The god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god.
William Robertson Smith
In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people.. And these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
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That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.
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The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.
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