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So the real Sargon early life is that he was son of a gardener (i.e. he was a Noachite) and the unpredictable cupbearer of Ur-Zababa of Kish. Not a single match with Moses at all, but a close match to the Biblical Nimrod (whom I have more accurately as Sargon's grandson Naram-Sin). Sure enough, the much later Legend of Sargon arises in the 600s BC and combines the Mosaic elements to the older elements of oral tradition. There is the "basket of rushes", the being "cast ... into the river", the being "lifted ... out", and becoming "son [and] reared". However, the mother's motive is not legal compliance as in Exodus but the mother remaining "secret"; the rescuer is not a midwife but the male gardener, given the name Akki that probably reflects Sargon's city of Akkad. The article scoffs at Moses and acts like the legend can be safely transported back 1600 years (at the same time as Moses's legend is being fast-forwarded about 1000 years). So this is a classic bait and switch. As I pointed out, Mosaic covenant formulae date from the period 2000-1500 by comparison with suzerainty treaties, which changed form after that period, so we know that Torah materials are older than the full Legend of Sargon, but in the link we read not a whit of literary criticism of the language of the 600s versus the 2200s. Plus, as usual for the telephone game, the OP complicates matters by misgendering Akki, and also implies that infant exposure and abandonment is to be comparable to the legal compliance and familial oversight attributed to Jochebed and Miriam. Now then, messianic characteristics not attributed to astronomy:
Jesus: Anointed, annunciation, Mary, impregnation by Holy Spirit, taught at 12, baptized at 30 (by John), ministered, traveler, miracles, healed sick, walked on water, King of Kings, Alpha and Omega, Lamb of God, betrayed (by Judas), water to wine, Truth, Good Shepherd, Only-Begotten.
Horus: "Mary", taught at 12, baptized at 30 (by Anup), ministered, traveler, miracles, healed sick, walked on water, Truth, Anointed, Good Shepherd, Lamb of God, betrayed (by Typhon), annunciation (by Thoth), impregnation by Holy Spirit (Nef).
Krishna: miracles, disciples.
Dionysius: traveler, ministered, miracles, water to wine, King of Kings, Only-Begotten, Alpha and Omega.
Mithra: miracles, Truth.
I think that (like Attis, who is entirely astronomical) we can dismiss Krishna and Mithra immediately as not being significant.
The video shows its source for Horus, which turns out to be Gerald Massey, Ancient Egypt vol. 2, 1907, pp. 907-914. I find that Warner Wallace reviews many of Massey's claims reliably in one place; Massey is presenting a skeptical view that attempts to tie together as many strands as possible that do not actually align (as later Egyptologists generally recognize) and that are poorly sourced. However, Massey gives:
"The Mysteries = The miracles": This first most generic line doesn't really give any correlation because the supernatural or unexplained element is present in every religion.
"Meri or Nut, the mother-heaven = Mary, as Regina Coeli": We see that "Meri" is an Egyptian title meaning "beloved" applied to all kinds of gods and objects. I have separately shown, from the American Heritage Semitic index, that the Egyptian and Hebrew forms of the word for beloved are cognate with a common Akkadian root "rwm". So it being a widely used appellation in both Egyptian and Hebrew does not indicate borrowing; rather "Meri" is not unique to Isis but was selected by Massey from among many epithets for its resonance. The connection that Nut is also called beloved and represents heaven is similarly forced.
"Anup, the Precursor of Horus = John, the forerunner of Jesus the Christ"; "Anup, the Baptizer = John the Baptist": Nothing about age 30, and this is likely Anubis anointing the dead, not baptizing or forerunning. This one is regarded as totally discredited in Massey; I suppose if a dog licking the dead counts as baptism, anything goes.
"Horus the Good Shepherd, with the crook upon his shoulder - Jesus the Good Shepherd, with the lamb or kid upon his shoulder": So this one is only iconographic, not an actual title. The shepherd's crook represented kingship in Egypt even in predynastic times; I suppose that since King David was also a shepherd this might overlap, but there is no "good shepherd" text for Horus as if it's an extant concept (Wallace agrees).
"Horus as the lamb = Jesus as the lamb": Not "lamb of God". Murdock makes this merely a reference to Aries. Horus is also connected to the Fish despite his antiquity (outside of the Fish eon), indicating the uselessness of such an approach.
"Horus of twelve years = Jesus of twelve years"; "Horus made a man of thirty years in his baptism = Jesus, the man of thirty years in his baptism"; "Iu (em-hetep) the child-teacher in the temple = The Child-Jesus as teacher in the Temple": Nothing further given. Wallace finds no original source describing Horus at 12 or 30. I pointed out that there is no anticipatory baptism of Horus anywhere. A search just returns me to Massey: Here is an unwieldy selection of him first speaking of "Jesus, or Iu-em-hetep" and blithely saying immediately after discussing Jesus, "Iu-em-hetep is portrayed as the youthful sage and precocious teacher. He is the 'heir of the temple,' depicted as the teacher in the temple; the boy of twelve years who wears the skull-cap of wisdom, and sits in the seat of learning. He holds a papyrus on his knee and is in the act of unrolling it for his discourse. This is he who personated the divine Word in human form as the wise and wondrous child of whom the tales of the infancy were told." This sounds like special pleading rather than any accurate Egyptian sources (which have no skullcaps, no age 12, no unrolling scroll), and it's possible the appendix I am quoting is relying on this hallucination.
"Horus as Iusa, the exorcizer of evil spirits as the Word = Jesus, the caster out of demons with a word": There is no "Iusa" and Massey gives it as a variant of "Iu-Su", which is stringing two names together indiscriminately. Wallace states that such a word does not exist in Egypt and there is no evidence Horus exorcised demons.
"Horus the word-made-truth = Jesus the doer of the word": This title, by Massey's analogy with "word-made-flesh", is clearly not an Egyptian original. Wallace finds the alleged title "the Truth the Light" does not appear in Egyptian history. Massey may be referring back to his own prior claim by equating this Truth with the earlier Word of exorcism (but not sourcing either). And that's all we have for healing the sick, but Jesus made many other healings than exorcisms.
"Horus the Krst = Jesus the Christ": Wallace points out that "krst" is not a title but means "burial" (not "anointed" ruler). Probably a false etymology.
"Horus walking the water = Jesus walking the water": No source given. Wallace denies any such passage.
"Horus the raiser of the dead = Jesus the raiser of the dead"; "Horus the raiser up of Asar = Jesus the raiser up of Lazarus": Exact same as previous. Asar is Osiris, who was raised by Isis, not Horus.
The appendix does not refer to "ministering" or "traveling", which are too generic to be taken as marks alone unless they were tied to a larger narrative. There is no reference to "betraying" by Typhon (a Greek serpentine giant overlaid onto Egyptian Set, but not noted for betrayal).
Massey's graphic on page 757 is also used in the video, taken from the temple of Luxor. It's labeled "The Annunciation, Conception, Birth, and Adoration of the Child". This appears to be the source for alleged annunciation by Taht (Thoth) and impregnation by Kneph (Nef). However, this is a known artifact constructed by Amenhotep III to depict a divine birth ca. 1400 for himself. In this legend his mother is not stated to be a virgin, she is not impregnated by a spirit but by Amun taking the form of Amenhotep's father Thutmose IV, his birth was (apparently) in a palace rather than a stable, and Massey arbitrarily selects three men out of a large group of attendants and designates them kings. So there is no special relationship of any of these events to the story of Christ. It is clear that the worship of Amenhotep and the special status of his mother followed the ordinary track of incarnation narratives already known (and anticipated in Genesis 6), but the various new turns taken in narrating the birth of Jesus are completely extraordinary.
It should suffice that a large collection of titles of Dionysius does not include "King of Kings", "Only-Begotten", or "Alpha and Omega"; that him being a traveler, minister, or miracle workers is insignificant; and that, as god of wine, there are reports of him producing wine (most notably Pausanias 6.26.2 as to Elis and Andros, which does not mention provenance from water and is 2nd century AD; also Diodoros, Pliny, Plutarch, who all wrote later than Jesus's life).
TLDR: Zeitgeist is resurrecting the failed methods and rejected interpretations of Gerald Massey with little new content in an attempt to create another stunning-looking Lincoln-Kennedy parallel that fails fact checks just as badly. Sargon's late legend postdates conservative dating of Moses, Dionysius's turning water to wine comes from several sources all after Jesus, and all the notable parallels with Horus (apart from astronomy-sourced) arise from one appendix and one illustration of Massey that are discredited for their wild imagination, free association of unrelated ideas, and horrendous sourcing practice. Disappointing that these always go the same way. One factor from Massey that can be taken appropriately in its context is Amenhotep III writing his own divine birth narrative in the 14th century BC, which is part of the flow of hero narratives that already existed among monotheists and polytheists alike but that does not anticipate any special detail of Jesus's birth.
Yeah thanks.
So the real Sargon early life is that he was son of a gardener (i.e. he was a Noachite) and the unpredictable cupbearer of Ur-Zababa of Kish. Not a single match with Moses at all, but a close match to the Biblical Nimrod (whom I have more accurately as Sargon's grandson Naram-Sin). Sure enough, the much later Legend of Sargon arises in the 600s BC and combines the Mosaic elements to the older elements of oral tradition. There is the "basket of rushes", the being "cast ... into the river", the being "lifted ... out", and becoming "son [and] reared". However, the mother's motive is not legal compliance as in Exodus but the mother remaining "secret"; the rescuer is not a midwife but the male gardener, given the name Akki that probably reflects Sargon's city of Akkad. The article scoffs at Moses and acts like the legend can be safely transported back 1600 years (at the same time as Moses's legend is being fast-forwarded about 1000 years). So this is a classic bait and switch. As I pointed out, Mosaic covenant formulae date from the period 2000-1500 by comparison with suzerainty treaties, which changed form after that period, so we know that Torah materials are older than the full Legend of Sargon, but in the link we read not a whit of literary criticism of the language of the 600s versus the 2200s. Plus, as usual for the telephone game, the OP complicates matters by misgendering Akki, and also implies that infant exposure and abandonment is to be comparable to the legal compliance and familial oversight attributed to Jochebed and Miriam. Now then, messianic characteristics not attributed to astronomy:
Jesus: Anointed, annunciation, Mary, impregnation by Holy Spirit, taught at 12, baptized at 30 (by John), ministered, traveler, miracles, healed sick, walked on water, King of Kings, Alpha and Omega, Lamb of God, betrayed (by Judas), water to wine, Truth, Good Shepherd, Only-Begotten.
Horus: "Mary", taught at 12, baptized at 30 (by Anup), ministered, traveler, miracles, healed sick, walked on water, Truth, Anointed, Good Shepherd, Lamb of God, betrayed (by Typhon), annunciation (by Thoth), impregnation by Holy Spirit (Nef).
Krishna: miracles, disciples.
Dionysius: traveler, ministered, miracles, water to wine, King of Kings, Only-Begotten, Alpha and Omega.
Mithra: miracles, Truth.
I think that (like Attis, who is entirely astronomical) we can dismiss Krishna and Mithra immediately as not being significant.
The video shows its source for Horus, which turns out to be Gerald Massey, Ancient Egypt vol. 2, 1907, pp. 907-914. I find that Warner Wallace reviews many of Massey's claims reliably in one place; Massey is presenting a skeptical view that attempts to tie together as many strands as possible that do not actually align (as later Egyptologists generally recognize) and that are poorly sourced. However, Massey gives:
"The Mysteries = The miracles": This first most generic line doesn't really give any correlation because the supernatural or unexplained element is present in every religion.
"Meri or Nut, the mother-heaven = Mary, as Regina Coeli": We see that "Meri" is an Egyptian title meaning "beloved" applied to all kinds of gods and objects. I have separately shown, from the American Heritage Semitic index, that the Egyptian and Hebrew forms of the word for beloved are cognate with a common Akkadian root "rwm". So it being a widely used appellation in both Egyptian and Hebrew does not indicate borrowing; rather "Meri" is not unique to Isis but was selected by Massey from among many epithets for its resonance. The connection that Nut is also called beloved and represents heaven is similarly forced.
"Anup, the Precursor of Horus = John, the forerunner of Jesus the Christ"; "Anup, the Baptizer = John the Baptist": Nothing about age 30, and this is likely Anubis anointing the dead, not baptizing or forerunning. This one is regarded as totally discredited in Massey; I suppose if a dog licking the dead counts as baptism, anything goes.
"Horus the Good Shepherd, with the crook upon his shoulder - Jesus the Good Shepherd, with the lamb or kid upon his shoulder": So this one is only iconographic, not an actual title. The shepherd's crook represented kingship in Egypt even in predynastic times; I suppose that since King David was also a shepherd this might overlap, but there is no "good shepherd" text for Horus as if it's an extant concept (Wallace agrees).
"Horus as the lamb = Jesus as the lamb": Not "lamb of God". Murdock makes this merely a reference to Aries. Horus is also connected to the Fish despite his antiquity (outside of the Fish eon), indicating the uselessness of such an approach.
"Horus of twelve years = Jesus of twelve years"; "Horus made a man of thirty years in his baptism = Jesus, the man of thirty years in his baptism"; "Iu (em-hetep) the child-teacher in the temple = The Child-Jesus as teacher in the Temple": Nothing further given. Wallace finds no original source describing Horus at 12 or 30. I pointed out that there is no anticipatory baptism of Horus anywhere. A search just returns me to Massey: Here is an unwieldy selection of him first speaking of "Jesus, or Iu-em-hetep" and blithely saying immediately after discussing Jesus, "Iu-em-hetep is portrayed as the youthful sage and precocious teacher. He is the 'heir of the temple,' depicted as the teacher in the temple; the boy of twelve years who wears the skull-cap of wisdom, and sits in the seat of learning. He holds a papyrus on his knee and is in the act of unrolling it for his discourse. This is he who personated the divine Word in human form as the wise and wondrous child of whom the tales of the infancy were told." This sounds like special pleading rather than any accurate Egyptian sources (which have no skullcaps, no age 12, no unrolling scroll), and it's possible the appendix I am quoting is relying on this hallucination.
"Horus as Iusa, the exorcizer of evil spirits as the Word = Jesus, the caster out of demons with a word": There is no "Iusa" and Massey gives it as a variant of "Iu-Su", which is stringing two names together indiscriminately. Wallace states that such a word does not exist in Egypt and there is no evidence Horus exorcised demons.
"Horus the word-made-truth = Jesus the doer of the word": This title, by Massey's analogy with "word-made-flesh", is clearly not an Egyptian original. Wallace finds the alleged title "the Truth the Light" does not appear in Egyptian history. Massey may be referring back to his own prior claim by equating this Truth with the earlier Word of exorcism (but not sourcing either). And that's all we have for healing the sick, but Jesus made many other healings than exorcisms.
"Horus the Krst = Jesus the Christ": Wallace points out that "krst" is not a title but means "burial" (not "anointed" ruler). Probably a false etymology.
"Horus walking the water = Jesus walking the water": No source given. Wallace denies any such passage.
"Horus the raiser of the dead = Jesus the raiser of the dead"; "Horus the raiser up of Asar = Jesus the raiser up of Lazarus": Exact same as previous. Asar is Osiris, who was raised by Isis, not Horus.
The appendix does not refer to "ministering" or "traveling", which are too generic to be taken as marks alone unless they were tied to a larger narrative. There is no reference to "betraying" by Typhon (a Greek serpentine giant overlaid onto Egyptian Set, but not noted for betrayal).
Massey's graphic on page 757 is also used in the video, taken from the temple of Luxor. It's labeled "The Annunciation, Conception, Birth, and Adoration of the Child". This appears to be the source for alleged annunciation by Taht (Thoth) and impregnation by Kneph (Nef). However, this is a known artifact constructed by Amenhotep III to depict a divine birth ca. 1400 for him. In this legend his mother is not stated to be a virgin, she is not impregnated by a virgin but by Amun taking the form of Amenhotep's father Thutmose IV, his birth was in a palace rather than a stable, and Massey arbitrarily selects three men out of a large group of attendants and designates them kings. So there is no special relationship of any of these events to the story of Christ. It is clear that the worship of Amenhotep and the special status of his mother followed the ordinary track of incarnation narratives already known (and anticipated in Genesis 6), but the various new turns taken in narrating the birth of Jesus are complete extraordinary.
It should suffice that [a large collection of titles of Dionysius] does not include "King of Kings", "Only-Begotten", or "Alpha and Omega"; that him being a traveler, minister, or miracle workers is insignificant; and that, as god of wine, there are reports of him producing wine (most notably Pausanias 6.26.2 as to Elis and Andros, which does not mention provenance from water and is 2nd century AD; also Diodoros, Pliny, Plutarch, who all wrote later than Jesus's life).
TLDR: Zeitgeist is resurrecting the failed methods and rejected interpretations of Gerald Massey with little new content in an attempt to create another stunning-looking Lincoln-Kennedy parallel that fails fact checks just as badly. Sargon's late legend postdates conservative dating of Moses, Dionysius's turning water to wine comes from several sources all after Jesus, and all the notable parallels with Horus (apart from astronomy-sourced) arise from one appendix and one illustration of Massey that are discredited for their wild imagination, free association of unrelated ideas, and horrendous sourcing practice. Disappointing that these always go the same way. One factor from Massey that can be taken appropriately in its context is Amenhotep III writing his own divine birth narrative in the 14th century BC, which is part of the flow of hero narratives that already existed among monotheists and polytheists alike but that does not anticipate any special detail of Jesus's birth.