"On the third day he arose, and ascended again to the light."
-Poul Anderson, The Day Of Their Return IN Anderson, Captain Flandry: Defender Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 74-238 AT 1, p. 75.
"Two days he sojourned in the realms of pain.
"Two days and two nights.
"But on the third day he rose, and in his rising he tore apart the veils of illusion which are distance and time."
-Mike Carey, Lucifer: Children and Monsters (New York, 2001), p. 86, panels 1-3.
And the Eighth Day Collective in Manchester refers to what happened after the completion of creation.
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Kaor, Paul!
Well, I don't believe the "myth" of the Resurrection of Christ was a mere myth. Rather, it was sober, literal, historical truth. But of course writers are free to take lines, words, allusions, etc., from the OT and NT, to use in their own works.
Ad astra! Sean
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