![]() ![]() Oddly enough, the name "Mary" derives from "Miriam" in the Old Testament, which is often thought to be a hebraicisation of Meret-Amun ("beloved of Amun") - a common Egyptian name. Well, they did that for sure - my suspicion however is that the *biblical* story was not a Horus re-run (Moses - that's another story - Sargon was in on the bullrushes thing too, and you could argue that the massacre of the innocents was simply that old device all over again - there is no historical basis for it). There are therefore extensive borrowings of Christian theology from Egyptian religion, but directly linking Jesus with Horus, at least at the time the *biblical* mythology was forming, is not quite accurate. His father Osiris did rise from the dead, kinda, so there may be some link there, although resurrections were as common as dirt in near eastern religions (all the more reason to regard Christianity's version as yet another myth). Horus was NOT crucified he did NOT have 12 disciples. Do these link the "historical" Jesus with Horus? Probably not. The real cross of Jesus would have been a T-bar, not a "cross" as we have it today. The so-called "Latin Cross" (the now-standard Christian cross) derived from the Egyptian ankh symbol, first used as a "cross" by Coptic Christians, and co-opted from Egyptian religion. ![]() They were first produced in Alexandria, of course. Icons of the (alleged) Virgin Mary with the baby Jesus stem *directly* from similar images of Mut and Khnonsu and Isis and Horus. Is the link direct? Possibly not, but it confirms that such concepts were familiar at the time in the region. The notion of the "baby Jesus" does stem directly from Horus-Shed (the saviour), and the imagery of various little "cippi" (devotional stelae of Horus-the-Saviour) showing the child Horus trampling snakes is VERY suggestive of the imagery of the son-of-the-woman bruising the head of the snake in Genesis. The Trinity owes a lot to the various triads in Egyptian religion, principally Amun, Mut and Khonsu. The myth of Jesus in the bible didn't owe that much to Horus, but subsequent theological developments certainly did.
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