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Open Question: Why do people so heavily deny christianity is a syncretic religion?
"The works of art, the ideas, the expressions, and the heresies of the first four centuries of the Christian era cannot be well studied without a right comprehension of the nature and influence of the Horus myth."
– W. R. Cooper, (The Horus Myth in its Relation to Christianity, p49)
Isis was part of a sacred triad. The Egyptians deified so-called 'emanations' of the supreme, unknowable godhead, typically grouping them into trinities (in fact, a whole hierarchy of trinities). Thus Isis-Osiris-Horus, Amun-Re-Mut-Khons, Atum-Shu-Tefnut-Mahet, etc., etc., reigned for forty centuries, an eternal, evolving godhead. Crucially, the Egyptian priests linked the gods directly to their ruling kings:
'Throughout the 4000 years of Egyptian history every Pharaoh was the incarnation of the youthful Horus, and therefore the son of Isis, the Goddess Mother who had suckled and reared him. At death ... as Osiris he held sway over 'Those Yonder' in the shadowy kingdom of the dead.'
– R. E. Witt (Isis in the Ancient World, p15)
Harpakhrad
Harpakhrad: Horus the wonder boy sucks his thumb
Horus, originally a sky god (hence the falcon's head) became one of the most important of Egyptian gods. Over time Horus absorbed the characteristics of many other deities.
As his cult spread north from Upper Egypt Horus took numerous local names. As Haroeris he became the God of Light; as Harmakhis he became the God of Dawn; As Harpakhrad he was 'Horus the child'. He succeeded to the leadership of Re by merger, becoming Re-Horakhty.
Along with his new identities Horus became more fully humanised, represented on Earth first by the pharaoh and later, by the hero of the Christian myth.
young Horus
A young, humanoid Horus (note side lock of hair) crushes two crocodiles (evil) underfoot.
The statuette is incised with spells against snakes, scorpions etc.; water poured over it became holy water.
In the legend, Horus was baptized with water by Anubis.
isis-mary
Horus was traditionally depicted as having the body of a man with the head of a falcon or hawk. However syncretism during the Greco-Roman period (and a distaste for animal worship) meant the god became fully humanoid, a boy child, indeed, for Isis – otherwise known as Mary.
Horus on horse-back
(Egypt, 4th century AD)
Here, Horus crushes Seth – the murderer of his father, Osiris – represented as a crocodile.
Christian Horus
(Egypt, 7th century tapestry)
Horus Saint
(Egypt, 18th century)
The image of Horus on horse-back was unknown in Egypt before the Greek era. But the myth was ancient: Good conquers Evil.
In 'Coptic' Christianity, though the artistry had degenerated, the story remained the same. "Horus' is now a Christian and the bad guys are the pagans.
Thoroughly Christianised in later centuries, the crocodile became a 'dragon,' the god a Christian knight.
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