The Jesus story incorporated elements from the tales of other deities recorded in this widespread area, such as many of the following world saviors and "sons of God," most or all of whom predate the Christian myth, and a number of whom were crucified or executed. -Adad of Assyria -Adonis, Apollo, Heracles ("Hercules") and Zeus of Greece -Alcides of Thebes -Attis of Phrygia -Baal of Phoenicia -Bali of Afghanistan -Beddru of Japan -Buddha of India -Crite of Chaldea -Deva Tat of Siam -Hesus of the Druids -Horus, Osiris, and Serapis of Egypt, whose long-haired, bearded appearance was adopted for the Christ character -Indra of Tibet/India -Jao of Nepal -Krishna of India -Mikado of the Sintoos -Mithra of Persia -Odin of the Scandinavians -Prometheus of Caucasus/Greece -Quetzalcoatl of Mexico -Salivahana of Bermuda -Tammuz of Syria (who was, in a typical myth making move, later turned into the disciple Thomas) -Thor of the Gauls -Universal Monarch of the Sibyls -Wittoba of the Bilingonese -Xamolxis of Thrace -Zarathustra/Zoroaster of Persia -Zoar of the Bonzes The Christ of the gospels is in no sense an historical personage or a supreme model of humanity, a hero who strove, and suffered, and failed to save the world by his death. It is impossible to establish the existence of an historical character even as an impostor. For such an one the two witnesses, astronomical mythology and gnosticism, completely prove an alibi. The Christ is a popular lay-figure that never lived, and a lay-figure of Pagan origin; a lay-figure that was once the Ram and afterwards the Fish; a lay-figure that in human form was the portrait and image of a dozen different gods. ANd this is a well knows fact in VATICAN !!