Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [128]
Obviously, this event did not happen literally and historically. Such a tremendous occurrence would hardly have escaped the notice of historians and scientists of the day, yet not a word is recorded of it anywhere. The same tale is told of a number of other sun gods and is only explainable within the mythos. In the Egyptian version, Horus rends the curtain or veil of the tabernacle or temple, which means that in his resurrection, he removes the mummified remains of his old self as Osiris. This scene represents the new sun being born or resurrected from the old, dead one. The refreshed spirit pierces the veil, with a loud cry of his resurrection and with the quaking of Amenta, "the earth of eternity." As Massey states:
The [gospel] scene has now been changed from Amenta to the earth of Seb [Joseph] by those who made "historic" mockery of the Egyptian Ritual, and sank the meaning out of sight where it has been so long submerged.92
The Darkening of the Sun at the Crucifixion
The earth-shattering event of the sun darkening at Christ's crucifixion is also not historical; hence, it appears in no other writing of the day, a detail bothersome to believers and evemerists. As Hazelrigg relates:
Thus, C. Plinius Secund, the elder, and Seneca, both worthy philosophers, wrote in the first century of our Era, dealing exhaustively in accounts of seismic phenomena, but nowhere do they mention the miraculous darkness which is said to have overspread the earth at the crucifixion; neither do they make mention anywhere in their voluminous texts of a man Jesus.93
Like the other contradictory and impossible events of the biblical narrative, this event is only explainable within the mythos. As noted, the same mythical darkening of the sun occurred at the deaths of Heracles/Hercules, Krishna, Prometheus, Buddha and Osiris.94 The phenomena upon the death of Buddha are actually more impressive than those upon Christ's death, as not only did darkness prevail, but "a thousand appalling meteors fell."95 This darkening is only natural, in that when the sun is "crucified," it goes out.
The Resurrection
As we have seen, numerous gods and goddesses have been depicted as having been resurrected, an ongoing, unhistorical event representing various forces and bodies in nature and the cosmos, largely revolving around the sun. As Dujardin relates:
The word "resurrection" means today the return from death to life, but the resurrection of gods never takes the form of a simple return to life after the manner of Lazarus. In primitive religions resurrection expresses a re-commencement analogous to that of Nature in spring, and it is usually concerned with the renewal of vegetation and of the species. But it is not only a recommencement, it is also a renovation. In the sacrifice of Elimination the god comes to life again rejuvenated. Thus, the resurrection is the completion-or rather, the object-of the sacrifice; the god is put to death in order that he may return to life again regenerated. . . Dionysus and Osiris are reborn renovated and also glorified; dead to life terrestrial, they revive to life divine.... The god dies and comes to life again only in order that through him the human society may renew itself.96
The Ascension on the Mount of Olives
As noted, several gods and goddesses around the world ascend to heaven in one way or another. Prior to Christianity, the Mount of Olives was used as a sacrificial site for the Red Heifer rite of the Hebrews,`» who in turn took this rite from Egypt. As Churchward relates:
Jesus rises in the Mount of Olives, but not on the Mount that was localized to the east of Jerusalem. The Mount of Olives as Egyptian was the mountain of