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atheism, Atheist, christianity, horus, paganism, virgin mary
I have a friend to thank for the subject of this weeks blog. Alas I’m not sure she would have been aware of the history behind her Lady. I had of course been aware of the mythology behind it but once putting it down on paper the amount of historical data astounded even me, and made me even more aware of the myth behind the story.
It begins around 2,000 BCE – in effect 2,100 years before the christian New Testaments. Mut-em-va the virgin Queen of Egypt was said to have given birth to the Pharaoh, who later built the Temple of Luxor, where, to this day you can find the representations of the story on the Temple Walls :-
- THE ANNUNCIATION – The God announcing the queen was to become a mother
- IMMACULATE CONCEPTION – The God Kneph (holy spirit) mystically impregnating the virgin queen by holding an Ankh ( cross) of life to her mouth.
- THE BIRTH – of the man-god ( remember all Pharaohs were believed to come directly from God)
- THE ADORATION – of the newly born infant by three king (maji)
The Nativity of Amenhotep III at Luxor | Birth Scene | Temple of …
http://www.stellarhousepublishing.com/luxor.html
On top of this myth there are many more in Egyptian Mythology and to name but two of many:-
- RA – Sun God ( more of this later) was said to be born of a virgin mother
- HORUS – Was supposed to be the child of the virgin mother Isis. In the catacombs of Rome black statues of Isis with the infant still survive today from the early christian era. In these the virgin Mary is represented as a black woman and often with the face veiled in Egyptian style. When Christianity absorbed the pagan myths and rites it also adopted the pagan statues and renamed them as saints and apostles.
Statues of Isis and her baby Horus were exported to all neighbouring and remote countries where they were given new names in keeping with that areas religion, christianity, hinduism, buddhism and taoism etc…..
www.academia.edu/…/Isis_the_Egyptian_Goddess_who_Conquered_Rome…
Figures of Isis do duty as representations of Mary, Harilli, Kuan-Yun, Kwannon and other virgin mothers of gods.
Its difficult to assign the exact position of hierarchy which polytheists believed as they had numerous gods and deities. Beliefs differed and were sometimes vague. The better educated classes were skeptical and regarded these gods as symbolic. However, the ignorant classes both rich and poor, believed whatever they were told. The more improbable the better!
In India, Rama’s immaculate conception had been told to millions :-
- Rama was conceived by his mother drinking a potion from the God Vishnu
- The wives of Dasharatha drank this divine potion
- from one was born Rama, from another Bharata and a third drank two potions and had Laksmana and Satraghna
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Pagan tales of mortal women being visited by the gods were always conceived immaculately. There is no doubt that the christian myth is pure fantasy handed down from older mythologies. The virgin birth then is pure invention – with no basis in fact beyond a myth written in a man made fictional bible.
In reality, the ancient world abounded with traditions, prophesies, fables and myths of miraculous conceptions and births long before the invention of christianity. The virgin mother motif is common enough in pre christian cultures to demonstrate its unoriginality and non-historical factual beginnings.
So in hindsight the virgin Mary is like Jesus a mythological character, founded upon older goddesses. We could infact call her by any of her numerous names :-
APHRODITE
ASTARTE
CYBELE
DEMETER
HATHOR
INANNA
ISHTAR
ISIS
Of course if we are discussing Hathor ( aka the Virgin Mary) we should touch on the birth
PAGAN HISTORY OF CHRISTMAS
- Originally a pagan holiday celebrating the birth of The Sun God
- 324 AD – taken over as the christian christmas holiday
Notice! Christianity took over the birthday of the Roman Sun God, and transferred it into a the Christian Christmas Day, the birthday of Yeshua the Messiah. In reality, the birthday of the Sun God, worshipped by millions throughout the Roman Empire.
So four centuries after christianity you decided to make a pagan holiday your religious holiday. Funny that huh?
SANTA CLAUS
Even your Santa Claus, our fat and jolly elf, can be traced back to another ancient pagan Norse legend! It stems from the goddess Hertha who appeared in the fireplace and brought good luck to the home! By the way incase your thinking I’m erroneously bringing in Norse Mythology, to your virgin myth. The Norse God Heimdhal was born of a virgin mother. You get the connection right?
The Catholic St Nicholas you have been brought up to believe as the original Santa Claus is also a myth. He was a compilation of 2 separate saints ( one from Myra and one from Pinora) both of whom were – as the church now admits – nothing more than christianised water deities – can ya guess? ( possibly related to the Greco Roman gods Neptune and Poseidon) cute beards huh?….
It is indeed strange that a day never mentioned in the Bible should become your chief christian holiday – a day never celebrated by Jesus, his apostles or the Early New Testament ( but hey lets not get hung up on the truth huh?)
December 25th was celebrated thousands of years before your man made religion!
So in point of fact you may need to re think the whole purpose and agenda of your belief system – or should we start calling you paganist’s?
its a fact:- your religion is not mono-theist, take your pick. Do you believer in:-
- The Sun God
- Isis
- Horus
- Neptune
- Poseidon
- the list goes on
Answers on a postcard please to :-
Secular Scarlet
Do i have any fucking idea of my religion
The Universe
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virtuarat said:
Yet more evidence that christianity is a mountain of lies, built on a foundation of myths stolen from other, older civilisations.
Well done for a fascinating mythology lesson 🙂
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secularscarlet said:
No surprise to me… We only deal in teuth and facts… So easily debunked.
The enjoyment is studying various mythologies 😊😊😊
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Pathfinders said:
Amazing article! I Informative and funny you made me laugh out loud a few times! 😆 I’ve come to understand that these myths are all astrological For instance Virgo being the Virgin and as we circle around the astronomical clock through the ages these figures just received new names.
So as they say as above so below I do believe that these astrological figures were born in human form through the ages they took on a new body and a new name…???
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mubarakbala said:
Wow! Amazing D. I feared the truth might hurt theists like Frankie, but this is an irresistible factual ly accessed data. History is very different from myths, especially plagiarized myths, but why is it always the middle-East? How come some few million people evangelized our planet with age-old dogmas and religions? How come the aborigines of Australia did not export their religions to the world? Or Hindus? Or the Nordic people? Any idea why the semitic people are so successful with their propagation? Another topic for a future blog I guess…
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secularscarlet said:
Thank you so much. You have answered your own question M.. The origins of mankind started in the Nile Delta and mankind migrated… So that is why… Before the ice age… All continents were linked… Australia etc..
We are one peoples… And this is why i hate racism… We all came from Africa sir 😊😊
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frankiebird said:
Sis, great blog as usual and I have taken notes!! It was a history lesson and a half, but what about Mary,wife of Joseph, mother of Jesus, daughter of Anne and Jaochim, cousin of Elisabeth?? Who stood at the cross while Jesus was crucified?? Are you saying she never existed?? How can she be such an Iconic figure in the world for centuries if she never really existed?? Why do Theologians (especially Catholic ones) not know all the stuff that you do??
Can’t wait for the next one…. we should do a nomination blog request for you… I gave you this one, now can I choose someone else to give you another topic? 🙂 Fx
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secularscarlet said:
Hi stranger!
You can say the dame about Zeus, Apollo, Poseidon, Tjor, Odin etc they were all worshipped for centuries. Do you beleive they existed too?
Today there are 2998 gods world wide beleived and worshipped by many should we all see them as exisitng… And if not why not? They are as important as your god is to you?
As we have discussed before religion is there for people who do not beleive they are strong enough to realise the truth and for people who have a fear of death
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frankiebird said:
Sori for delay, been a tough week…..
Think you nailed it with the “death” call on this on sis!!
Maybe I am a weak person when it comes to my own problems and I sure as hell feel like it at times, but then I’m a tower of strength for others when they’re struggling, so who knows!!
As for death, I could not imagine for a second surviving this life believing that when it’s over….that’s it!! I’d probably go as far as to say that the reason many believe in God is because of the fear of no Heaven and thus not seeing our family and friends who have passed!! As crazy a concept as this is for you to understand, my spirit dying with my body just isn’t something I could ever accept!! I DONT KNOW for sure but it certainly makes my life easier!! Do I sound like a twat or do you see what I mean?? Be as honest as you usually are with me sis… I can take it!! I know we’ve had this conversation before but it does fascinate me….. Fx
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Gary Leigh said:
Hmm, wow. I recently made that connection (cause it was the only thing that made sense) and can’t believe someone else knows it, too.
Wonder how you worked it out?
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secularscarlet said:
Hi and firstly thank you for reading. My background is archaeology and as an early teen began my long years of study on Egyptology and the myths of Mesopotamia…. joining the dots was not difficult. 😊
I would recommend if you are interested in the origins of Monotheism to start by looking at ‘Akhenaton’ in the 18th Dynasty….
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Gary Leigh said:
Thanks. I will put that on my list of things I need to do. If you have an interest in myths, you may well find my blog, The Phoenix Archives of great interest. As all myths have their basis in reality, this covers where many stories came from.
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secularscarlet said:
Thanks I will take a look….
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