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Patterson, in his Mithraism and Christianity, and Smith, in his Man and His Gods, both speak of the outward similarity in these resurrection stories. Toynbee lists "eighty-seven correspondences between the story of Jesus’ life and the stories of certain Hellenic ‘saviours’ ..." Adonis was buried in a stone tomb. He was mourned; then he was declared resurrected, following which he ascended into heaven.25
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