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Рождение богов. Тутанкамон на Крите

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Роман Дмитрия Сергеевича Мережковского (1866—1941), впервые опубликованный в журнале «Современные записки» (1924), затем издан в Праге (1925). Первая часть «восточной дилогии» (второй роман «Мессия» издан в 1928 году). Действие происходит на древнем Крите, жители которого исповедуют культ агрессивного звероподобного божества, которому приносятся человеческие жертвы. Главная героиня, юная жрица Дио приходит к идее о приходе нового Бога, представлена писателем как предшественница христиан.

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First published January 1, 1924

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Dmitry Merezhkovsky

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Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky, (Russian: Дмитрий Сергеевич Мережковский) was a Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, and literary critic. A seminal figure of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry, regarded as a co-founder of the Symbolist movement, Merezhkovsky – with his poet wife Zinaida Gippius – was twice forced into political exile. During his second exile (1918–1941) he continued publishing successful novels and gained recognition as a critic of Soviet Russia. Known both as a self-styled religious prophet with his own slant on apocalyptic Christianity, and as the author of philosophical historical novels which combined fervent idealism with literary innovation, Merezhkovsky was a nine times nominee for the Nobel Prize in literature, which he came closest to winning in 1933.

The words he put in Leonardo da Vinci's mouth in his biographical novel Romance of Leonardo da Vinci -- "I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men" -- are echoed by animal rights activists all over the world and have come to often be misattributed to Leonardo da Vinci himself.

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Боги у Мережковского умирали и воскресали, теперь пришла пора им родиться. Для этого понадобится вернуться на несколько тысячелетий назад, к событиям, происходившим на Крите, принять участие в которых мог Тутанхамон. Впрочем, памятуя о делах его отца, боги уже умерли, уступив место в иерархии небесных созданий Атону. А дальше следует трактовать события в любом угодном каждому виде, поскольку знать историю Древнего Египта мало кому под силу.

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