Philosophical
Myths as Memory, Gods as Men
Long before modern skeptics, Sanchuniathon claimed the gods were once men, and myths were just history in costume. He didn’t worship Olympus—he audited it.
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The thinker
Phoenicia’s radical myth-decoder
An ancient Phoenician sage from Berytus whose cosmologies survive only through Philo of Byblos and Eusebius. He treated gods as deified mortals, offering one of antiquity’s earliest rationalist readings of mythology.
Based on The Theology of the Phoenicians: From Sanchoniatho (via Eusebius), summarised and reframed by Insights.
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