In existographies, Erik Hornung (1933-) is a German-born Swiss Egyptologist noted for []
Overview
In 1982, Hornung, in his Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt, distinguished between what he called “Egyptology”, which appeared in 1822 with the translation of the Rosetta stone, i.e. the subject of decipherment of hieroglyphics and the translation of the Egyptian stories into modern language, and “Egyptosophy”, the study of the wisdom inherent in the ancient Egyptian esoteric traditions, lore, and the its "continuation down into modern esoteric movements"; the latter of which, he says, is a "troubled" subject and in inverse proportion to the former, which he evidences by the fact that in 1982 there was only one professorship of esoteric lore, at Sorbonne in Paris, in all the world, as compared to universal professorships in Egyptology, worldwide. [1]
Quotes
The following are related quotes:
“There was an obvious analogy between the Horus child and the baby Jesus and the care they received from their sacred mothers; long before Christianity, Isis had borne the epithet ‘mother of the god’.”
— Erik Hornung (2001), The Secret Lore of Egypt (pg. 60); cited by Tom Harpur (2004) in The Pagan Christ (pg. 5) [2]
“There was a smooth from the image of the nursing Isis, Isis lactans, to that of Maria lactans. The miraculous birth of Jesus could be viewed as analogous to that of Horus, whom Isis conceived posthumously from Osiris, and Mary was closely connected with Isis by many other characteristics.”
— Erik Hornung (2001), The Secret Lore of Egypt (pg. 72); cited by Tom Harpur (2004) in The Pagan Christ (pg. 72) [2]
References
1. Harpur, Tom. (2004). The Pagan Christ (pg. 231). Thomas Allan Publishers.
2. (a) Hornung, Erik. (2001). The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West (analogy, pg. 60; analogous, pg. 75) (Ѻ) . Cornell University Press.
(b) Harpur, Tom. (2004). The Pagan Christ (pg. 72). Thomas Allan Publishers.
Further reading
● Hornung, Erik. (1982). Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt. Publisher, 1996.
External links
● Erik Hornung – Wikipedia.