tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post3176910633605989785..comments2024-03-16T23:22:45.187+00:00Comments on Rosa Rubicondior: Inspiring Atheists - Visual ArtRosa Rubicondiorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-56293113761967743562022-06-18T19:41:22.053+01:002022-06-18T19:41:22.053+01:00Thank you for this lovely post. Given the number o...Thank you for this lovely post. Given the number of French people listed, I'm wondering if the French are more likely to be atheists, or simply more likely to own up to it. As for Van Gogh, I would like to think he was an atheist, but I'm unable to verify it. Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-15733295147546871852012-12-23T20:24:25.161+00:002012-12-23T20:24:25.161+00:00From "The Hero"
Lord Raglan
Oxford Unive...From "The Hero"<br />Lord Raglan<br />Oxford University Press 1937<br /><br />(According to Raglan, legendary heroes all conform to a mythic pattern, viz:)<br /><br />"The hero's mother is a royal virgin; his father is a king, and often a near relative of his mother, but the circumstances of his conception are unusual, and he is also reputed to be the son of a god. At birth an attempt is made, usually by his father or his maternal grandfather (or the overlord of the realm), to kill him, but he is spirited away, and reared by foster-parents in a far country. We are told nothing of his childhood, but on reaching manhood he returns or goes to his future kingdom. After a victory over the king and/or a giant, dragon, or wild beast, he marries a princess, often the daughter of his predecessor, and becomes king. for a time he reigns uneventfully, and prescribes laws, but later he loses favour with the gods and/or his subjects, and is driven from the throne and city, after which he meets with a mysterious death, often at the top of a hill. His children, if any, do not succeed him. His body is not buried, but nevertheless he has one or more holy sepulchres".<br /><br />Raglan applies this pattern applies in greater or lesser degree, to an enormous number or legendary heroes including: Oedipus, Theseus, Romulus, Heracles, Perseus, Jason, Asclepius, Dionysus, Apollo, Zeus, Joseph, Moses, Sigurd, Arthur, Robin Hood and ...<br /><br />Spot the missing name!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com