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- verb Present participle of
euhemerize .
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Examples
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If Greece had not stepped in, myth-making and euhemerizing, who would have saved the day at Lake Regillus?
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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On the anthropinizing or the distinctly euhemerizing treatment of these two personages see Rhys, _Celtic Folklore_, Index, s. vv.
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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"Christian" sect expect a historical savior or a spiritual one?), religious-meme change (how quickly did religious trends change and how much could they have changed over that period of time-for example, euhemerizing a legendary figure of Jesus into a historical setting), and proto-Christian origins (was there a "Christianity" before the first-century CE and where did it originate?).
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