Dupuis, Citoyen [Charles Francois]. - Planches De L'Origine De Tous Les Cultes, Avec Leur Explicati

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Illustrations: 22 folding plates. Dupuis, Charles Francois (1742-1809), French political leader, philosopher, atheist. Member of the Academy of Inscriptions and member of the Council of Five Hundred. His most important work was "The Origin of All Cults, or Universal Religion," in which he developed a theory to attribute the origin of all religious myths to astral representations. Dupuis denied the historicity of Christ, which he regarded as a mythological image of the sun. The beginnings of the mythological school (the tendency in the civil historiography of Christianity to deny the historicity of Christ) are associated with his name. Slabs include houses of the planets, zodiac, planispheres, calendar of Isis and more. 67544197 Read more