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Just a quick question. I have not heard you speak about jesus as a solar god and how the winter solstice could represent the three day period where the “Sun” descends into Hades for three days. Christmas is linked to Winter Solstice celebrations of ancient Pagan cultures. While Christian mythology is interwoven with contemporary observances of this holiday time, its Pagan nature is still strong and apparent. Is this a a perspective with evidence and good methodology?
Not really a relevant question in this thread. But I did extensive postdoc research on this and found no credible evidence of it. The only connections to pagan influences that could actually be empirically established I outline in my published study, On the Historicity of Jesus. For examples of the problem see my recent article Some Problems with Modern Kemetic Mythology for specific examples illustrating that point (see especially the section on “December 25”).
You can also look at my old article on Kersey Graves, which was a methodological warning I found proved out for even contemporary purveyors of this bogus theory when I completed a focused study on it. And that’s even counting things in that article I was wrong about—I would later find even I was misled on several facts, yet correcting those errors only makes the article’s point stronger. For example, when I wrote that I gullibly believed the claim about sun gods being born on December 25. When I completed my actual postdoc study, I found that was false.
Re: Great Cameo of France? Triumph of Joseph at the Court of the Pharaoh? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7smTWI4g7kM
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