I am interested in learning if there are any sources that show that Horus was baptized at all? Was he baptized by Anup?
The best I got out a google search was this on yahoo answers. Can't say that it's accurate:
I took an art history class in Egyptian art and never read or heard anything about any kind of baptism in Egypt. This story about John the Baptist is totally misinterpreted by Christians. John the Baptist belonged to a sect inJudaism know as the Essenes. They lived a very austere life, were celebate and placed a great deal of faith in the coming of the Messiah. What Christians call baptism, Jews call mikvah. It is a process of ritual cleansing. Before anyone could go to the Temple Mount, they had to emerse themselves in a mikvah. There was a great deal of emphasis placed on purity before entering a holy place. A woman is required to go to a mikvah after her period and before she can have relations with her husband. John the Baptist was preaching that everyone should emerse themselves in the Jordan in order to achieve ritual purity for the coming of the Messiah and the Messianic age. The early Christians were all Jews. They were what is referred to as Judeo-Christains. John the Baptist was not baptising anyone into another religion. Christianity came about long after the death of Jesus of Nazareth.
Regarding Horus: there were many statues of mother and child where Horus was the child and Isis was holding him. In many of these paintings and statues Isis is seen breast feeding Horus. This iconography was adopted by Christianity. So, the image of Madonna and Child is really coming from the Egyptians. Anubis is the god of the underworld. He is shown in many tomb paintings with a scale (balance) where he would weigh the heart of the deceased against a feather. In order to enter into the afterlife your heart had to be as light as a feather. And so it is that the ancient Egyptian word for feather maat is also the word for truth.
I cursively looked at the website that you mention. There are certain items that immediately stand out as false. There were no angels in Egyptian myth. Osiris was a god. Isis his wife was a Goddess and Horus their son was also a god. There was no virgin birth. Osiris was dismembered by his brother Seth and his body was scattered all over the Nile (I think). Isis went around and gathered the boidy parts of her husband and put most of them together again. She found Osiris' penis and Osiris who had very little life left in him had just enough strength to have sex with his wife and get her pregnant before he died. Osiris had been the ruler of Egypt and when his brother Seth killed him, Seth took over control of Egypt. When Horus was grown up he wound up avenging his father's death and killed Seth. Horus represented kingship in Egypt. Osiris represented kingship after death. In life the king of Egypt was associated with Horus. In death the king was associated with Osiris.
The best I got out a google search was this on yahoo answers. Can't say that it's accurate:
I took an art history class in Egyptian art and never read or heard anything about any kind of baptism in Egypt. This story about John the Baptist is totally misinterpreted by Christians. John the Baptist belonged to a sect inJudaism know as the Essenes. They lived a very austere life, were celebate and placed a great deal of faith in the coming of the Messiah. What Christians call baptism, Jews call mikvah. It is a process of ritual cleansing. Before anyone could go to the Temple Mount, they had to emerse themselves in a mikvah. There was a great deal of emphasis placed on purity before entering a holy place. A woman is required to go to a mikvah after her period and before she can have relations with her husband. John the Baptist was preaching that everyone should emerse themselves in the Jordan in order to achieve ritual purity for the coming of the Messiah and the Messianic age. The early Christians were all Jews. They were what is referred to as Judeo-Christains. John the Baptist was not baptising anyone into another religion. Christianity came about long after the death of Jesus of Nazareth.
Regarding Horus: there were many statues of mother and child where Horus was the child and Isis was holding him. In many of these paintings and statues Isis is seen breast feeding Horus. This iconography was adopted by Christianity. So, the image of Madonna and Child is really coming from the Egyptians. Anubis is the god of the underworld. He is shown in many tomb paintings with a scale (balance) where he would weigh the heart of the deceased against a feather. In order to enter into the afterlife your heart had to be as light as a feather. And so it is that the ancient Egyptian word for feather maat is also the word for truth.
I cursively looked at the website that you mention. There are certain items that immediately stand out as false. There were no angels in Egyptian myth. Osiris was a god. Isis his wife was a Goddess and Horus their son was also a god. There was no virgin birth. Osiris was dismembered by his brother Seth and his body was scattered all over the Nile (I think). Isis went around and gathered the boidy parts of her husband and put most of them together again. She found Osiris' penis and Osiris who had very little life left in him had just enough strength to have sex with his wife and get her pregnant before he died. Osiris had been the ruler of Egypt and when his brother Seth killed him, Seth took over control of Egypt. When Horus was grown up he wound up avenging his father's death and killed Seth. Horus represented kingship in Egypt. Osiris represented kingship after death. In life the king of Egypt was associated with Horus. In death the king was associated with Osiris.
