Don Barone Wrote:
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> Jacob's ladder. I have posted persuasive proof
> that Isis was Venus

Actually, she was worshiped as Isis in the Roman empire (rather than as Venus... the analogue to Venus is mentioned in only one ancient writing, if I recall correctly.) Isis was an important figure to them.

see: Takács, Sarolta A. Isis and Sarapis in the Roman world. EJ Brill, 1995. (not available online, alas)

Iconography of Isis and baby Horus were used as models for statues of Jesus and Mary.


> This imagery (pentagram) is found in Egypt

Can you point to any Egyptian art that has pentagrams in it? I do know they used multi-pointed stars, but have never seen any pentagrams.


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> To be fair this person has not listed his source
> for his or her comments.

Indeed. And they're quite wrong. The "shadow box" (arrgh!) is actually a version of the "block statue" which does NOT contain a "shadow" [escholarship.org]

The "shadows" are probably taken from the Book of the Cow or the Book of Gates (both produced fairly late in Egyptian history.)


> And our arguments are typical of the arguments of
> those who study the Bible ... is it literal or is
> it symbolic and since neither one of us is the
> author ... I guess we are simply left to our own
> beliefs as to which is which

A bit different from the Biblical scholars I know. The ones I know check meaning against other texts and other versions of each book of the Bible and also look deeply into the culture to see how symbols and colors and other semiotic material was used.

> However I set out to prove that The Bible and The
> Torah came directly from Ancient Egyptian beliefs
> and I think I have proved that beyond a shadow of
> a doubt.


I would disagree.

> And I also think I have proved along the way that
> The Moses of the biblical interpretation is 100%
> based on Ahkenaten.

Knowing what I do of Akhenaten, I also disagree.

> portrayed as Moses is totally based on Ahkenaten
> and his heresy was simply to believe in one god

It was more than that. His idea was that only he and his family could worship the Aten directly (nobody else could.) He was the intermediary between the Aten and the rest of the people, so that they had to ask the king to ask the Aten for whatever they wanted. There are also hints that he used force to enforce this.

I have noted that by doing this, he also controlled the temples and all their revenue came to him and this influx of wealth provided the resources to build his City In The Middle of Nowhere.

(many sources... this just happens to be a readable and accessible one): [cssrscer.ca]


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