Um - Jesus was the first and only instance in any culture of a God deciding to come down and live amongst His creation as one of them... - no, actually most gods lived among the people rather than in the unattainable sky, if you look at the history of religion.

And lots of gods before Jesus died.

Now, it may be that the god of Abraham might be the first to have deliberately SENT an avatar to die, specifically - but that doesn't seem to be in that god's favor...