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Origin Of The Trinity And It’s History
ORIGIN OF THE TRINITY AND IT’S HISTORY:
The gods were very much grouped in sets of three,
and each city had its own trinity.
In Thebes it was Amun-ra, Athor, and Chonso,
or father, mother, and son (see fig.21).
Sometimes, however, they were arranged as father, son, and mother,
placing Chonso between his two parents.
In Abousimbel and Derr in Nubia, the triniy is
Pthah,Amun-Ra, and Horus-ra, and these are the
three gods to whom Rameses II, is sacrificing the
Philistines, in the sculptures at Beyroot.
At Abousimbel the king also worships Amun-Ra, Horus-Ra,
and Horus of Lower Egypt.
At Wady Seboua he is seated in a group with Pthah, Kneph, and Athor.
At Silsilis he worships Amun-Ra, Horus-Ra and Hapimou, the Nile. At Philae the trinity is Osiris, Isis, and Horus, a
group indeed common to most parts of Egypt.
Other groups were Isis, Nephthys, and
Horus (see fig.22) or Isis, Nephthys, and Osiris;
and with a national love for mysticism
the priests often declared that the three in some
undescribed way only made one person.
but we have a hieroglyphical inscription in the British
Museum as early as the reign of Sevechus of the eighth century
before the Christian Era, showing that the doctrine of
Trinity in Unity already formed part of their religion,
and stating that in each of the two groups last mentioned the
three gods only made one person (Egypt. Inscript. pl.36,
4,5)
The sculptured figures on the lid of the sarcophagus of Rameses III.,
now at Cambridge, shows us the king not only as one of a group
of three gods, but also as a Trinity in Unity in his own person.
He stands between the goddesses Isis and Nephthys,
who embrace him as if he were the lost Osiris,
whom they have now found again
We further know him to be in the character of Osiris by the two
sceptres which he holds in his hands;
but at the same time the horns upon his head
are those of the goddess Athor, and the ball and
feathers above are the ornaments of the god Ra.
Thus he is at once Osiris, Athor, and Ra.
By Dr. Samuel Sharpe, Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity, Carter and Co.,
London, England, 1896, pps. 13-14.
Sorry you can't see pictures. Read the book.
Forgery in Christianity by Joseph Wheless 1930,
Alfred A. Knoph New York, N.Y.
(This information was posted by SOY on another forum.)
Here you can see an example of what this book is talking about:
Same old story...Same old dance!
The Babylonians, in their popular religion, supremely worshipped a
Goddess Mother and a Son, who was represented in pictures
and in images as an infant or child in his mother's arms.
From Babylon, this worship of the Mother and the Child spread
to the ends of the earth.
In Egypt, the Mother and the Child were worshipped under the names
of Isis and Osiris or Horus.
Isis
One of the most popular goddesses in Egypt.
Isis belongs to the Ennead of Heliopolis,and according
to the Heliopolitan genealogy is a daughter of Seb and Nut,
sister and wife of Osiris.
Possibly she was originally the personification of the throne
(her name is written with the hieroglyph for throne),
and as such she was an important source of the pharaoh's
power.
In the Hellenistic time Isis was the protrectress of sailors.
In the Osiris myths she searched for her husband's body,
who was killed by her brother Seth.
She retrieved and reassembled the body, and in this
connection she took on the role of a goddess of the
dead and of the funeral rights.
Isis impregnated herself from the Osiris' body and gave birth
to Horus in the swamps of Khemnis in the Nile Delta.
Here she raised her son in secret and kept him far
away from Seth.
Horus later defeated Seth and became the first ruler of
a united Egypt.
Isis, as mother of Horus, was by extension regarded as the
mother and protectress of the pharaoh's.
She was worshipped as the divine mother-goddess,
faithful consort of Osiris, and dedicated mother of Horus.
Isis was depicted as a woman with the solar disk between
the cow horns on her head
(an analogy with the goddess Hathor)
or crowned with a thrown,
BUT ALSO WITH THE CHILD HORUS SITTING ON HER LAP.
A vulture was sometimes seen incorporated in her
crown.
Also she was sometimes depicted as a kite above
the mummified body of Osiris.
Isis'popularity lasted far into the Roman era.
She had her own priests and many temples were
erected in her honor.
On the island of Philae in the Nile delta her largest temple
was situated
(it was transferred to the island Agilkia in 1975-1980).
* In India, even to this day, as Isi and Iswara; **
in Asia, as Cybele and Deoius; in Pagan Rome, as Fortuna and
Jupiter-puer, or Jupiter, the boy;
in Greece, as Ceres, the Great Mother, with the
babe at her breast, or as Irene, the goddess of
Peace, with the boy Plutus in her arms;
Irene
The Greek personified goddess of peace.
She was sometimes regarded as one of the Horae,
who presided over the seasons and the
order of nature and who were the daughters of
Zeus and Themis.
Irene was portrayed as a young woman with a cornucopia,
scepter, and torch or rhyton.
Famous is the marble statue of Cephisodotus
(ca. 380 BC),
which shows Irene with Plutus on her arm.
Ceres
The old-Italian goddess of agriculture, grain,
and the love a mother bears for her child.
The cult of Ceres was originally closely connected with
that of Tellus,the goddess earth.
In later mythology, Ceres is identified with the
Greek Demeter.
She is the daughter of Saturn and the mother of
Proserpina.
Ceres had a temple on the Aventine Hill, were she was
worshipped together with Liber
and Libera.
Her festival, the Cerealia, was celebrated on April 19.
Ceres is portrayed with a scepter, a basket with flowers
or fruits, and a garland made of the ears of
corn.
Another festival was the Ambarvalia, held in
May.
Even in Thibet, in China, and Japan, the Jesuit missionaries
were astronished to find the counterpart of Madonna ***
and her child as devoutly worshipped as in Papal Rome
itself;
Shing Moo, the Holy Mother in China, being represented
with a child in her arms, and a glory around her,
exactly as if a Roman Catholic artist had been employed to set
her up. ****
* Osiris, as the child called most frequently Horus. BUNSEN.
** KENNEDY'S Hindoo Mythology. Though Iswara is the husband of Isi,
he is also represnted as an infant at her breast.
*** The very name by which the Italians commonly designate the
Virgin, is just the translation of one of the titles of the
Babylonian goddess. As Baal or Belus was the name
of the great male divinity of Babylon, so the
female divinity was called Beltis.
(HESYCHIUS, Lexicon) This name has been found in Nineveh
applied to the "Mother of the gods"
(VAUX'S Nineveh and Persepolis); and in a speech attributed to
Nebuchadnezzar, preserved in EUSEBII Proeparatio Evangelii, both
titles "Belus and Beltis" are conjoined as the titles of the
great Babylonian god and goddess.
The Greek Belus, as representing the highest title of the
Babylonian god, was undoubtedly Baal, "The Lord."
Beltis, therefore, as the title of the female divinity,
was equivalent to "Baalti," which, in English, is "My Lady,"
in Latin, "Mea Domina," and, in Italina, is corrupted into the
well known "Madonna."
The gods were very much grouped in sets of three,
and each city had its own trinity.
In Thebes it was Amun-ra, Athor, and Chonso,
or father, mother, and son (see fig.21).
Sometimes, however, they were arranged as father, son, and mother,
placing Chonso between his two parents.
In Abousimbel and Derr in Nubia, the triniy is
Pthah,Amun-Ra, and Horus-ra, and these are the
three gods to whom Rameses II, is sacrificing the
Philistines, in the sculptures at Beyroot.
At Abousimbel the king also worships Amun-Ra, Horus-Ra,
and Horus of Lower Egypt.
At Wady Seboua he is seated in a group with Pthah, Kneph, and Athor.
At Silsilis he worships Amun-Ra, Horus-Ra and Hapimou, the Nile. At Philae the trinity is Osiris, Isis, and Horus, a
group indeed common to most parts of Egypt.
Other groups were Isis, Nephthys, and
Horus (see fig.22) or Isis, Nephthys, and Osiris;
and with a national love for mysticism
the priests often declared that the three in some
undescribed way only made one person.
but we have a hieroglyphical inscription in the British
Museum as early as the reign of Sevechus of the eighth century
before the Christian Era, showing that the doctrine of
Trinity in Unity already formed part of their religion,
and stating that in each of the two groups last mentioned the
three gods only made one person (Egypt. Inscript. pl.36,
4,5)
The sculptured figures on the lid of the sarcophagus of Rameses III.,
now at Cambridge, shows us the king not only as one of a group
of three gods, but also as a Trinity in Unity in his own person.
He stands between the goddesses Isis and Nephthys,
who embrace him as if he were the lost Osiris,
whom they have now found again
We further know him to be in the character of Osiris by the two
sceptres which he holds in his hands;
but at the same time the horns upon his head
are those of the goddess Athor, and the ball and
feathers above are the ornaments of the god Ra.
Thus he is at once Osiris, Athor, and Ra.
By Dr. Samuel Sharpe, Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity, Carter and Co.,
London, England, 1896, pps. 13-14.
Sorry you can't see pictures. Read the book.
Forgery in Christianity by Joseph Wheless 1930,
Alfred A. Knoph New York, N.Y.
(This information was posted by SOY on another forum.)
Here you can see an example of what this book is talking about:
Same old story...Same old dance!
The Babylonians, in their popular religion, supremely worshipped a
Goddess Mother and a Son, who was represented in pictures
and in images as an infant or child in his mother's arms.
From Babylon, this worship of the Mother and the Child spread
to the ends of the earth.
In Egypt, the Mother and the Child were worshipped under the names
of Isis and Osiris or Horus.
Isis
One of the most popular goddesses in Egypt.
Isis belongs to the Ennead of Heliopolis,and according
to the Heliopolitan genealogy is a daughter of Seb and Nut,
sister and wife of Osiris.
Possibly she was originally the personification of the throne
(her name is written with the hieroglyph for throne),
and as such she was an important source of the pharaoh's
power.
In the Hellenistic time Isis was the protrectress of sailors.
In the Osiris myths she searched for her husband's body,
who was killed by her brother Seth.
She retrieved and reassembled the body, and in this
connection she took on the role of a goddess of the
dead and of the funeral rights.
Isis impregnated herself from the Osiris' body and gave birth
to Horus in the swamps of Khemnis in the Nile Delta.
Here she raised her son in secret and kept him far
away from Seth.
Horus later defeated Seth and became the first ruler of
a united Egypt.
Isis, as mother of Horus, was by extension regarded as the
mother and protectress of the pharaoh's.
She was worshipped as the divine mother-goddess,
faithful consort of Osiris, and dedicated mother of Horus.
Isis was depicted as a woman with the solar disk between
the cow horns on her head
(an analogy with the goddess Hathor)
or crowned with a thrown,
BUT ALSO WITH THE CHILD HORUS SITTING ON HER LAP.
A vulture was sometimes seen incorporated in her
crown.
Also she was sometimes depicted as a kite above
the mummified body of Osiris.
Isis'popularity lasted far into the Roman era.
She had her own priests and many temples were
erected in her honor.
On the island of Philae in the Nile delta her largest temple
was situated
(it was transferred to the island Agilkia in 1975-1980).
* In India, even to this day, as Isi and Iswara; **
in Asia, as Cybele and Deoius; in Pagan Rome, as Fortuna and
Jupiter-puer, or Jupiter, the boy;
in Greece, as Ceres, the Great Mother, with the
babe at her breast, or as Irene, the goddess of
Peace, with the boy Plutus in her arms;
Irene
The Greek personified goddess of peace.
She was sometimes regarded as one of the Horae,
who presided over the seasons and the
order of nature and who were the daughters of
Zeus and Themis.
Irene was portrayed as a young woman with a cornucopia,
scepter, and torch or rhyton.
Famous is the marble statue of Cephisodotus
(ca. 380 BC),
which shows Irene with Plutus on her arm.
Ceres
The old-Italian goddess of agriculture, grain,
and the love a mother bears for her child.
The cult of Ceres was originally closely connected with
that of Tellus,the goddess earth.
In later mythology, Ceres is identified with the
Greek Demeter.
She is the daughter of Saturn and the mother of
Proserpina.
Ceres had a temple on the Aventine Hill, were she was
worshipped together with Liber
and Libera.
Her festival, the Cerealia, was celebrated on April 19.
Ceres is portrayed with a scepter, a basket with flowers
or fruits, and a garland made of the ears of
corn.
Another festival was the Ambarvalia, held in
May.
Even in Thibet, in China, and Japan, the Jesuit missionaries
were astronished to find the counterpart of Madonna ***
and her child as devoutly worshipped as in Papal Rome
itself;
Shing Moo, the Holy Mother in China, being represented
with a child in her arms, and a glory around her,
exactly as if a Roman Catholic artist had been employed to set
her up. ****
* Osiris, as the child called most frequently Horus. BUNSEN.
** KENNEDY'S Hindoo Mythology. Though Iswara is the husband of Isi,
he is also represnted as an infant at her breast.
*** The very name by which the Italians commonly designate the
Virgin, is just the translation of one of the titles of the
Babylonian goddess. As Baal or Belus was the name
of the great male divinity of Babylon, so the
female divinity was called Beltis.
(HESYCHIUS, Lexicon) This name has been found in Nineveh
applied to the "Mother of the gods"
(VAUX'S Nineveh and Persepolis); and in a speech attributed to
Nebuchadnezzar, preserved in EUSEBII Proeparatio Evangelii, both
titles "Belus and Beltis" are conjoined as the titles of the
great Babylonian god and goddess.
The Greek Belus, as representing the highest title of the
Babylonian god, was undoubtedly Baal, "The Lord."
Beltis, therefore, as the title of the female divinity,
was equivalent to "Baalti," which, in English, is "My Lady,"
in Latin, "Mea Domina," and, in Italina, is corrupted into the
well known "Madonna."
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