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Discussion
A large part of the above god character respect occurred in c.800BC when Greek mythology was formulated based on a rewrite of Egyptian mythology, owing to scholars, such as Thales and Homer, travelling to Egypt and studying under their priests and in their libraries.
The following is a table of Egyptian god to Greek quod equivalents, according to Herodotus, as adapted (Ѻ) from Ivan Linforth’s 1926 Greek Gods and Foreign Gods in Herodotus:
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Quotes
The following are related quotes:
“Let me not be called a wicked atheist for seeing the likeness between Brahma and Abraham.’”
— Godfrey Higgins (1833), Anacalypsis, Volume One (pg. 391)
“In this way antiquity disposes of its sun-gods. The Hebrews turned [the gods] into Patriarchs [see: god reduction]. Adam, Abraham, Israel, were names of Saturn. Edom is Adam; and the ancient usage was to name the nation, the land or city after the chief god. The Greeks made these deities founders of tribes.”
— Samuel Dunlap (1858), Vestiges of the Spirit of Man
“Herodotus found the similarity between the rites of Osiris and Dionysus so great, that he thought it impossible the latter could have arisen independently; they must, he thought, have been recently borrowed, with slight alternations, by the Greeks from the Egyptians.”
— James Frazer (1907), Adonis, Attis, Osiris [2]
“Plutarch's version of the myth of Isis and Osiris connects the various episodes, many of which can be documented from Egyptian sources, into a single, running narrative (On Isis and Osiris, 12-19). The story begins with Kronos (Geb, the Egyptian earth god) and Rhea (Nut, the Egyptian sky goddess) overcoming the curse of Helios (Re, the sun god) with the help of Hermes (Thoth, the Egyptian moon god) by producing five children on five intercalary days: Osiris, Horus, Typhon (Set), Isis, and Nephthys. As pharaoh of Egypt, Osiris brings civilization to that country and to the whole world. Typhon, however, gathers conspirators and plots to kill Osiris. First, he imprisons Osiris within a coffin and throws it into the Nile River, and later he dismembers the body of Osiris and scatters the pieces all around Egypt. One piece, the penis, is lost forever in the Nile River. In both episodes, the reproductive power of Osiris is sub-merged in the Nile. (Isis grieving and searching for Osiris and burning away the mortality of the infant prince of Byblos can be compared with …”
— Marvin Meyer (1999), The Ancient Mysteries (Ѻ)
“It is impossible to ignore the similarities between the Egyptian quarternity: Isis and Nephthys (known as 'the Two Goddesses' in Egypt), Osiris and Set (personifications of life and death), and the leading characters of the Eleusinian drama: Demeter and Persephone (also known simply as 'the Two Goddesses'), Dionysus and Hades. Diodorus of Sicily, first century BC, clearly states that the initiatory rites of Demeter in Eleusis were transferred from Egypt (Diodorus Siculus, 1.29.2). Later he states: The rite of Osiris is the same as that of Dionysus and that of Isis very similar to that of Demeter; the names alone having been interchanged, and the punishments in Hades of the unrighteous, the Fields of the Righteous and the fantastic conceptions, current among the many - all these were introduced by Orpheus in imitation of the Egyptian funeral customs.' (1.96.4-5).”
— Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy (2001), Jesus and the Lost Goddess [3]
“Stories of Hindu heroes: Adimo, Heva, Sherma, Hama and Jiapheta apparently were replicated into legends about: Adam, Eve, Shem, Ham, and Japeth.”
— Gore Burnelli (2008) (Ѻ)
See also
● Egyptian-to-Christian transliteration
● Mangnall’s abstract of Heathen mythology
Notes
N1. Osiris, Dionysus-Bacchus, and Moses
N2. Supreme god timeline
N3. Buddhism
N4. Abraham and Brahma
N5. Christ myth theory
N6. (a) Memphis creation myth
(b) Hermopolis creation myth
References
2. Frazer, James. (1907). Adonis, Attis, Osiris (pg. 357). MacMillan.
3. Freke, Timothy and Grandy, Peter. (2001). Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians (Osiris, 18+ pgs; quote, pg. 255). Random House.
4. Meyer, Marvin. (1999). The Ancient Mysteries: a Sourcebook of Sacred Texts (pg. 160). University of Pennsylvania Press.
5. Greenberg, Gary. (2000). 101 Myths of the Bible: How Ancient Scribes Invented Biblical History (Adam = Atum, pgs. 46-47). Source Books.
6. Anon. (2007). “Egyptian Parallels to Greek Deities” (Ѻ), Atlantis Online, Feb 17.
7. Egyptian and Greek God Comparisons – Rioradan Wiki.
8. Plutarch. (c.100AD). Isis and Osiris; in: Plutarch's Moralia, Volume Five (pg. 25) (Introduction: Victor Hanson). Harvard University Press.
9. (a) Kant, Immanuel. (1769). Publication. Publisher.
(b) Hecht, Jennifer M. (2003). Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas (Adam = Adimo; Abraham = Braham; Joseph = Ganesha, pg. 367). HarperOne.
10. Sumerian creation myth – Wikipedia.
11. (a) Tiamat – Wikipedia.
(b) Babylonian religion – Wikipedia.
(c) Enuma Elis – Wikipedia.
(d) Peterson, Jordan. (1999). Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (atheism, pgs. 6, 452, 448; Osiris, 8+ pgs; Tiamat, 10+ pgs). Publisher.
12. (a) Campbell, Joseph. (1976). The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology (pg. 70). Penguin Books.
(b) Ishtar – Wikipedia.
(c) Tammuz (deity) – Wikipedia.
13. Ovid. (8AD). Metamorphosis: Stories of Changing Form (§:Introduction, pgs. v-ix) (translator and introduction: Rolfe Humphries) (Deucalion and Pyrrha, pgs. 12-13). Indiana University Press, 1955.
14. Cheyne, Thomas K. (1907). Traditions and Beliefs of Ancient Israel (pgs. 4-5). A. and C. Black.
15. Georg Creuzer (c.1837) (Ѻ) identified Shiva with Osiris and Baccus.
External links
● List of Germanic deities – Wikipedia.
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In religio-mythology, god character rescripts, or "god character equivalents", refers to Egyptian god to Sumerian god to Indian, Greco-Roman, and Judeo-Christian god, character, or prophet equivalences; which resulted over time owing to cultural migrations, dynasty or empire recensions, and or general religious redaction, e.g. Hebrew scholars turning gods into prophets (Dunlap, 1858), Romans templating off Greek gods, e.g. Dionysus to Bacchus, and general intercultural wars and conquering. 
