Acharya S lists Adonis (again, without detail!) as another parallel for Christ. Let's have a look at this -- our source is Smith's Origins of Biblical Monotheism [116].

Adonis is recknoned an ancient deity, but the only account of his death comes from a text dated to the second century -- another case of "too late to influence the story of Jesus" -- in which it is described how Addy's death at the hands of a boar was mourned by worshippers in Byblos. After mourning, worshippers the next day "proclaim that he lives and send him into the air." Resurrection? It sounds much more like Roman apotheosis as stated; in any event no method of getting alive again is described. Other rituals known for Adonis seem to connect him to vegetation, and accentuate his death, with "no hint of rebirth." J. Z. Smith, the scholar of the history of religions, notes that "classical accounts of Adonis neither mention nor describe his rising from death and that only accounts fashioned by Christian writers introduces the theme of Adonis's resurrection." Too little, too late.

Other characteristics of Adonis are no help for the Acharya clan: He is young and good-looking, a lousy hunter, and "a paragon of anti-heroic behavior." No Jesus here. Freke and Gandy list Adonis with their pagan christ-figures, but the only specific they offer is that Adonis had a "virgin mother" named Myrrha [29] and a comparison is made between communion and "the bones of the dead Adonis" which were "said to be ground on a mill and then scattered to the wind." [48] The latter claim is derived from Frazer and is such an enormous non-parallel that it deserves no comment, unless Freke and Gandy wish to add that Adonisian communion consisted of running around in the wind catching Adnois' ashes in cups and between slices of bread. The former I find verified nowhere. Here it is said, "The generally accepted version is that Aphrodite compelled Myrrha (or Smyrna) to commit incest with Theias, her father, the king of Assyria. Her nurse helped her with this trickery to become pregnant, and when Theias discovered this he chased her with a knife. To avoid his wrath the gods turned her into a myrrh tree. The tree later burst open, allowing Adonis to emerge. Another version says that after she slept with her father she hid in a forest where Aphrodite changed her into a tree. Theias struck the tree with an arrow, causing the tree to open and Adonis to be born. Yet another version says a wild boar open the tree with its tusks and freed the child; this is considered to be a foreshadowing of his death." Virgin? Try that excuse on a date!

Finally it is said that "Icthys" (as in the Christian fish symbol) "had for centuries been the Greek name for Adonis" [76], a matter which, if true, we consider conceptually refuted by the linked article.

In short, yet another losing proposition for the Christ-myth crowd.