Resurrection

It occurs to me that this is quite common: resurrection, I mean. Whilst the sun rises and falls, only to be reborn the following day, it is pretty much the same size and shape every day. Just a bit higher or lower in the sky. Whereas the moon dies every night and is reborn, but manages to wax and wane as well. Now if I was an unsophisticated cave dweller I'd be pretty amazed by that... in fact I'm amazed anyway. It gets confusing but Osiris had to be resurrected to make sense of his life. Mithra, Adonis and Tammuz similarly were reborn, and they were by no means the only ones. It's not hard to see a connection between the annual death and rebirth of Gods and the yearly cycle of rebirth that is represented by the seasons. It's not surprising that new religions continued the theme, accepting the mantle of ideas that went before.