Response to Joey and some revisions.

After checking out your response i did a little more reading and the hebrew name commonly translated to "Joshua" is "Yehoshua." A contracted hebrew-aramaic version is "Ye'shua," which was what Jesus was likely called. This name was later Hellenized into the Greek Iesous, transliterated into the latin Iēsus, and finally anglocized into "Jesus." So that makes more sense to me now. I had previously thought it was done to avoid confusion with the OT Joshua... who was quite a bit less than "Christ-like," with the ethnic cleansing and "sanctioned" raping that occured in Canaan. Strange that this very morbid and seemingly inexcusable story (most "excuses" involve either the Canaanites being considered descendants of the Nephilim or cite very dubious evidence of child sacrifice) appears in the OT when little archaelogical evidence suggests anything like that occuring in Palestine around that time period. Given that it may not have happened I am curious as to why a people would want to claim responsibility for such actions, if they did not commit them.

And my criticism of the word "symbology" is based completely on Willem Daefoe's character mocking someone for using that term in the movie Boondock Saints. Probably should've consulted a dictionary before adding that... oh well..

I thought it interesting that the narrator of these films completely left out Satan/Lucifer, since he seems to be easily the most dubious character in the entire bible and nearly entirely derived from Egyptian mythology.

Also I stated that there was little or no Egyptological evidence of Horus being born of a virgin. This may be true, but Ra (who was often equated with, merged with, or considered part of Horus), could possibly have been born of a virgin. The merging of Horus and Ra may account for what I originally percieved as an inaccuracy in the film. The following picture of an inscription at a temple reportedly describes the virginal birth of Ra(or possibly Horus).


But since I don't read heiroglyphics, i can't say with certainty. So the virgin birth theme may originate in Egypt, but as for the 12 disciples, I did not see anything to indicate that this originated in Egypt. Another interesting thing about Horus is his Annointing. He was annointed by Anubis, who also had a religious following. After this he was refered to has Horus Karast, meaning Horus the Annointed or Horus the Embalmed. Also, Marian iconography seems to borrow heavily from sculptures and pictures of Isis holding Horus. Take the following picture for example:


particularly note the awkward position of Jesus and Mary's right hand. The alteration of the Isis/Horus image to avoid the showing of Mary's breast, or avoid the implication breast-feeding certainly sounds like something Catholics might do, as they seem to frown on nudity...



Did anyone else watch the clips I posted? If so I'd certainly like to hear other's thoughts on them.

Noah