I see we got merged....good call.
Anyway, this sort of thing fascinates me (comparative mythology and such). It went from something that made me bitter toward christianity to something that helped shape my current worldview.
Odin nailing himself to a tree, for example, to be sacrificed to his divine half when he came to earth to walk it as a mortal for a time.....is only threatening to us if we make it such.
And there's even modern mythologies that adhere to these same tenets (though most seem to only think it's christian tradition they borrow from). But it's essentially many of the same elements of the hero story, told throughout time.
William Blake, famous for "prophetic" writings, hits upon the metaphoric meanings of Christianity in a way that mainstream churches could only hope, in a way that unifies all existence and calls it to something greater than words can do justice....and he was a "threat" to the religious order of England at the time.
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I'm probably rambling now. I've been reading Borges. He makes me wistfully poetic, but the result of it (in writing, most times) usually sucks.