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Differences between ancient Egypt religion
and ancient Christianity.
It has become fashionable to think that
ancient Egyption religion perfectly and
smoothly
matches ancient Christianity.
This is an oversimplified view.
The influences of ancient Egyptian religion upon
ancient Christianity are enormous.
This is because:
1. Egyptian religion as it was of ancient times
was in full swing until 452AD.
So Christianity and Egyptian religion existed
next to each other.
2. The Thoth religion has been absorbed into
Christianity
under the name of Hermes.
3. The city of Alexandria was the city of
science and theology.
The wise scholars of that city had much
influence
with publications and the spread of ideas.
4. Big movements in Christianity like the
cloisters and the church
of Valentinianus and the church of Seth did
come from the Egyptian nation.
5. The Asari Khenti Amenti religion (Osiris)
has been the role model for
ancient Christians. To write about this has to
be on another page..
6. The ancient religion of the Hebrew nations
was originally
a religion strongly related to the Hathor
religion.
After the exile in Babylon of the Hebrew people
the
ancient Hathor-Moses-Aaron-Mirjam religion was burned away
and replaced by the Jahweh religion of war upon
the disbelievers
and
revenge until the third generation.
In this webpage I will point out that
there are also some strong differences.
The ancient Egyptian civilization was in
existence
for at least 5000 years, which is much more
then
any other civilization ever.
During this time period there were many big
revolutions
and invasions by other nations and religions.
Well known are the Persian and Greek invasions.
The Greek invasion brought the ancient Greek
language into Egypt,
which was spoken by most of the ancient
Egyptians
during a period of 800 years.
There were also the invasions of the Hypsos
people,
very probable connected to the invasion
of the Old Testament Hebrew nations.
There was the invasion of the Sea-people,
which gave an enormous upheaval in ancient
for at least 300 years.
In the same way there have been two invasions
in very ancient times,
of which all records and memories have
vanished,
the first was the invasion of the Asari Khenti
Amenti religion (Osiris),
the second one was the invasion of the Ra
religion.
The invasion of the Asari religion brought the
Nile valley
into the high level of civilization as we know
it.
Asari brought in his company five other
divinities:
Ast (Isis) sister and wife of Asari;
Heru-p-khart (Horus the child) son of Ast and
Asari;
Nebt-het (Nephthys) sister of Ast and married
with Sutekh;
Sutekh (Seth) murderer of his brother Asari;
Anpu (Anubis) son of Sutekh and Nebt-het.
The Ra religion was never completely accepted
in the Nile valley
and stayed the religion of the highly ranked.
Nevertheless the veneration of the Sun always
was a constant part
of Egyptian religion.
Around the city of Thebes (named after the
Goddess Apt, a form of Hathor)
the ancient Sun religion from before all time.
Nefer means God or Goddess in hieroglyphs.
"Nefer Mut"
means Mother of God, the Egyptian surname of Mary.
The Egyptian Christians were the first to give
Mary this title.
That way Mary got the name of the goddess Mut.
Differences with ancient
Christianity:
1. The ancient Egyptians before the Asari
(Osiris) religion became known,
were very much aware of life after death.
For this reason, they mutilated
dead bodies by taking of the feet
and taking of the head of the deceased
to prevent his or her return to the living
after his or her coming back to life.
Although the Asari religion brought the idea of
the funeral
with the body as a whole, often mummified if
payable,
the basic idea of fear for the dead stayed.
There are indications that this habit of
mutilating
at least symbolically survived till the end.
Mutilation of the dead never was
part of Christianity.
2. A burial of highly placed people was often
accompanied by
human sacrifices in two ways:
-the coffin was placed upon a number of human heads,
which could be the remains of former enemies
or the head of servants carrying the coffin;
-the grave contained small images of people,
the so-called "ushabtiu"
or "abtu" which word most
probably means the "slaughtered".
The determinant in the hieroglyphic writing
gives the sign
for men and women, which means that these
"aptu" statues
were real men and women killed to serve the
buried person
in the after-life. The little statues were
meant to
replace their original bodies.
In several graves there were hundreds of these
"aptu".
As far as we know human
sacrifices at a burial
were never a part of
Chirstianity.
3. The ancient Egyptian religion had a persistent
tradition
of sacrificing
human victims in the temple services.
The revenge of the child Heru-p-khart religion
for the murder upon his father Asari
was the reason for an endless killing of
people.
From almost every dynasty in several thousands
of years
are known images of the massacre of human
sacrifices.
These victims were mainly foreigners captured
during the many wars.
Sacred human sacrifices were not
a part of the Christian belief system.
4. There was also a special feast dedicated to
the killing
of the inhabitants of the Eastern desert and
Sinai,
called "the smashing of the Antiu".
Killing of people outside the
Christian religion was always completely
accepted and it still is.
The killing of "heretics"
and "heathens" is still part of most history books
without any remorse or
compassion.
The smashing of the Antiu was
more a feast with a terrible content.
5. Prisoners of all kinds were day and night
without interruption
heavily tortured with
unimaginable cruelty.
The images of these heavy tortures are
everywhere to be seen, in papyri, in temples,
in graves.
This habit of cruel torture has always been
a characteristic of this ancient Egyptian
civilization.
Although torture is also done by
Christians,
it never was part of the daily system.
Ofcourse we think with horror of
the torture of the "heretics"
by church people, the
Inquisition, and the torture
of South American people by
priests of the Roman Catholic church.
As far as I know these tortures
were never aplogized for.
6. It is not really proven that human meat was eaten,
but it is highly probable.
Specially the meat of temple sacrifices was
probably consumed.
It seems that the discussion in the New
Testament
about eating meat in "heathen"
temples
could be related to the consumption of human
remains.
The idea of eating human meat is not a part of
books about ancient Egypt,
but there is much evidence for this habit,
that there certainly is truth in this.
Cannibalism was and is not part
of the Christian believe system.
7.
I took out the difference no 7., about dance
and sex.
Ancient Christianity had an important sacrament
in the Bridalchamber.
As long as we don't know for sure what this
meant,
we can't bring it in as a difference.
This has to be researched more.
Later I will add more differences.
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Updated August 07,
2009
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