Just about all of them. "Virgin" Births e.g. Horus, son of Isis, a Virgin.
Jesus in the Temple at 12 years old.
Baptism in the myths of Anubis.
Crucufixion. Horus was crucified.
Resurection after 3 days. Horus rose from the dead after 3 days.
Are you just intentionally ignoring what I've posted? None of those are accurate correlations. From a much earlier post refuting not only those claims, but many of the common ridiculous claims for the Horus-Jesus connection, this is The Jesus/Horus similarity claims, broken down:
Claim
|
Jesus
|
Horus
Virgin Birth | biblical | non-existent
Only Begotten Son | biblical | non-existent
1.
Mother's Name | Mary | Isis (not meri
2.
)
'Foster' Father | Joseph | none
3.
(Osiris)
Father's Ancestry | not royal
4.
| divine
Birth Location | stable/cave | varied
Annunciation | angel to Mary | none
5.
Birth Herald | Eastern Star (biblical) | none
6.
Birth Date | Celebrated Dec. 25th
7.
| revolving
8.
Birth Announcement | Angels | none (hidden)
9.
Birth Witnesses | Shepherds | none or Ra (Re)
10.
Later Witnesses | Wise Men
11.
| none or Ra (Re)
12.
Death Threat | Herod | Set (Seth)
13.
Handling Threat | went into hiding (in Egypt) | none or went into hiding
14.
Followers | 12 disciples | 0, 4, 16 (varied)
15.
Activities | miracles (healing, walked on water, etc.) | fought Set (Seth) and ruled Egypt
16.
Method of Death | crucifixion | none (didn't die)
17.
Accompanied By | two thieves | none (didn't die)
Burial | in a tomb | none (didn't die)
18.
Fate After Death | descent and resurrection | none (didn't die)
Resurrection Announcement | women | none (didn't die)
Future | book of Revelation | none (ruled Egypt)
19.
1. The "only begotten son" thing doesn't work with Horus because different stories have him being a single son, a second son (after Set), and sometimes even the father or husband of Isis (though without the death Osiris experienced).
2. The word 'meri' means 'beloved' in Egyptian, and can be applied to men as well as women.
3. Osiris was the actual father of Horus in most Egyptian mythology.
4. The 'royal' lineage of Jesus did not come from Joseph, it came from Mary (allegedly traceable to King David). Lineage like that was matriarchal (passed down from mother) to child in Jewish culture, not patriarchal. It's still that way today (in Jewish culture).
5. No one told Isis she was to conceive, she made that decision herself. In some versions of the story, she even asked the help of other deities to lend their magic to hers to make it possible (to revive Osiris and conceive). In other versions she needed no help, only Osiris to father the child.
6. There was a religious observance to the star named for Sothis (known now as Sirius), but this observance was not connected to Horus and was instead connected to the flooding of the Nile, which happened practically like clockwork every year. Sothis (the deity) is connected to Hathor, not Horus.
7. The celebration of Christmas on the 25th was not widespread until the Fourth Century, and had at times been condemned by some Christ-worshippers as incorrect and tolerant of influence from other local religious observances (like Saturnalia and Solstice celebrations). The earliest Christian writings guessing the birth date of Jesus have it either in the autumn (November-ish) or January 6th, the latter of which is still celebrated as the birth date of Jesus to Eastern Orthodoxy today.
8. I say the date would be revolving because the Egyptian calendar differed from our Gregorian and Julian calendars, and any given day in the calendar would have fallen on a different subsequent day on the calendar we use today. However, attempts to use examples of dates given to Greek-Egyptian texts would have placed the birth date of Horus in August (on our current calendar), not December.
9. No birth announcement was made because Isis did not want to have Set (Seth) learn of the baby Horus's whereabouts in most accounts (the accounts where Isis hid).
10. Depending on which account you use, either no one else was present or the god Ra (Re) was present.
11. The Christian bible makes no mention of the number of wise men. This but of the story was added later in cultural retellings. The number three was assumed because of the number of different gifts supposedly offered in the biblical tale, but no verification of three "wise men" at the birth.
12. There are some stories where Hathor, Thoth, Seb, Anubis, and a few others as well as Ra (Re), but never only three other deities.
13. The threat of death from Set (Seth) is not in every account of the birth and life of Horus. In some Set (Seth) is simply the jealous uncle or brother, attempting to gain favor among the other gods above the upstart Horus (and failing).
14. Not all of the stories of the birth of Horus involve Isis going into hiding. Some of them actually involve Isis having the other gods be aware of her child, or having some of the gods train Horus as he grows older. One (rather racy) story even involves Set (Seth) attempting to (sexually) seduce Horus in a competition to show Set's (Seth's) superiority over Horus among the gods (which fails amusingly).
15. For use regarding Horus, these numbers are arbitrary. He had priests and acolytes, as well as many other followers, servants, and allies. To number the individuals on or part of the side of Horus would be in the hundreds if you're just using the mythological stories, and all of Egypt if you use the writings attributing the throne of Egypt to Horus.
16. Almost every mythological story of Horus involves him avenging his father (Osiris) by humiliating or slaying Set (Seth). To this end Horus has more similarity to Luke Skywalker than to Jesus.
17. Horus didn't die. Osiris (his father) was the one who died.
18. Horus wasn't buried in a tomb. In some iterations of the story, Osiris (his father) was brought to a tomb. In those stories, it's there where Osiris was resurrected by Isis (not Anubis) and brought back to life as the god of the afterlife.
19. Horus was the embodiment of the power of the throne of Egypt. This symbol was even kept in place when the Greeks conquered Egypt and later when the Romans ruled over Egyptian lands.
From:
http://home.austarnet.com.au/calum/egyptb.html#Baptism
Read the whole of that web page. It is by an Archaeologist I know personally. Calum has a large list of similarities between Egyptology and Christianity. I am a bedraggled refugee from the "Holy" Roman Catholic Church and I can see the connection even without reading stuff like this.
I seriously doubt your friend there is an archaeologist, but none of the information on that page is original. It's almost completely stuff Gerald Massey wrote without ever actually giving an actual translation. As a friendly challenge to both yourself and your friend, I humbly submit to you right now that we can have a moderated thread (where only we can post) here on this forum where the three of us can take the Papyrus of Ani (which is available online, but if you need I can get images), and together we can go line-by-line in translation and figure out whether it actually says what Massey claims it says, or whether it says what every other translation in existence states it says. If you don't know how to translate Egyptian or think your friend may have trouble translating, I'll be happy to provide you with online resources from groups I have literally no connection to.
Seriously, this is a first-year-level Egyptology project. I'm sure you would find it quite enlightening (and several others here would find it entertaining).
Egyptian Baptism is covered extensively by D.M.. Murdock: Christ in Egypt: The Jesus-Horus Connection". She has a whole chapter on it.
And she made up most of her connections out of whole cloth.
As I said in another reply, Christianity developed in Alexandria in the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE.
No, it started in the late first century in Judea, and spread from there. Nice try, though-- that certainly allows for not only the Horus-Jesus nonsense, but it allows the advent of Mithraism (which is reported in Rome around the 1st century as well) to pre-date Christianity. Clever. Too bad it's fake information.
