Hence we experience the existential dilemma as mortal sentient beings stranded between eternal mind and mortal decomposition. The proper context for this issue is the culture and the history of the ancient world. What is perhaps closer to what actually happened, where there is a known founder of the religion, is that structures of meaning and experience formed around the memory of the founder, structures that have endured the passing of time. The historical destiny viewpoint coming from the Zoroastrians is what conscious reduction of the wave packet is all about, so Jesus stands at the renovation portal. These are Greek.
Archetypes are a way the stream of consciousness interacts with biological incarnation.
We are a bundle of cosmic identities and echos of many incarnations throughout space-time driven by the collective and the cultural zeitgeist. Too much theosophy for me to deal with.