Ancient Egyptian Religion And Catholicism

[Didacus]

Waht do you make of this?

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[Archaeology cat]

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Waht do you make of this?

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Total bunk, to put it mildly. I'll go through some of them

-born of a virgin
-- Isis was most certainly not a virgin. Horus was conceived after his father's (Osiris) death and dismemberment, but Isis and Nepthys found all the parts and Anubis put him back together and he was at least "alive" enough to impregnate Isis

-Mother Meri
--the word "mr" is very common, and commonly makes its way into names (Meri = mry with the consonants). It essentially means "beloved". So you get names with variations on that. The etymology for Miriam (mrym for the consonants) is uncertain, AFAIK, but considering "mr" in Hebrew means bitter, it may be a variation on that.

-annunciation
--According to one myth, Isis had a dream that she would have a son who would avenge his father's death. No angel involved AFAIK

-a star
--The rising of the star Sirius was important for the start of the calendar with the season of flooding. I don't know of a story saying Horus' birth was heralded by Sirius

-foster father Seb
--This person is either referring to Geb (whom Budge mistransliterated as Seb) or Set. Geb is the father of Osiris, so grandfather of Horus, and Set was the brother of Osiris who killed and dismembered him.

-Horus has eye restored at 12
--I think he lost his eye as an adult in a fight with Set, so he couldn't very well have it restored at 12. I could be wrong about the timing of his fight with Set, since I've not looked much at that particular myth.

-baptism
--I've never seen any story of Horus being baptised in any of the myths

-raising of Osiris
--Horus didn't raise Osiris, Anubis did. And he wasn't raised to live in this world, but in the underworld, so not comparable to Lazarus

-etymology of Osiris
--Osiris/Usiris is the Greek version of his name; the Egyptian is WSYR, though it is sometimes put as Asar. Putting "el" in front of it wouldn't say "the Asar" in Hebrew, because the definite article in Hebrew is to put a he in front, so that would be Haasar perhaps. El means God.

-death of Horus
--The only reference I know of to Horus dying is him being stung by a scorpion as a child. Isis is distraught and goes to Nephthys, who tells her to go to Thoth (the god of wisdom), who gave her an incantation to heal him.

[Archaeology cat]

Been awhile since I've read Hornung's work, so I'd forgotten he does say that Christianity owes a debt to Egyptian religion. I don't think he holds that it was necessarily a deliberate lifting of the myths, but I can't remember.