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Definition of Euhemerists
1. euhemerist [n] - See also: euhemerist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Euhemerists
Literary usage of Euhemerists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readings in Folk-lore: Short Studies in the Mythology of America, Great by Hubert Marshall Skinner (1893)
"First among these are the euhemerists, who have held their ground from ancient days
... According to the euhemerists, the heathen gods were originally men; ..."
2. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"The personages about whom all the marvels of mythology have been told may have
been real human beings, as the euhemerists allege ; and yet they may have ..."
3. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"... could show to wondering strangers his sepulchre, with the very name of the
great departed inscribed upon it. The modern ' euhemerists ' (so called from ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... myths as personifications of meteorological phenomena nor the one- ~.de¡l
anthropology of the euhemerists nor the operation of diabolical forces as held ..."
5. Chips from a German Workshop by Christian Karl Josias Bunsen, Friedrich Max Müller (1869)
"Fortunately, it is easier to answer these German than the old Greek euhemerists,
for we find in contemporary history that ..."
6. ... The Native Races: Of the Pacific States by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"... were in the days of the euhemerists, and for too long after, unfortunately;
such a jumble as Aryan mythology was till the brothers Grimm led the van of ..."
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