THE VIRGIN BIRTH STORY
Having explored a lot of China in the last six years I have become very interested in China’s historic past, especially the eras before Christ. I visited many Buddhist and Taoist temples and was surprise about the many statues of Mother and Child that resembled the statues we find in Christian Churches in Europe. The statues date back to an era before Christianity. In Egypt we find depictions in the temple of Lucor depicting Mut-em-ua, virgin queen of Egypt, who is the mother of Pharaoh Amenkept, holding a cross (symbol of life) to her mouth while receiving gifts from 3 kings. Long before Christianity many of similar stories were depicted. The god RA was born of the virgin mother Neith. The more familiar story of Horus, born from the virgin ISIS (she was black) has many things in common with the later Jesus story. Statues of her holding the child are still to be found in Rome’s catacombs were the were placed by early Christians who adopted pagan stories and rites. Statues of Isis and Horus were exported from Egypt to Europe and Asia and adopted by Christians, Buddhists and Taoist under different names. A little research on the Internet shows that the Virgin Birth story appears in many countries and religions, strongly suggesting that an original story, long before it was written down, was passed on orally and traveled far and wide in some form or another.
Having explored a lot of China in the last six years I have become very interested in China’s historic past, especially the eras before Christ. I visited many Buddhist and Taoist temples and was surprise about the many statues of Mother and Child that resembled the statues we find in Christian Churches in Europe. The statues date back to an era before Christianity. In Egypt we find depictions in the temple of Lucor depicting Mut-em-ua, virgin queen of Egypt, who is the mother of Pharaoh Amenkept, holding a cross (symbol of life) to her mouth while receiving gifts from 3 kings. Long before Christianity many of similar stories were depicted. The god RA was born of the virgin mother Neith. The more familiar story of Horus, born from the virgin ISIS (she was black) has many things in common with the later Jesus story. Statues of her holding the child are still to be found in Rome’s catacombs were the were placed by early Christians who adopted pagan stories and rites. Statues of Isis and Horus were exported from Egypt to Europe and Asia and adopted by Christians, Buddhists and Taoist under different names. A little research on the Internet shows that the Virgin Birth story appears in many countries and religions, strongly suggesting that an original story, long before it was written down, was passed on orally and traveled far and wide in some form or another.
Reading all the information on the virgin birth myths and reading lots of material about the way Emperors and Kings lived, some information suggested that a Childless Queen widow became pregnant by being impregnated by her departed Husband God who came down from heaven to guaranty succession and so assured her position of power until the child was old enough to take over. That could be the basic story which generated all these similar Virgin Birth myths, when finally written down by different scribes, with different names, at different times. (I don’t think that the actual male the queen used to become pregnant, did survive to see his son being born)
I strongly suspect that most myths have a basis in reality or were “moral” tales, adapted to the circumstances to facilitate the control of the elite over the masses, as I explained in other pages of the website.
Is the Virgin Mother Mary and Jesus story really historically true, or an echo of many earlier and similar stories, adapted by the early Christians? You decide.
I strongly suspect that most myths have a basis in reality or were “moral” tales, adapted to the circumstances to facilitate the control of the elite over the masses, as I explained in other pages of the website.
Is the Virgin Mother Mary and Jesus story really historically true, or an echo of many earlier and similar stories, adapted by the early Christians? You decide.