Pagan Parallels and Luxor Temple
February 12th, 2010 by Albert McIlhenny Posted in Miscellaneous | No Comments »One of the most popular pieces of “evidence” used by “pagan parallel” theorists of the Zeitgeist variety is Luxor Temple and its alleged depiction of the “annunciation”, “virgin birth”, and “adoration” of Horus. A few problems immediately arise: It’s not about Horus but the pharaoh Amenhetup III. There is no annunciation as the woman depicted - Amenhetup III’s mother Mutemwai and not Isis - was already pregant. The birth was hardly virginal and the adoration was common for the son of a pharaoh and bears no relationship to the adoration of Jesus by shepherds and magi. The acompanying texts in hieroglyphs tell a whole different story but the conspiracy theorists who follow Zeitgeist are not interested in checking their imaginations against the evidence.
