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[108] [112] Consequently, it is disputed how much influence Christianity and Mithraism may have had on each other. [112] Michael Patella states that the similarities between Christianity and Mithraism are more likely a result of their shared cultural environment rather than direct borrowing from one to the other. [113]
In Greek mythology, Orus (Ancient Greek: Ὦρος, accusative Ὦρον 'Horus') may refer to two different characters Orus, the "first to be born" in the land about the Troezen [1] and also first king of that kingdom which was then called Oraea after him. He had a daughter Leis who consorted with the sea-god Poseidon.
As Horus was the ultimate victor he became known as ḥr.w or "Horus the Great", but more usually translated as "Horus the Elder". In the struggle, Set had lost a testicle, and Horus' eye was gouged out. Horus was occasionally shown in art as a naked boy with a finger in his mouth sitting on a lotus with his mother.
Its influence has been on art and sculpture [9] and is still prevalent in Catholicism [15] and Anglicanism. [16] A view held by many modern commentators is that the four living creatures of Revelation are agents of God and heavenly representatives of the created order, who call every living thing to worship the Creator.
Reinhold Niebuhr described the modern idea of ethical and scientific progress as "really a rationalized version of the Christian myth of salvation". [120] According to Irwin, from the perspective of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), "history is a tale of progress". [121] Christianity inherited the Hebrew sense of history through the Old Testament.
The passive aspect of Heru-ra-ha is Hoor-pa-kraat (Ancient Egyptian: ḥr-pꜣ-ẖrd, meaning "Horus the Child"; Egyptological pronunciation: Har-pa-khered), more commonly referred to by the Greek rendering Harpocrates; Horus, the son of Isis and Osiris, sometimes distinguished from their brother Horus the Elder, [13] who was the old patron deity of Upper Egypt.
The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light is a 2004 non-fiction book by Canadian writer Tom Harpur (1929–2017), a former Anglican priest, journalist and professor of Greek and New Testament at the University of Toronto, which supports the Christ myth theory. [1]
Egyptian magic began to incorporate Christian concepts as Christianity was established in Egypt, but Egyptian and Greek deities continued to appear in spells long after their temple worship had ceased. [129] Spells that may date to the sixth, seventh, or eighth centuries CE invoke the name of Isis alongside Christian figures. [130]