Definition of Euhemerism
1. n. The theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology were but deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification in imagination of human acts.
Definition of Euhemerism
1. Noun. A belief attributing the origins of the gods to the deification of heroes after their deaths. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Euhemerism
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Medical Definition of Euhemerism
1. The theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology were but deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification in imagination of human acts. Origin: L. Euhemerus, Gr. A philosopher, about 300. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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Literary usage of Euhemerism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin and Development of Religious Belief by Sabine Baring-Gould (1892)
"... or euhemerism. WE are greatly mistaken if we suppose that religion was the
invention of priests, as was taught by the philosophers of the last century. ..."
2. Contributions to the Science of Mythology by Friedrich Max Müller (1897)
"euhemerism. No school of mythology, however sceptical as to the physical origin
of the principal gods and heroes of antiquity, has ever, so far as I know, ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"It is beyond belief that euhemerism was so old as to have become the ... When to
euhemerism is added so late a theory as the eclectic employed in this ..."
4. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1882)
"The first he terms euhemerism, by which he seems to mean the manufacturing ...
His theory of euhemerism he seems to apply principally to that portion of the ..."
5. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1882)
"The first he terms euhemerism, by which he seems to mean the manufacturing ...
His theory of euhemerism he seems to apply principally to that portion of the ..."
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