Kultet misterioze në Botën antike Mesdhetare
Mysterious Cults in the Ancient Mediterranean World

The myth of the Gods Death and Funeral Ritual Mourning

Summary/Abstract: In this article there is provided an overview of the mythical murder of gods in the ancient Mediterranean world and of the ritual celebrations for their death and their resur-rection. Under the light of the mythical facts, there is an intention to assert that the kill-ing of the god is a scandal, a scream of horror in front of the non-challengeable death, a lamentation over the meaninglessness of human existence against a grim and ma-cabre background where is still heard "the sound of the gravediggers who are burying God" (Nietzsche). This means that for the man there is no hope and the hopeless peo-ple do not belong to the future. To ward off the incessant consumption of gods and of men from death, the reign of absolute death, it is required the existence of an inde-structible reality that constantly evokes life. Consequently, the spirits of the dead are integrated in nature to be reborn as gods in the spring.

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