Wow, this thread went a long way since I last posted merely a day ago...
Originally posted by theindependentjournal
...we know what Jewish Law was and this tends to prove the fact that they believed that he was born of a virgin whereas the Horus is mythical crap
with no laws and or witnesses.
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...You also have the possibilit that the Egyptians got their Horus/Osirus from the JEWS as the great Pyramid was probably Noah or his sons
building...
Ummm...Not likely. The Set/Osiris/Isis/Horus Cycle of Egyptian religion
predates the First Dynasty...Perhaps even before the Egyptians
developed their Hieroglyphic writing (in-use at least since 3150 BC). The Pyramids of Giza weren't built until the 4th Dynasty. I've posted quite a
bit about the
history of Egypt from its prehistory up until the Pyramid Age & even
provide my sources. Even the historical evidence places Moses before Jesus & Moses is (historically speaking) tied near to or at the time of Seti I or
Ramses II (Literally
centuries after the Giza Pyramids were built). So I very seriously doubt that the Egyptians used Jesus as the
source-material for Horus...
Originally posted by Souljah
Jesus Christ is not Horus - Jesus Christ is the SUN GOD.
I wouldn't think so...I'll explain why, point-by-point.
Originally posted by Souljah
Horus for Egyptians was the SUN and the similarities between J.C. and Horus are all connected with simple rules of Astronomy.
Actually, Horus was associated with the sky (not the sun) but commonly called "The Avenger," due to his battles with his uncle Set (the murderer of
Horus' father, Osiris).
Originally posted by Souljah
On the 25th of December something special happens - it is called the
WINTER
SOLSTICE...
I have yet to find any real
biblical canon that names Jesus' birthday as December 25th...Jesus was born
before the adoption of the
Georgian (or was it the Julian? I never could keep those two calendars straight

) Calendar system. The Winter Solstice was celebrated by the
Keltoi (Celts) & was considered to be the
beginning of the New Year, as the sun began to renew itself (when the daytime started getting longer,
as you pointed out).
Originally posted by Souljah
What's up with those 3 kings? The 3 kings are simply 3 stars in Orion's belt, which point exactly to the place, where the sun shall rise on the
morning of 25th of December.
Any corellation here is sketchy at best...Using the stars of the nighttime is more common among the societies that used a
lunar-based calendar,
rather than a sun-based calendar.
Originally posted by Rhain
Early humans basing their lives on the environment.
Exactly. Many of the similarities between various religions
pre-Christian era were based upon the natural world & the seasonal cycles that
agrarian cultures
needed to track if they were to survive.
Horus did not come from a "virgin birth." In the Osiris Cycle, Set had killed Osiris & cut his body into pieces, scattering the pieces over the
breadth of the Delta Region of the Nile River. Using her power with the Natural Earth, Isis summoned birds to search for & recover the pieces of her
husband, but his phallus was never found. Isis had been the first to create the process of mummification & resurrected Osiris and, somehow, became
pregnant from Osiris...After which, she gave birth to Horus. Not exactly the "standard description" of a virgin birth, huh?
IMO, Jesus would be more reasonably linked with the pagan "Wood God." His mother representing the Gaia-concept of "Mother Earth," & his father
representative of the "Sun God." The Son, being born from the uniting of Sun & Earth, would die (with the Summer Solstice) & be reborn/resurrected
(at the Winter Solstice) as a representation of the seasonal cycles. This type of religious concept was most common with agrarian cultures (which were
later supplanted by the Christian religion) who used a lunar-based calendar to track the growing seasons. Basically, this "pagan trinity"
represented the gods of Nature & the endless cycles of nature.
In Egyptian religion
Osiris was the God of Agricultural Fertility (most Egyptian pictures of Osiris had him being green in color) as well as
being the Ruler of the Underworld Paradise; Isis was a Goddess of Fertility as being the Earth Mother; Horus was never said to have been dead & reborn
again at any time...It was only his father, Osiris, who died (at least
twice!). Any link between Horus & Jesus does not have any really
definitive correllation with Horus as the Egyptian religion has been accounted...Any "resemblences" are only superficial, not substantial.
Originally posted by truthwillneverberevealed
As i said earlier you and many others seem to be religous zealots clinging to something you thought was concrete slowly turning to dust.
Well, I don't claimn to speak for Byrd or any others that you seem to be referring to, but in my case, I consider my posts here to be more Theology
than zealotry. This comes from researching from
many sources & comparing the differences with the similarities.
Originally posted by undo
Yes, I'm taking it to mean, that if Horus was a metaphor for a planetary movement, that the planetary movement must be the basis for the story. What
was the story? That he died and rose again, 3 days later (which, by the way, I've never found written anywhere).
Which I've never found in any version of the Osiris Cycle that I've read either...I'm something of a long-time "expert" on the subject of
Egyptology & I think an "old-timer" like Byrd could confirm my claim on that...
Originally posted by undo
It was Zeitgeist who said Horus was the sun and Set was the night, and every night, Set would kill Horus and he'd rise again the next day.
This sounds more like a confusion between Horus & Set being compared to Ra's journey through the Underworld at night...Ra's journey is detailed in
the Book of Coming Forth by Day (Common name: Egyptian Book of the Dead). Willaim Budge wrote all about it & you should be able to find it in any
sizable public library.
Originally posted by cpdaman
it's got be the basic psychology of the human condition
This is a good way to explain what I consider to be the major difference between Religion & Science: Science tries to explain
how we got the
way we are, while Religion tries to explain
why we are the way we are.
Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
Once again, like I said, all I see is a bunch of people trying to validate their own personal beliefs. It's amuzing to watch, it really is.

In case you may be wondering about my religious proclivities, I'm not an atheist. I have nothing against any religion...I'm merely against
organized religion, as it has always been used as a tool by religious institutions to institute
control over the masses.
In ATS, the general policy is to make the
conspiracy in the topic implied or explained clearly: In BTS, there doesn't have to be any
conspiracy involved. If I were to post my
beliefs I'd do so in BTS, not here in ATS. I have not been posting anything according to my own
beliefs, but all based upon what I've researched over the course of the past couple of decades or so. In the case of this thread, I have already
implied the conspiracy by explaining the difference between Religion &
Organized Religion; It being the
organization that supplies the
conspiracy.