The Skaggat Mechanism in the Book of Leviticus

"There has to be a victim upon which the community in a ritual fashion can exercise their demons," he says. "Whether or not he truly is guilty is immaterial to your art." Oedipus eventually dies and his sarcophagus is a sacred site of the gods, but once that goes away, 'the memetic cycle starts over again' He's divinized because the problem went away because of the scapegoat.