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(The long identification of Faust with Johann Fust, Gutenberg's collaborator, first found in a Dutch chronicle of 1531, was an unconscious euhemeristic recognition of printing's revolutionary importance for the dissemination of new ideas.)

Dictionary of the History of Ideas STUART ATKINS 1968

Of the several generally recognized theories of the interpretation of myth: the historical, or euhemeristic; the physical, or cosmographical; the allegorical; and the allegorical-theological, the writers of the seven - teenth century seem to have been chiefly occupied with the latter two, and it is interesting that each of these theories finds respective support from two of the most eminent literary figures who lived at the turn of the century.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas FREDERICK HARD 1968

Byblos is a euhemeristic interpretation of an alleged Phoenician cosmogony, and a composition of little merit.

The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont

Woden's wooing is the best part of this story, half spoilt, however, by euhemeristic tone and lack of epic dignity.

The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

Even when Greek mythical stories are introduced, as in the euhemeristic description of the origin of the Greek dynasties of gods in the third book, the whole is conceived under the forms of Jewish or Christian thought.

Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877

But these euhemeristic explanations are common in the Far East and the real origin of the Bodhisattvas may be quite different.] [Footnote 65: _E. g.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896

[49] Let us mention the euhemeristic theory of Herbert Spencer, taken up recently by Grant Allen (_The Evolution of the Idea of

Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron 1877

On another side the vast accumulation of the religious ideas and usages of lower tribes led Herbert Spencer to his euhemeristic view. [

Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877

This latter view may be a bit of euhemeristic rationalism. [

Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877