Heru came of age with a special ritual, when his eye was restored. Naturally, i was skeptical and tried doing some research but found only biased opinions that werent backed by much evidence. However, many pagans and witches, particularly those who were raised as catholics, now regard mary as one of the numerous forms of the goddess. One of the more controversial theories sometimes called the copycat thesis suggests that many of the miracles, other life events, and beliefs about horus an ancient egyptian god were recycled and incorporated into stories about jesus as recorded in gospels and other books in the christian scriptures new testament. Virgin mary isis was also in egypt, was said to of had horus. Isis would, thereafter, be worshiped, as the virgin is today, as the friend of sinners, slaves and the downtrodden. The egyptian god horus was the sky god and the son of isis and osiris. Now is the son of man glorified and god is glorified in him. Other characteristics are also shared by isis and mary. Resurrection myths vs resurrection part 2 mary jo sharp. Many of these have had some input from miller, so well report those and add as needed.
Jesus is taken to egypt to escape the wrath of herod and horus is taken to egypt to escape the wrath of typhon. One of the most popular deities for people to claim jesus is a copy of is. There are some parallels between one particular cult of ra ancient egypt and jesus but it doesnt seem to have set the world of egyptology alight. Horus came of age with a special ritual, when his eye was restored. They even have paul as saying a woman should keep silent in church. At first, the idea of equating isis, an ancient egyptian deity, with mary, the the holy virgin of christianity and the mother of jesus, may seem strange and to many christians even blasphemous. Was born of the virgin isis meri in december 25th in a cavemanger with his birth being announced by a star in the east and attended by three wise men. Horus is the son of the god osiris, born to a virgin mother.
According to ancient egyptian mythology, heru was conceived by means. The parallels between jesus and horus a refutation of. Later horus, who was raised by his mother in the swamps of the nile delta, when he grew. Aset isis who gave birth and nephthys, who nursed him. Horus was born during month of khoiak octnov, not december 25. The legend of horus birth, according to plutarch, involved isis making love to the dead body of osiris and horus being conceived from that. King says that both isis and mary are called immaculate.
Moreover, mary is our anglicized form of her real name, miryam or miriam. Lady of light is a title given to both mary and isis. Horusjesus, isismary, osirisgod, amunamen, apophisdevil must see. Yes, most people supporting isis believe that jesus will return to support the caliphate. The historical veracity of jesus is determined from the evidence supporting the reliability of the eyewitness accounts. Was jesus a copy of horus, mithras, krishna, dionysus and. Jesus was just one of numerous crucified saviors found in various ancient religions. Meanwhile, osiriss wife isis restores her husbands body, allowing him to posthumously conceive their son, horus. Ah yes, that old meme about jesus being a copy of horus. Similarities and differences between the egyptian god horus. Ra sends anubis down from heaven and along with isis, nephthys, thoth, and horus, he pieces together the scattered osiris. Yet, all you need to do is to think a bit and the paperthin claims of jesuss stolen resurrection will quickly melt away.
Are there parallels between the lives of jesus and horus. Jesus was a mythical person created by stealing from pagan mystery religions. Some christians also may have conflated stories about the egyptian god osiris with the resurrection of jesus. Jesus horus according to egyptian mythology and the book of the dead, the ancient egyptian god of the earth, geb and goddess of the sky, nut had four offsprings osiris, isis, set, and nephthys. Jul, 2008 the stories of jesus and horus are very similar, with horus even contributing the name of jesus christ. After being betrayed by typhon, horus was crucified, buried for three days, and thus resurrected. Claimed similarities between jesus christ and horus and. May 01, 2009 icons of the alleged virgin mary with the baby jesus stem directly from similar images of mut and khnonsu and isis and horus. The startling similarities between isis and horus statues and the mary and jesus images is being largely ignored by these conspiracy theorists. The infant horus was born as the god of light for egypt, while jesus is known as the light of the world. I am nature, the universal mother, sovereign of all things. That title was also shared with other gods and goddesses. The main features of jesus birth, life, and death are reworkings of older myths and legends. What is isils aka isis, islamic state view on jesus.
Isis protected horus from an evil uncle, which was much like mary protecting jesus from king herod. The companion guide to the film zeitgeist outlines the basis for this claim by explaining, as does satan with jesus, set aka seth attempts to kill horus. Seeking hard evidence for the similarity of the horus and. Mary aka miriam the virgin who gave birth and mary the wife of cleophas raied him. May 24, 2016 around the turn of the century, the dominant theory in comparative religion was that devotion to mary as the mother of god stemmed directly from late antique devotion to isis and horus. Claims made in support of the osiris isis horus theory for jesus. Apr 05, 20 having done this isis engaged in incestuous necrophilia and became pregnant with horus who would become the first pharaoh. Horus and his onceandfuture father, osiris, are frequently interchangeable in the mythos i and my father are one. Isis used a spell to bring him back to life for a short time so they could have sex, in which they conceived horus5. Mar 20, 2011 osiris, his wife isis and their child horus. Horus had 12 disciples he traveled about with performing miracles, such as healing the sick and walking on water. The parallels between jesus and horus a refutation of acharya s. Horus was known by many names such as the truth, the light, gods anointed son, the good shepherd, the lamb of god, and many others.
Nov 06, 2017 in the end, similarities between jesus and mythological precursors fail to invalidate the historicity of jesus. How to quickly debunk the horusjesus myth i remember the first time i heard the story of the las vegas vacationer who took a girl back to his hotel room but passed out, only to awake the next morning in a bathtub filled with ice and a kidney missingthe victim of organ harvesters. In that view, horus, isis and osiris were transformed into jesus the son of god, mary the virgin mother and god the father by some shadowy first century community steeped in this mystery cult and which then authored the gospels. Early representations of isis dating back to 20 bce, depict the mother cradling her son horus, an image parallel to later depictions of mary and the baby jesus. Accorging to egyptian mythology, his father was murdered by seth who was his perpetual antagonist and was cut into 14 pieces which were scattered all over egypt. This article is the second in a series that includes my essay, horus is a sun god here i provide the ancient testimony and primary sources for the contention that isis, the mother of the egyptian god horus, was considered and deemed a virgin long before jesus was a twinkle in his fathers eye. On the first line of the post, it shows that jesus was born of the virgin mary, where the story is presumed that god himself placed the baby in her womb, so that jesus, the son of god, would walk the earth. Like jesus, horus was tempted while alone in the desert. Around the turn of the century, the dominant theory in comparative religion was that devotion to mary as the mother of god stemmed directly from late antique devotion to isis and horus. Both are revered for assisting women in labor, showing mercy to the distressed, comforting the dying, and protecting sailors, along with their status as healers and guardians of. Dec 25, 2019 ah yes, that old meme about jesus being a copy of horus.
Is the story of jesus based on the egyptian god horus. In the end, similarities between jesus and mythological precursors fail to invalidate the historicity of jesus. Jan 22, 2009 the parallels between jesus and horus a refutation of acharya s. Mary was not even used in the original texts of scripture.
Murdock is also the ceo and president of stellar house publishing, which also publishes extraordinary works such as man made god by mythology scholar and secular writer. Nov 01, 2012 another part of the problem is that the claimed parallels between jesus and horus contain halftruths, distortions, and flatout falsehoods. Is jesus simply a retelling of the horus mythology. The mother of horus was believed to be the goddess isis. Now remember, the roman church in them days dark ages were very antiwoman, for some reasond. Isis was sometimes called isis meri which is a title meaning beloved. The influence of isis on the virgin mary in egyptian lactansiconography, journal of the canadian society for coptic studies 34 2012 7190. Both isis and mary have primary roles in their respective religious movements as the eternal mother. Isis used a spell to bring him back to life for a short time so they could have sex, in which they conceived horus 5. May 26, 2017 horus was born of a virgin isis on 25 december in a cave. Oct 14, 2014 yes, most people supporting isis believe that jesus will return to support the caliphate. Every year, around this time, you start seeing memes claiming that jesus is a copy of some prechristian deity. I hope that points you to some interesting reading. Having done this isis engaged in incestuous necrophilia and became pregnant with horus who would become the first pharaoh.
Jesus vs horus myththe true facts faith, grace, and torah. The cults of isis and the virgin mary the daily beagle. Apr 07, 2012 as i have previously mentioned in my comments, the copy of jesus to that of older gods is not a modern topic, we know that the ancient churchfather knew of the similarities of jesus birth, and death with those of egyptian, greek, etc. I first heard the claim that jesus was a copycat of the egyptian god horus when i watched the socalled documentary religulous. What is isils aka isis, islamic state view on jesus christ. I, as well as several others, as well as several egyptologists you can find on the internet, know of no reference anywhere to a star in the east or three kings and newborn savior. While conspiracy theorists often point to anup the baptizer claiming he was later beheaded, there is no such person in horus story. It concerns the murder of the god osiris, a primeval king of egypt, and its consequences. Horus mother was indeed isis but there are no egyptologists who claim she was a virgin. The idealized relationship between isis and horus has been compared to mary and jesus. This article is the second in a series that includes my essay, horus is a sun god here i provide the ancient testimony and primary sources for the contention that isis, the mother of the egyptian god horus, was considered and deemed a virgin long before jesus was a twinkle in his fathers eye firstly, it should be noted that the matter of prechristian and nonchristian virgin. So where the christian myth didnt actually borrow from the egyptian for the male son deity, it definitely ripped off the iconography for the female mother goddess. The infant horus was born as the god of light for egypt, while jesus is known as the.
Was born of the virgin isismeri in december 25th in a cavemanger with his birth being announced by a star in the east and attended by three wise men. Everyday there are thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands if not millions of people trying to disprove the bible and mystify the story of jesus to where they will try to connect him to some other god of another culture such as the egyptians. Likewise, horus was born of the virgin isis, also called meri, who had relations she is documented as a virgin with the god osiris. She is connected with ships and rode in her great ferryboat, ferrying the souls of humans to heaven. But there are some things you have to understand before analyzing such a belief sorry if this is too long.
The god that tells horus mother come, thou goddess isis, hide thyself with thy child. Christians also may have adapted the iconography of the egyptian goddess isis nursing her son horus and applied it to the virgin mary nursing her son jesus. Set is the god of the desert who battles horus, while jesus is tempted in the desert by satan p. According to egyptian tradition, isis and her sister, nephthys, lament over osiris scattered, dead body and their lament catches the attention of the sungod, ra. The god that tells herus mother come, thou goddess isis, hide thyself with thy child. Statues of isis with the baby horus in her lap are nearly indistinguishable from those of mary and jesus and were worshipped in christian churches for centuries. Osiris, i am your son, come to glorify your soul, and to give you even more power. The legends of horus go back thousands of years, and he shares the following in common with jesus. Briefly, the egyptians believed that osiris was king and creator of the gods, and of heaven and earth, that he came down to earth to live as a man, that he was killed by his enemies, other gods headed by seth, that his body was mutilated and scattered, and that he rose to once again assume command in the heavens. In the bible we do have king herod trying to kill jesus from the moment his presence is made known, and he is taken to egypt to escape herod s wrath as seen in matthew 2. The osiris myth is the most elaborate and influential story in ancient egyptian mythology.
Horusjesus, isismary, osirisgod, amunamen, apophis devil must see. Jesus was a high priest of the ancient egyptian religion of isis and osiris. Heruhorus the story of heru, the son of auset isis and ausar osiris, predates the birth of jesus by at least 3,000 years. Similarities and differences between the egyptian god. Many on the internet seem to think so, and this video addresses this claim. So the story of osiris, isis and horus is found here. Horus was baptized in a river at the age of 30, and his baptizer was later beheaded. Its said that horus, like jesus or jesus, like horus was born of a virgin, had twelve disciples, walked on water, delivered a sermon on the mount, performed mircles, was executed beside two thieves, rose from the dead and ascended into heaven.
Osiriss murderer, his brother set, usurps his throne. Feb 17, 2009 horusjesus, isismary, osirisgod, amunamen, apophisdevil must see. While horus worship is now a dead religion, christianity. Seb was the father of osiris and his name is very distinct from joseph.
The stories of jesus and horus are very similar, with horus even contributing the name of jesus christ. Horus was born of a virgin isis on 25 december in a cave. Arise and take the young child and his mother and flee into egypt. Heres the hype, directly off of a youtube description. The horusjesus connection myth has much of what makes an urban legend appealing. When the egyptian cult was introduced to greece and rome, horus became identified with apollo and heracles, eros god of love and the sun. Horus supposedly walked on water, was born from a virgin, healed the sick, etc. Her mate that she was devoted to was called osiris, the son she had by him called horus. May 01, 2006 jesus was a high priest of the ancient egyptian religion of isis and osiris. How to quickly debunk the horusjesus myth come reasons. The horusjesus connection, the gospel according to acharya s, the 2010 astrotheology calendar and the 2011 astrotheology calendar. As i have previously mentioned in my comments, the copy of jesus to that of older gods is not a modern topic, we know that the ancient churchfather knew of the similarities of jesus birth, and death with those of egyptian, greek, etc. Horus never taught in any temple at twelve as did jesus. Icons of the alleged virgin mary with the baby jesus stem directly from similar images of mut and khnonsu and isis and horus.
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