Christianity certainly owes a lot to the myth of Osiris as told in
Plutarch ('Isis and Osiris', 12-20) and elaborated by Diodorus
Siculus ('Library of History', I, 11-27). Osiris, as any Semitic god,
is "essentially (a god) that (changes), (experiences) birth and
passion, (...) (is) subject to the law of death and rebirth", as
opposed to the "'Olympian' ideal of unchanging, perfect essences,
removed from the lower world of destiny" ('Three Aspects of the
Jewish Problem' - we have quoted so many excerpts of this book for a
few months, relevant as it is to the some of the matters we have
dealt with, that it is actually superfluous, not to say useless, to
order it, since, in a few months, quotations after quotations, anyone
good at puzzles will be able to piece together the whole text in its
English edition). Therefore, if Christianity contains a solar
element, it is not to be sought, as showed in the previous post, in
what it owes to the myth of Osiris, a god which, in Egypt, was
conceived of as "the protector of the rich and of the poor". The cult
of Osiris is in stark contrast with that of Tem (or Ra), the god of
the early Egyptians, who are supposed to descend from Atlanteans, at
least as far as Egyptian aristocracy is concerned. While Osiris
fulfilled the need of any Egyptian for personal immortality, which
developed at the time its cult appeared, immortality was a privilege
of the Pharaoh in pre-Osirian times. We witness here a beginning of
democratisation of early Egyptian religion, at least on the doctrinal
plane, since, as far as rituals were concerned, if there were public
celebrations of the Osirian cult, the ceremonials performed by the
priests within the temples could be attended only by the initiates.
Sometime before 3000 B. C., storming out of Mesopotamia, tribes of
light-skinned Sumerians invaded Egypt, conquered it, and imposed on
them their own culture. Along with their culture, those newcomers
established their religion and engrafted new gods upon the older
pantheon. Osiris is thought to be one of them, and, actually, the
main one. Osiris soon became identified with almost every other
Egyptian god and was on the way to absorbing them all. He was the
pattern for all god-men : "From first to last, Osiris was to the
Egyptians the god-man who suffered, and died, and rose again, and
reigned eternally in heaven. They believed that they would inherit
eternal life, just as he had done." (Budge : 'Osiris and the Egyptian
Resurrection') Osiris' advent was announced by Three Wise Men : the
three stars Mintaka, Anilam, and Alnitak in the constellation Orion ;
his flesh was eaten as communion cakes of wheat called the "plant of
Truth." Osiris was Truth, and those who ate him, as the Osiris
Eucharist, became Truth also, each of them another Osiris, a Son of
God, a "Light-god". Seder, the Jews' Passover, is thought to have
descended from the Egyptian Sed, the oldest festival of Osirian
regeneration and fertility. These are just three examples among many
others of the influence of Osiris both on the Bible and on the figure
of Jesus-Christ. There is, however, one revealing difference between
Osiris and Jesus-Christ : the former was restored to life, not by his
divine father, but by his divine mother, who was also his bride,
Isis. But, just as, in the Osiris' cult, Ra was called Osiris'
father, and Osiris was called Ra's father, so, in Christianity, the
Father and the Son are declared identical, and the Mother of God the
same individual as God's bride.
Interestingly enough, especially with respect to the Aesir, as
indicated by a scholar, "Primitive elements in Osirian myth show its
extreme antiquity, dating back to Neolithic Egypt. Before re-
conceiving Osiris, the Goddess apparently devoured him as she hovered
over his corpse in the guise of the archaic Vulture-mother. Like
similar images of devouring Kali, this points to an age predating
even the discovery of fatherhood, when reincarnations were believed
to be brought about by cannibalism (in this instance pre-
Eucharist...yet the eating of a god). Indeed, Osiris may have begun
as one of the numerous forms of Shiva, for his name came from Ausar
or Asar, meaning "the Asian" just like the Aesir or "Asian" gods of
northern Europe."
In relation to the "Semitic deviation of virile spirituality" which
was brought to light by Evola in 'Three Aspects of the Jewish
problem', what follows is particularly significant : "About 4000
years ago, Osiris' cult was established at Abydos, where he was
called Osiris Khenti-Amenti, Lord of Death or Lord of the Westerners,
meaning those who had "gone west" into death's sunset land. He was
incarnate in a succession of sacred kings who seem to have served as
sacrificial victims". As explained by L.F. Clauss, each race has its
own way of conceiving of and of experiencing every human tendency and
every value, according to its own nature. Evola, who realised this
perfectly, stated, still in 'Three Aspects of the Jewish
Problem' : "Among Semites, we see an affirmation of the virile
principle that is (...) either coarsely material and sensual, or
uncouth and ferociously warlike (Assyria)." It seems to us that this
is a clue to understand the "patriarchal-tyrannical side of Jehovah".
Just as Semitic virility is not to be confused with Aryan virility,
in another respect, the 'sun-god' as symbol of the ungenerate
principle of the universe, of the origin of everything which exists,
of the principle and the end of any manifestation, is not to be
mistaken either for the 'sun-god' as cosmic intelligence,
manifestation of the divinity, or, on an even lower plane, for a
deity as such, seen as provider of abundant life and natural vitality
in all their aspects, whether astronomical, sexual or agricultural.
It is in this sense that the sun was often identified with Osiris and
the moon with Isis in Diodorus (I, 11) - in Plutarch, there are also
plenty of data which confirm this interpretation. For ancient
Egyptians, Osiris, along with Isis, was essentially the heavenly
power which regulated the seasons, caused the Nile to inundate the
fields, made the grain to grow, and so on.
Osiris is also identified with the bull. When the Osirian cult was
first established, five thousand years ago, the precession of the
equinoxes during the zodiacal year had reached the point at which the
sun passes through the Sign of the Bull, at the summer solstice, when
the Nile was in spate and, therefore, the land which produced the
food of the Egyptians was watered and fertilised. Hence the
importance of Taurus and the sun as linked to 'salvation'. The bull,
along with the cow, one of the symbols of Isis, was believed to cause
the Nile floods and was seen as sacred and worshipped as gods. Four
thousand years ago, this precession had altered the position of the
zodiac, so that the sun passed through the Ram at the summer
solstice ; and then this animal, or the lamb, became gradually sacred
('Lamb of God'), even though the change was neither immediate nor
uniform everywhere. Moses is thought to have been in favour of
changing the worship of Egypt from 'bull' to 'lamb' worship.
Interestingly enough, in the exodus, Akhenaton's 'followers' came out
of Egypt under the sign of the lamb, but, having reached Mount Sinai,
built there a golden calf to worship, which angered Moses.
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evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "vandermok@a..."
<vandermok@l...> wrote:
> A source for the definition by Evola (about the Typhon-Jehovah
identification) has been probably also Plutarch, who says that Set,
the name of Typhon in Egyptian, means "something turning and
wriggling incessantly, and always transgressing the law" (De Iside et
Osiride, 49). It sounds little like us: Diaspora and wandering Jew.
>
> Osiris, forerunner of Christ, is not just a solar god, but on the
contrary, as Plutarch says: "Typhon becomes the solar world and
Osiris the lunar one" (ibid.41). This confusion could explain the
patriarchal-tyrannical side of Jehovah. Plutarch identifies Osiris
with Dionysus; Osiris is the sun, but only the one at midnight, while
travelling in the underworld and destined for the rebirth.
>
> By the way, this confirms the Egyptian roots were solar and lunar
meanwhile (two kingdoms and crowns, hawks and vultures, and maybe two
races); I doubt this idea can be applied to the first Christianity,
but it's an open secret as for the primordial Rome. According to the
legend, the Gens Julia comes from Aeneas, son of Venus and her high
priest Anchises, and Romulus was son of Rhea Silvia priestess of
Venus again, and of the god Mars. A confrontation between Aryans and
Pelasgians could be seen in the legend of Romulus, who won the twin
Remus watching more vultures flying in the sky. Afterwards, this
typical symbol of the Egyptian Queens, the vulture, became a solar
eagle. An affinity to Aesir and Vanir in the Edda has to be
investigated.
>
> As for Saturn as counter-part of the Sun, I think that it be a late
codification. Italy was called "Saturnia Tellus" because Saturn was
the wise king of the Golden Age. After, the Christians even invented
a Dialogue between Solomon and Saturn (in "Literaturas germanicas
medievales", by J. L. Borges) and the Renaissance has been the
finishing stroke.