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Let’s start with legendary figures of far greater antiquity whose attributes appear to uncannily resemble the much later legend known as Jesus Christ.
"The Jesus story incorporated elements from the tales of other deities recorded in this widespread area of the ancient world, including several of the following world saviors, most or all of whom predate the Christian myth," Acharya writes.
These include (and I’ll edit this list, because it’s very long)
Adad and Marduk of Assyria
Adonis, Aesclepius, Apollo, Dionysus, Heracles, and Zeus of Greece
Alcides of Thebes, divine redeemer born of a virgin around 1200 BCE
Attis of Phyrgia
Bal or Bel of Babylon/Phoenicia
Buddha and Krishna of India
Hermes of Egypt/Greece
Hesus of the Druids
Horus, Osiris, and Serapis of Egypt
Indra of Tibet/India
Ieo of China
Issa of Arabia, born of the Virgin Mary in 400 BCE
Jupiter/Jove of Rome
Mithra of Persia/India
Odin/Wodin/Woden/Wotan of Scandinavia
Prometheus of Caucasus/Greece
Quetzalcoatl of Mexico
Salivahana of southern India, "who was a divine child, born of a virgin, and son of a carpenter"
Tammuz of Syria, the savior god worshipped in Jerusalem
Thor of the Gauls
Zoroaster of Persia
Attis of Phrygia was born on December 25 of the Virgin Nana, and considered the savior who was slain for the salvation of mankind. His body as bread was eaten by his worshippers. He was crucified on a tree, descended into the underworld and was resurrected annually on March 25 as the "most high god," many centuries before Christianity was invented.
Buddha was born on December 25 of the virgin Maya, and his birth was accompanied by a special star, wise men and angels. He was baptized in water with the holy ghost present. He was resurrected and will return in the "latter days" to judge all men. His legends extend back more than a thousand years before Christ.
The Greek god of wine was actually a savior (as any drinker will tell you). Dionysus, born of a virgin, who rode in a triumphal procession on an ass, is considered by some scholars as the prototype of Christ.
The real model for all saviors, according to Acharya, was the Egyptian god Osiris. Quoting Barbara Walker, from "The Women’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets":
Of all the savior gods worshipped at the beginning of the Christian era, Osiris may have contributed more details to the evolving Christ figure than any other. Already very old in Egypt, Osiris was identified with nearly every other Egyptian god and was on the way to absorbing them all. He had well over 200 divine names.
He was called the Lord of Lords, King of Kings, God of Gods. He was the Resurrection and the Life, the Good Shepherd, Eternity and Everlastingness, "the god who made men and women to be born again." (Sir Wallis) Budge (once the preeminent Egyptologist) says,
"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 ...
Some claim Osiris lived up to 22,000 years ago.
Acharya writes:
As Col. James Churchward naively exclaims, "The teachings of Osiris and Jesus are wonderfully alike. Many passages are identically the same, word for word."
Acharya also exhaustively compares the details of Krishna and Mithra, as well as Prometheus, Quetzalcoatl, and Serapis. The reader soon begins to realize that all these stories the same.
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/biblianazar/esp_biblianazar_27.htm
Sep 27, 2015 @ 18:11:27
