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  2. Ibid., p. 1.

  3. Marcea Eliade,Patterns in Comparative Religion, trans. Rosemary Sheed (New York: World Publishing Co., 1967), p. 66.

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  6. Ibid., p. 257.

  7. Translated and quoted by Maarten J. Vermaseren,Cybele and Attis, trans. A. M. H. Lenmers (London: Thames and Hudson, 1977), p. 10.

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  8. Ibid., p. 10.

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  10. Ibid., p. 77.

  11. Ibid., p. 78.

  12. Eliade, pp. 93–94.

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  15. The basis for the translations of all the Biblical quotations isThe Revised Standard Version (New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1952). I have only altered the divine referring expressions.

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Clarke, B.L. Identity and the divinities. Int J Philos Relig 31, 133–148 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01307988

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