{"id":44635,"date":"2019-04-13T16:57:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T20:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egyptianwisdomcenter.org\/advent-and-christmas-in-ancient-egypt\/"},"modified":"2023-02-07T11:53:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T16:53:53","slug":"advent-and-christmas-in-ancient-egypt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/egyptianwisdomcenter.org\/sv\/advent-and-christmas-in-ancient-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent And Christmas In Ancient Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Advent And Christmas In Ancient Egypt<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Forty days after the burial of Osiris\u2019 seeds into Mother Earth, Isis\/Osiris met his demise. In the typical Ancient Egyptian story form, Plutarch writes in his Moralia, Vol. V <\/em>(356, 13) about how Osiris was invited by Seth to a feast where Seth and his accomplices tricked Osiris into laying down in a makeshift coffin. Plutarch continues with:<\/p>\n

“. . .and those who were in the plot ran to it and slammed down the lid, which they fastened by nails from the outside and also by using molten lead. Then they carried the chest to the river and sent it on its way to the sea through the Tanitic Mouth. Wherefore the Egyptians even to this day name this mouth the hateful and execrable. Such is the tradition. They say also that the date on which this deed was done was the 17th<\/sup> day of Athor <\/em><\/strong>[27 November], when the sun passes through Scorpion.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The events of 17 Hatoor\/Athor (27 November), as reported by Plutarch, have all the elements of the biblical Jesus\u2019 Last Supper; i.e. a conspiracy, feast, friends, and betrayal. However, for the Ancient Egyptians, there are other meanings to the story. Plutarch, in Moralia, Vol. V <\/em>(366, 39D), wrote:<\/p>\n

” The story told of the shutting up of Osiris in the chest seems to mean nothing else than the vanishing and disappearance of water<\/span>. . . at the time when. . . the Nile recedes to its low level and the land becomes denuded. As the nights grow longer, the darkness increases, and the potency of the light is abated and subdued.<\/span> . .”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The antagonistic <\/em>relationship between Osiris and Seth\u2014as it relates to environmental conditions\u2014is mentioned by Plutarch, Moralia, Vol. V <\/em>(364, 33B), as such:<\/p>\n

“. . . The Egyptians simply give the name of Osiris to the whole source and faculty creative of moisture<\/span>, believing this to be the cause of generation and the substance of life-producing seed; and the name of Seth<\/span><\/em><\/strong> they give to all that is dry, fiery, and arid, in general, and antagonistic to moisture<\/span>. . .<\/em><\/strong>
\n. . . The insidious scheming and usurpation of Seth, then, is the power of drought, which gains control and dissipates the moisture which is the source of the Nile and of its rising . . .”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Loss of Osiris is now celebrated in the Abu Sefein Mouled at the same time and with the same traditions; i.e. a big feast followed by a 40-day cycle of figurative death by fasting and other disciplinary means.<\/p>\n

=> 28 days after the Last Supper is the birth\/rebirth of the renewed king on 25 December.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

=> 40 days after the Last Supper is Epiphany<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Osiris\u2019 life, being a symbol of the moon, is associated with a cycle of 28 days (4 weeks). This was echoed later in the Christian Advent, which, in \u2018Latin\u2019, is ad-venio<\/em>, meaning to come to<\/em>. The Catholic Encyclopedia admits that: \u201cAdvent is a period embracing 4 Sundays. The first Sunday may be as early as 27 November, and then Advent has 28 days.<\/em><\/strong>\u201d As noted above, 27 November is the date of the symbolic Last Supper, Death, and Loss of Osiris.<\/p>\n

The 28-day cycle of Osiris and its relationship to the regeneration principle is nicely depicted in the famed scene of the resurrection of the wheat, which depicts Osiris with 28 stalks of wheat growing out of his coffin.<\/p>\n

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The ecclesiastical year begins with Advent in the Western churches. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, \u201cthe faithful are admonished, during this time:<\/p>\n