Newton’s euhemerist move: why he equates Dionysus/Bacchus with Osiris and the historical Egyptian king Sesac (a.k.a. Sesostris/Shishak), and how Bacchic rites mirror Osirian cult.
Newton’s Osiris = Bacchus = Sesac


Newton’s euhemerist move: why he equates Dionysus/Bacchus with Osiris and the historical Egyptian king Sesac (a.k.a. Sesostris/Shishak), and how Bacchic rites mirror Osirian cult.

How Isaac Newton tried to recover the primitive monotheism—using textual criticism, chronology, and myth-as-history to rebuild a universal true religion.