How Many Other Jesus-Like Characters Have Been Worshipped

We know there have been many gods humans have held in their imaginations over the last several hundred thousand years. How many surviving stories are there about beings that are similar to the tale of Jesus? According to a site being passed around today there were a large number. 

Let's run through the deeds and traits of god heroes preceding Jesus that were worked into the Jesus story. There were other virgin births, raising others and themselves from being dead, had twelve disciples, was a carpenter, was not believed in his time, son of god and Old Testament snakes. Room was made for all of these in the Jesus tale.

I keep coming back to the number of hours each day people spent in the dark during both pre history and early history. Entertaining each other was and remains an art form. Early in my years of writing this blog I recall someone explaining the manner in which each Bible story unfolds. Each story in the Bible starts the same way a modern play, movie, novel or TV series starts. One by one early in the story telling the characters establish who they are and where they fit into the story. Once that is done the tale starts to unfold. Perhaps if there had been electricity 5,000 years ago there would be no Bible because people would not have spent so much time telling stories in the dark.

No doubt people enjoyed themselves telling stories in those hours of darkness and listening to the stories told by others. What we see today is the result of 300,000 years of perfecting stories.