The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors: Christianity Before Christ

Kersey Graves

Apr 2007 · Cosimo, Inc.

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Khrisna of India. Thammuz of Syria. Esus of the Celtic Druids. Mithra of Persia. Quexalcoati of Mexico. All were crucified gods, and all met their fates hundreds of years before Jesus appeared on the scene. In this foundational work of modern atheism, American spiritualist KERSEY GRAVES (1813-1883) breaks the Christ myth down into its component parts and ably demonstrates how the story of Jesus has its roots in the depths of antiquity. Here you'll read about the surprising prevalence throughout global folklore of: . the miraculous and immaculate conception of the gods . stars that point out the time and place of a savior's birth . angels, shepherds, and magi visiting an infant savior . the 25th of December as the universal birth date of gods . saviors who descend into Hell . and much more. This is essential reading for students of comparative mythology and modern freethinkers. Also available from Cosimo: Graves's The Biography of Satan and The Bible of Bibles

Ratings and reviews

As like any rant/hating book the author shows one side of the story and changes slight details to make what could've been a decent book into essentially and aetheist radicalist book. Explain why Jesus became so popular than if nobody know the other saviours then who cares? This book is useless because had the author not told you this crap you would've never known/cared. If the others had mattered as much as the Jesus they would've had to have become more popular this means that your book makes no sense.

This was all done by an author called Acharya S who wrote the Christ Conspiracy in which she makes up dates and birth mythologies and applies them to the central figures of all the major religions. She doesn't even site source material for these comparisons and this book is just a copy of that. Nice try but it's all been said before and disproven by many professors of theology.

Interesting read. In general it points to the fact that several people were born, followed and worshiped with a similar story of being divine, virgin born, and of parallel doctrine. If you are looking for an absolute direct correlation of words and actions you wont find it in this book. Instead it points out various instances of similarities to the Biblical Jesus found in multiple countries/religions. The book does a poor job of citing the sources he pulled the information from. Ambiguous names and books are given and aren't cited to modern standards so its difficult to verify the various claims and statements.