Paganism
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many morphic gods; the Wanderer
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pure monotheism
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one never incarnated god; prophets
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Petrine and Pauline Christianity
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a man raised up by God
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Gnosticism
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apparent incarnation
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Hinduism
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many temporary descents
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Johannine Christianity
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one permanent embodiment
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Krishna and Aslan
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perennial embodiment
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This sequence begins and ends with gods like men, and sometimes like animals. "Morphic" means anthropomorphic and sometimes zoomorphic: Anubis, Ganesh, the evolutionary avatars of Vishnu. The Wanderer is simply Odin/Wotan on Earth. Krishna is the supreme deity on Earth according to some of his devotees.
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