Parallelomania and parallelophobia
In historical analysis, biblical criticism and comparative mythology/religion, parallelomania has been used to refer to a phenomenon (mania) where authors perceive apparent similarities and construct parallels and analogies without historical basis. The inverse phenomenon, which occurs when suggested similarities, for example between the Bible and Ancient Near East cultures, are dismissed out of hand, is called parallelophobia.
Venus and Cupid lamenting the dead Adonis (1656) by Cornelis Holsteyn
The dying-and-rising deity motif may be an example of parallelomania, and dismissing it might be an example of parallelophobia
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