Egypt Revisited
Egypt Revisited
Ed by Ivan Van Sertima
0887387993 154p
Of course, I found issues in the Jesus=Horus section. Who is Mary the wife of Cleophas who supposedly raised Jesus with her children? Checked Wikipedia, it doesn't say anything about that legend.
There are 8 different Horus', I guess if we combine all their stories we get the Jesus parallels.
No Egyptian proof of the Exodus and yet a few pages later the "descent into and exodus from Egypt" are "proven" to be from Ancient Egyptian scrolls. Can they have it both ways?
"Many gods besides Christ have been supposed to die, be resurrected and ascend from heaven." It only takes one time for it to be true to change everything! Like the woman who writes romance novels and then falls in love- is that not real because she's told stories about it for years?
Didn't Egypt worship an 'Unknown God' with many characteristics of Jesus? Does that mean they knew He was eventually coming, or did they just have hope that the Jews were right and eventually He would appear?
Crucified? (72) was that done in Egypt? I thought that was a Roman way of execution.
(74) Except that the Gospels never specify there were 3 Magi.
(78) Horus was born from the Earth (male) and the heaven (female) and these are prototypes of Joseph and Mary? Yeah, and Athena is a prototype of me! If it was opposite- Earth female and heaven male- and they said it was Mary and God, ok that's more of a link. As is, eh no.
(78) Again with the 2 mothers, where is that in the Bible?? "born of two mothers, both of whose names are Mary"- handy that they had the same name, easy for Him to remember, ha!
Jesus born at Christmas is a later addition by the church, it's not in the Bible. In fact, Bible points to the spring- shepherds didn't hang out in the fields in the winter, apparently. Early Christians took over one of the festivals that different pagan groups celebrated at that time of the year. That's not a secret. Why start a new festival when you can just take over an old one?
(81) I hope the arguments on whether Egyptians were Black has been dealt with. It's unbelievable that in 1982, when this was published, there were still arguments based on no facts at all, just prejudice for their race. People need to throw out their Euro centric snobbishness and admit that (gasp!) someone who wasn't white did something amazing! The last section, the interview with Diop, was very interesting. Seems like an amazing guy to talk to! Not just book smart, but engaging and energetic as well.
8/10
Ed by Ivan Van Sertima
0887387993 154p
Of course, I found issues in the Jesus=Horus section. Who is Mary the wife of Cleophas who supposedly raised Jesus with her children? Checked Wikipedia, it doesn't say anything about that legend.
There are 8 different Horus', I guess if we combine all their stories we get the Jesus parallels.
No Egyptian proof of the Exodus and yet a few pages later the "descent into and exodus from Egypt" are "proven" to be from Ancient Egyptian scrolls. Can they have it both ways?
"Many gods besides Christ have been supposed to die, be resurrected and ascend from heaven." It only takes one time for it to be true to change everything! Like the woman who writes romance novels and then falls in love- is that not real because she's told stories about it for years?
Didn't Egypt worship an 'Unknown God' with many characteristics of Jesus? Does that mean they knew He was eventually coming, or did they just have hope that the Jews were right and eventually He would appear?
Crucified? (72) was that done in Egypt? I thought that was a Roman way of execution.
(74) Except that the Gospels never specify there were 3 Magi.
(78) Horus was born from the Earth (male) and the heaven (female) and these are prototypes of Joseph and Mary? Yeah, and Athena is a prototype of me! If it was opposite- Earth female and heaven male- and they said it was Mary and God, ok that's more of a link. As is, eh no.
(78) Again with the 2 mothers, where is that in the Bible?? "born of two mothers, both of whose names are Mary"- handy that they had the same name, easy for Him to remember, ha!
Jesus born at Christmas is a later addition by the church, it's not in the Bible. In fact, Bible points to the spring- shepherds didn't hang out in the fields in the winter, apparently. Early Christians took over one of the festivals that different pagan groups celebrated at that time of the year. That's not a secret. Why start a new festival when you can just take over an old one?
(81) I hope the arguments on whether Egyptians were Black has been dealt with. It's unbelievable that in 1982, when this was published, there were still arguments based on no facts at all, just prejudice for their race. People need to throw out their Euro centric snobbishness and admit that (gasp!) someone who wasn't white did something amazing! The last section, the interview with Diop, was very interesting. Seems like an amazing guy to talk to! Not just book smart, but engaging and energetic as well.
8/10
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