THE PAGAN COPYCAT THEORY - MY VIEW

I subscribe to the Pagan Copycat theory, but, unlike others, I think there was a historical person in ancient Israel, Yeshuva ben Yosef the carpenter's son from Nazareth, a revolutionary leader upon whom layers of solar and resurrection myths - 12 disciples like twelve zodiac signs, the miracles [healing fools and cripples, calming tempests, multiplying food, exorcisms, etc.], omens during his birth [new stars in the sky, animals talking, no one allowed to be violent, etc.], attempt made on his life by a tyrant in infancy, raised by Muggle foster parents in a foreign country, virgin birth in a cave on the winter solstice, and death by violent execution on the spring equinox, then resurrection, etc. - were added through the ages, starting with the Gospels themselves, just like it happened to King Arthur and the heroes of the Trojan War. Otto Rank [focusing on birth and infancy, with a Freudian/Oedipal bent], Lord Raglan, Joseph Campbell [the monomyth] and many others have found these parallels; already Count Volney - who thought all religions have a solar/zodiacal origin, Brahma and Saraswati are related to Abraham and Sarah, etc - and J-B Pérès - who said Napoleon having twelve field marshals may be a reference to the Sun and the zodiac signs, like Jesus and his disciples, King Arthur and his knights, etc; and that Napoleon's son by his Habsburg wife, the so-called "Eaglet," [the crops] was born on the spring equinox. Napoleon's Habsburg wife would be the fertile Earth, and her predecessor Josephine, the barren Moon. To Pérès, Napoleon defeating the Revolution is like a Chaoskampf between the sky-god and the serpent of chaos [Hercules vs. the Hydra, Thor vs. the Midgard Serpent, Indra vs. Vritra, etc]; the Revolution was very chaotic, described as a "hydra," and the word revolutus means "coiling," like a serpent).