““Compare Jesus’ hesitance to be sacri ficed with the complete commitment of other deities in animist mythology who willingly sacrificed themselves for mankind: Prometheus gave humans the gift of fire. He also taught men how to save the best portion of animal sacrifices so they could eat it afterward. For these gifts to man, Zeus had Prometheus bound to a mountain where his liver was eaten each day by an eagle. But even Prometheus is not punished eternally. He is eventually freed by Hercules.””
