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I was emailed some information by a friend of mine when i asked about the movie zeitgeist, and I’m unsure what this all means. I’m confused.
This is what he sent me:
'Horus was born in the month of Khoiak which is November time, however, because the calendar changed under the priest of On during Egypt’s dynasties, the date was moved towards the return of light days (after December the 25th).
Acharya:
"Whatever we make of the original mythIsis seems to have been originally a virgin (or, perhaps, sexless) goddess, and in the later period of Egyptian religion she was again considered a virgin goddess, demanding very strict abstinence from her devotees. It is at this period, apparently, that the birthday of Horus was annually celebrated, about December 25th, in the temples. As both Macrobius and the Christian writer [of the “Paschal Chronicle”] say, a figure of Horus as a baby was laid in a manger, in a scenic reconstruction of a stable, and a statue of Isis was placed beside it. Horus was, in a sense, the Savior of mankind. He was their avenger against the powers of darkness; he was the light of the world. His birth-festival was a real Christmas before Christ.
James Frazer also makes the same claim:
“The ritual of the nativity, as it appears to have been celebrated in Syria and Egypt, was remarkable. The celebrants retired into certain inner shrines, from which at midnight they issued with a loud cry, “The Virgin has brought forth! The light is waxing!” The Egyptians even represented the new-born sun by the image of an infant which on his birthday, the winter solstice, they brought forth and exhibited to his worshippers. No doubt the Virgin who thus conceived and bore a son on the twenty-fifth of December was the great Oriental goddess whom the Semites called the Heavenly Virgin or simply the Heavenly Goddess.” 16
Horus was born on the 21st December because this date coincides with the winter soltice according to the Egyptian calendar and in mythology comprising the concept of light over dark; good over evil. The calendar was moved to the 25th date much later. It still proves the same concept concept: messiah born on the winter solstice.’
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What does this all mean?
This is what he sent me:
'Horus was born in the month of Khoiak which is November time, however, because the calendar changed under the priest of On during Egypt’s dynasties, the date was moved towards the return of light days (after December the 25th).
Acharya:
"Whatever we make of the original mythIsis seems to have been originally a virgin (or, perhaps, sexless) goddess, and in the later period of Egyptian religion she was again considered a virgin goddess, demanding very strict abstinence from her devotees. It is at this period, apparently, that the birthday of Horus was annually celebrated, about December 25th, in the temples. As both Macrobius and the Christian writer [of the “Paschal Chronicle”] say, a figure of Horus as a baby was laid in a manger, in a scenic reconstruction of a stable, and a statue of Isis was placed beside it. Horus was, in a sense, the Savior of mankind. He was their avenger against the powers of darkness; he was the light of the world. His birth-festival was a real Christmas before Christ.
James Frazer also makes the same claim:
“The ritual of the nativity, as it appears to have been celebrated in Syria and Egypt, was remarkable. The celebrants retired into certain inner shrines, from which at midnight they issued with a loud cry, “The Virgin has brought forth! The light is waxing!” The Egyptians even represented the new-born sun by the image of an infant which on his birthday, the winter solstice, they brought forth and exhibited to his worshippers. No doubt the Virgin who thus conceived and bore a son on the twenty-fifth of December was the great Oriental goddess whom the Semites called the Heavenly Virgin or simply the Heavenly Goddess.” 16
Horus was born on the 21st December because this date coincides with the winter soltice according to the Egyptian calendar and in mythology comprising the concept of light over dark; good over evil. The calendar was moved to the 25th date much later. It still proves the same concept concept: messiah born on the winter solstice.’
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What does this all mean?