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As I often do, I had some passing conversation with a few mature men that drink coffee at the Evil Empire Starbucks today and quite naturally in the passing acquaintence bonhomie of men of a certain age, the question of Easter plans came up. One thing led to another and I mentioned that there were spring and winter festivals all through human civilization, per an earlier post. Of course, one of the men scoffed at the idea and I just had to pile on. Not just that, I said, but Jesus isn’t even the first or nearly the only god worshipped who was believed to have lived, died and been resurrected. If I said that his reply was “Nonsense!” or “Balderdash!”, it would be inaccurate, but for the sake of the sanctity and seriousness of the subject of the divine, I’ll not verbatim repeat his words, but insist that the offered examples encompass the gist of his remarks.

So, here’s the link to a list of gods known who have as part of their mythology a resurrection component: Wikipedia
I do not think the existence of other gods with similar mythologies, even much earlier mythologies, disproves the Crucifiction and Resurrection of Christ. C.S. Lewis supposedly believed that it was both true that the historical Jesus was resurrected and that the story of that event had been later mythologized.
Robin Meyers has recently written a book in which he delineates between those who worship Christ and believe as a central article of their faith in the Biblical biography of a divine figure with a resume of miracles and those who would follow Jesus and the moral code he is recorded as leaving. I haven’t yet read it, but I shall, I’ve promised myself.