That's just special pleading, though.
Do you also insist that there be an historical Osiris? Or Hercules? Or Marduk? Or Thor?
What about William Tell? Everyone knows the story. Do you know what it is based on?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palnatoki
Do you also insist that there be an historical Osiris? Or Hercules? Or Marduk? Or Thor?
What about William Tell? Everyone knows the story. Do you know what it is based on?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palnatoki
Quote:Saxo Grammaticus relates how Palnatoke (Toko) was forced by King Harald to use a single arrow to shoot an apple from his own son's head as the boy ran downhill. The legendary motif of the great archer forced to shoot an apple from his son's head appears among other Germanic nations, as the story of Egil in the Þiðrekssaga, William of Cloudesley in an English ballad, Hemming Wolf in Holstein, Puncher in an Upper Rhenish legend in Malleus Maleficarum, and most famously William Tell in Switzerland.[3]
