Zuriat The Bright

I was wrong about Ikrananka here. What I was remembering was that one Ikranankan religion has a dying and rising god, not that it has a Divine Incarnation. It is easy to make such mistakes when comparing Christianity with other religions because Christ synthesizes so many originally distinct concepts:

an Incarnation;

a member of a Trinity;

a son of a god;

a perfect sacrificial victim;

the dying and rising god;

a Greek philosophical concept, the Logos;

the Davidic monarch;

a supernatural humanoid being. (Dan. 7: 13-14)

Have I missed any? Other terms would have been applied if they had been known. 

This might seem like a digression. However, the contents of Terrestrial scriptures, both Hebrew and Mahayanist, are living issues to some characters in Poul Anderson's Technic History.