Οι ομιλητές
Οι συμμετέχοντες, τα θέματα και οι περιλήψεις των εργασιών που θα παρουσιαστούν στο 1ο Πανελλαδικό Συνέδριο για τον Μυθικισμό

Στέφανος Παϊπέτης / Stephanos Paipetis
Ο Ιησούς ως Ηλιακή θεότητα / Jesus as a solar deity
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Ραδάμανθυς Αναστασάκης / Radamanthys Anastasakis
Ο Μυθικισμός στο έργο του Charles Francois Dupuis / Mythicism in the work of Charles Francois Dupuis
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Sean Fracek – Brian Edward (Mythicist Milwaukee Team)
Οι θέσεις μας πάνω στο Μυθικιστικό ζήτημα και γιατί θεωρούμε πως προάγουν την Κοσμικότητα / Our take on the mythicist position and why we feel the knowledge of mythicism is important for promoting secularism
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Χαρίτα Μήνη / Harita Meenee
Οι κρυμμένες πλευρές του μύθου της Γένεσης / The hidden aspects of the Genesis myth
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Στράτος Θεοδοσίου / Stratos Theodosiou
Βρεφοκρατούσες και Γαλακτοτροφούσες θεότητες / Infant-holding and Βreastfeeding deities
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From antiquity till today the image of a deity holding or breastfeeding an infant is often depicted in various sculptures or icons. The Great Mother Goddess, who offers the divine essence to her son through her holy milk so that nature can be reborn and new life can be created, has a variety of names in the pantheon of Eastern religions. In ancient Egyptian sculpture, the goddess Isis is usually depicted nursing her son, the young Horus, known as Har-pa-Khrad or Har-pe-Khrod, which in Greek became Harpocrates. The young Horus appears in sculpture and iconography as an infant, nude or semi-nude, adorned only with jewelry, his head completely shaved, suckling while sitting on his mother’s lap. Since then, this sculpted image has become the perfect model of a divine mother and son.
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Γιώργος Ιωαννίδης / George Ioannidis
Η Ανάληψη της Παναγίας: Μια Μυθικιστική διερεύνηση στη θεολογία της ενσώματης μετάστασης της Παρθένου / The ascension of the Virgin: An investigation into the theology of the corporeal transformation of the Virgin through Mythicism
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Γιώργος Λεκάκης / George Lekakis
Το φαινόμενο της Ακαΐας: Από την Άρτεμη στα Αναστενάρια / The phenomenon of non-burning: From Artemis to the Anastenaria
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«Anastenaria» is undoubtedly one of the most bizarre and impressive traditional customs of our country. Every year for centuries, at a specific time and in distinct locations all over Northern Greece, Anastenarides follow the ritual they inherited from previous generations, by managing to walk barefoot and ecstatic across lit, glowing coals. In this project, we examine step by step the procedures taking place during these celebrations, while at the same time we trace the origins of this tradition in the ancient hellenic culture.
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Χρήστος Πανόπουλος / Christos Panopoulos
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Ιωάννης Μπουσίου / Ioannis Mpousiou
Η Ελληνική Θρησκεία και οι Μυθικιστικές προεκτάσεις της στον Χριστιανισμό / The pagan Greek religion and its Mythicist implications in Christianity
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Ευρυνόμη Γαβρά / Evrinomi Gavra
Ο Ορφικός Φάνης, ο Ιησούς και το σύμβολο του Εσταυρωμένου / The Orphic Phanes, Jesus and the symbol of the crucifix
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Γιώργος Γκουσγκούνης / George Gousgounis
Ο Μυθικισμός στους Νεοπλατωνικούς φιλοσόφους και τους Γνωστικούς της Ύστερης Αρχαιότητας: Οι περιπτώσεις του Πορφύριου και των Δοκητιστών / Mythicism in the Neoplatonic and Gnostic philosophers of late antiquity: The case of Porphyry and the Docetists
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Kenneth Humphreys
2016: Ο Ιησούς καταλαμβάνει τη θέση του στην παγκόσμια μυθολογία / 2016: Jesus takes his place in the mythology of the world
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Christianity makes a claim that a truly fabulous character started the movement, with his teachings and miracles climaxing in his resurrection appearances after death.
But the one thing we can say about the source for this claim – the gospels – is that they were not written by simple, illiterate, Aramaic-speaking fishermen and peasants who knew Jesus. They were written, decades later, by literate, educated writers who wrote in Greek and who were imaginative regarding the Judean landscape.
We read of gospel events in which the miraculous happens only in utterly obscure or non-existent places, none of them known to archaeology or from any historian of the time. On the other hand, the great many villages, towns and cities of Galilee, which are known from written sources and archaeology, have no place in the gospel story supposedly acted out all around them.
There is a disconnect with reality. We are not dealing with eyewitness testimony to history but with a trajectory of literary development.
What then are we to make of the thinly drawn life of Jesus? From the beginning Christians started invoking prophecy to justify their wondrous tale of Jesus because even then, they weren’t able to point to real, tangible evidence, existent artifacts, or testimony from genuine witnesses. The story of Jesus owes an extraordinary amount to older Jewish literature— drawn from Adam, Moses, Enoch, Melchizedek, Elijah, Elisha, et cetera. The more ancient and revered fantasy of the Jews was repurposed by the gospel writers as both the words and deeds of Jesus.
But if the story of Jesus is fiction what of the «man behind the myth»? We must ask the difficult questions: Why would a Jesus be notable if he did not draw multitudes from across the region? Why would he have been remembered decades later if he did not perform spectacular healing and miracles?
The truth is that Christianity grew from neither a god nor a man, but out of what had gone before. Is it really so difficult to grasp that Hellenised Jews, finally cast adrift from a devastated Temple Judaism, should concoct precisely that syncretism of man and god, which merged Jewish notions of historical determinism and its anticipated messiah with the mores of polytheism?
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Μηνάς Παπαγεωργίου / Minas Papageorgiou
Ο Μυθικισμός στο έργο του Θωμά Μάρα / Mythicism in the work of Thomas Maras
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The publication of “The Contradictions of the New Testament” (Divris, 1979) triggered fierce reactions. In early 1980 its author, Thomas Maras, found himself in court, pursued by church organisations and being accused, among other things, of blasphemy. It is hardly known that the first 65 pages of the introduction of Maras’ book (and about 20% of the entire book) consists of a rather extended presentation and support of the Mythicist views up until his time. The present study aspires to become a necessary and thorough supplement to the chapter “Mythicism in Greece”, which is included in Minas Papageorgiou’s book «Jesus Mythicism: An introduction«. In particular, the following will be disclosed: a) the nature of the information on Mythicism that Maras includes in his book, b) newspaper reports of the time that mention the trial for the book, c) the results of a closer examination of the footnotes to the introduction to Maras’ book that revealed new evidence on the existence of Mythicism in Greece from before Maras’ time, fit for archival purposes and not-only.