Images of Attis (Tammuz/Dummuzi) were nailed or impaled 
upon a pine
    tree. The Jews knew this and wrote "Cursed is he who hangs upon a
    tree." A goat was substituted for a boy in sacrifice to 
Dionysus at
    Potniae and a hart for a virgin at Laodicea. King Athamas had 
been
    called upon to sacrifice his first born son by the Delphic 
Oracle,
    Melenloas sacrificed two children in Egypt when stayed by 
contrary
    winds; three Persian boys were offered up at the battle of 
Salamis. It
    was only in the time of Hadrian that the annual human sacrifice 
to Zeus
    was abolished at Salamis in Cyprus. The God man Jesus was hung 
upon a
    tree; he was also the lamb of God. As such the sacrifice and 
Eucharist of
    the God man Jesus is purely Pagan in origin.

        Part of the older Pagan sacrifices was in the King 
sacrificing his
    only begotten son. Jesus was the only begotten son of the King of
    Israel, sacrificed to take away the sins of the world. This 
practice
    was overturned in the myth of Abraham and Issac when it was found
    detestable and injurious to the tribe or kingdom. Yet the God 
man Jesus
    was sacrificed in the flesh. This was done to appeal to the 
underground
    Greek mystery cults who had much in common with the Jewish 
Christian
    Cultist.

        "During centuries of this evolution, the Jewish people 
tasted many
    times the bitterness of despair and the profound doubt 
denounced by the
    last of the prophets. In periods when many went openly over to
    Hellenism, it could not be but the the ancient rites of the 
Semitic
    race were revived, as some are declared to have been in earlier 
times
    of trouble. Among the rites of expiation and propititiation, 
none stood
    traditionally higher than the sacrifice of the king, or the 
king's son.
    The Jews saw such an act performed for them, as it were, when the
    Romans under Anthony, at Herod's wish, scourged, crucified 
[lit. bound
    to stake], and beheaded Antigonous, the last of the Asmonean 
priest
    kings in 37 B.C." _Pagan_Christs_ page 44,45 by J. M. Robertson

        The mode of sacrifice was predetermined by previous Pagan 
doctrine.
    The type of sacrifice was also predetermined by Pagan doctrine. 
Both
    the sacrifice of the king, and the king's son were incorporated 
into
    the Gospel myth. The God man Jesus is both the King of the Jews 
and the
    son of God, the king of Israel.

        As stated before the sacrifice of the king or king's son 
was found
    injurious to the state. Before animal and grain sacrifices, 
criminals
    and prisoners of war were substituted. Yet the criminal had to be
    identified with the king. This was done by putting royal robes 
on the
    sacrifice and parading the sacrifice around, calling it the king.

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