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- From: millerl@wharton.upenn.edu
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- Subject: Re: resurrected heroes
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 23:00:42 GMT
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- In article <guest1.1.728084014@cardinal.sc107.wesleyan.edu>, guest1@cardinal.sc107.wesleyan.edu writes:
- > concern the "return of the hero." The only ones that I am familiar with are
- > the Arthurian legends and the legends of Finn and the Fianna, in Ireland,
- > and I wondered how many other mythologies around the world have a similar
- > theme. That is, the idea of a great king, and his companions, "sleeping,"
- > and, once woken, returning to the present time to rule again, or set things
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- Try Jesus and Charlemagne for starters. You might also count Haile Selassie.
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