Newton’s Ur-Faith: Reconstructing the First Religion
How Isaac Newton tried to recover the primitive monotheism—using textual criticism, chronology, and myth-as-history to rebuild a universal true religion.
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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.
