- Is born to a mortal woman impregnated by god
- Is the descendant of royalty or is going to be future king
- Has his life threatened when he's born and has to be hidden away
- A prophecy is given saying that the savior/hero will do great things
- Performs miracles like raising people from the dead, healing the blind, turning water into wine, etc
- Dies and resurrects or overcomes death
- The savior/hero born to a mortal woman, son of god, prophecy saying he will do great things or be future king:
Luke 1: 29-33:
Matthew 1:20-25:Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. 30 But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. 31 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”
Osiris/Horus/Pharaoh/Si-OsireBut after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus,[f] because he will save his people from their sins.”
22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 23 “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).
24When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. 25 But he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.
From "Chronicle of a Pharaoh: The Intimate Life of Amenhotep III" by Joann Fletcher:
From "Handbook of Egyptian Mythology" By Geraldine Pinch:At Luxor we can follow the great king from his divine conception right through his life, and beyond. The story begins with Amun diplomatically taking the form of Tuthmosis to visit Mutemwia, who is asleep in the inner rooms of her palace. According to the inscriptions that accompany the temple reliefs, "She awoke on account of the aroma of the god and cried out before him ... He went to her straight away, she rejoiced at the sight of his beauty, and love for him coursed through her body. The palace was flooded with the god's aroma. "Words spoken by Mutemwia before the majesty of this great god Amun-Ra: `How strong is your power! Your dew fills my body,' and then the majesty of this god did all that he desired with her.Words spoken by Amun-Ra: `Amenhotep, ruler of Thebes, is the name of this child I have placed in your body ... He shall exercise the beneficent kingship in this whole land, he shall rule the Two Lands like Ra forever.'" The sandstone reliefs depict the couple's fingers touching briefly—and in this auspicious instant Amenhotep, son of Amun, is conceived.
From "God's Wife, God's Servant: The God's Wife of Amun (ca.740–525 BC)" by By Mariam F. Ayad:Many kings claimed that they, like Horus, had been chosen to rule "while still in the egg". In practice, it was the inaugeration rituals that turned the chosen heir into "the living Horus"...The accession of individual kings might be validated by giving them a divine parent. One such royal birth myth is found in the inauguration incriptions of King Horemheb[c. 1319-1307 BCE]. Horemheb was a soldier who served under Akhenaton and Tutankhamun, but the inscription presents his career in mythological terms. He is called the son of Horus...Horemheb claims that his exceptional qualities were evident as soon as he was born and that Horus of Hnes always intended that he should be king...Horemheb is then able to restore the country and it's institutions to the way things were "in the time of Ra"
From "Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt" By Geraldine Pinch:...a union with the king's mother and the supreme deity imbued the future king with his divine nature. It was precisely this divine nature that enabled an Egyptian king to serve as a mediator between mankind and the gods<e><e>[/b]</e></B></e></B>. Temple scene representing the king's divine conception and birth are known from the reigns of Queen Hatshepsut(c. 1479/73-1458/57 BC) and Amenhotep III(c. 1390-1352 BC)"
From "Ancient Egyptian Literature: Volume 3: The Late Period" by Miriam Lichtheim:Harsiese [Horus, son of Isis] was destined to be king from the moment of conception.
I also wanted to add here that there are more parallels between the stories of Si-Osire and Jesus such as Si-Osire impressing his teachers at temple at the age of 12 and the parable of the rich man and poor man in gLuke.[One night] she dreamed that one spoke to her [saying:"Are] you Mehusekhe, [the wife] of Setne, who is lying [here in the temple] so as to recieve healing?----[When tomorrow has come] go to [the place where your husband] Setne bathes. You will find a melon vine grown there. [break off a branch] with it's gourds and grind it. [Make it into] a remedy, put it in [in water and drink it]---[you will recieve the fluid of conception] from him that [night]. Mehusekhe awoke [from] the dream in which she had seen these things. She acted in accordance with (5) [everything she had been told in the dream. She lay down by] the side of her husband [Setne]. She received [the fluid of] conception from him. When [her time of purification came she had] the sign [of a women who has concieved. It was announced to Setne, and] his heart was very happy on account of it.
One night Setne slept [and dreamed that one spoke] to him, saying: "Mehusekhe, your wife, has received [the fluid of conception from you]. The boy that shall be born [shall be named] Si-Osire. Many are [the wonders that he shall do in Egypt. Setne awoke] from the dream in which he had seen these things. [and his heart was very happy.
[Mehusekhe] made [her months of pregnancy]----[When her time of bearing] she bore a male child. When Setne was informed of it [he named him] Si-Osire, in accordance with what had been said in the dream.---(10)---, they cradled him and nursed him.
From "Ancient Egyptian Literature: Volume 3: The Late Period" by Miriam Lichtheim:
From https://www.ancient.eu/article/1054/the ... nce-setna/:H. Gressmann's penetrating study, "Vom reichen Mann und armen Lazarus", has made it plausible that the contrasting scenes of the richly buried nobleman who is tortured in the netherworld and the cursorily buried poor man who becomes an honored nobleman in the netherworld were genuinely Egyptian motifs that formed the basis for the parable of Jesus in Luke 16, 19-31, and for the related Jewish legends, preserved in many variants in Talmudic and medieval Jewish sources.
DionysusThe stories have influenced many later writers and important works of literature. Herodotus cites Setna as the high priest Sethos in one of his best-known passages regarding the troops of the Assyrian king Sennacherib defeated by mice who gnaw through their equipment while they sleep (Histories II. 141). This passage is his version of the story told in the biblical book of II Kings 19:35 in which an angel of the Lord destroys the Assyrian army laying siege to Jerusalem. The sequence from Setna II in which Setna and his son Si-Osire travel to the underworld draws upon Greek mythology and influences later Christian scripture in the story of the rich and poor man in the afterlife.
The contrast of the rich and poor man in life and death, later skillfully used by the author of the Book of Luke, illustrates the importance of the central value of ancient Egypt: observance of ma'at.
From http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Dionysos.html and http://www.theoi.com/Georgikos/Zagreus.html:
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus# ... nd_rebirth:Dionysos was a son of Zeus and the princess Semele of Thebes...ZAGREUS, "the first-born Dionysos," was a god of the Orphic Mysteries. He was a son of Zeus and Persephone who had been seduced by the god in the guise of a serpent. Zeus placed Zagreus upon the throne of heaven and armed him with his lightning bolts.
From Philodamus' Paean to Dionysus:Dionysus' mother was a mortal woman, Semele, the daughter of king Cadmus of Thebes, and his father was Zeus, the king of the gods
From Euripides Bacchae:Come here lord, Dithyrambus, Bacchus greeted with "hail", bull, ivy-tressed, Roarer, come in these spring times that are holy - O io Bacchus, O hail Paean - whom in Thebes once, where "hail" is cried, Thyone of fair children bore to Zeus, and all the immortals danced, and all mortals rejoiced 10 at your birth, O Bacchian. Hail Paean, come, saviour, kindly preserve this city with a blessed era of prosperity
Hercules:They particularly insist on the preternatural birth of Dionysus from Semele, on which doubts had been impiously cast by Pentheus. They implore Thebes, the birthpace of Semele, not to reject the holy rites; and predict , with the usual enthusiasm of religious votaries that the whole earth will soon be converted to the new worship.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracles# ... _childhood:
From Diodorus Siculus "Library of History Book IV. 1-18":Heracles was the son of the affair Zeus had with the mortal woman Alcmene...He was a great-grandson and half-brother(as they are both sired by the god Zeus) of Perseus[founder of the Perseid dynasty]
AclepiusWhen the natural time of pregnancy had passed, Zeus, whose mind was fixed upon the birth of Heracles, announced in advance in the presence of all the gods that it was his intention to make the childwho should be born that day king over the descendants of Perseus<
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepius#Birth:
From Aelian, On Animals 10. 49 (trans. Scholfield) (Greek natural history C2nd A.D.):He was the son of Apollo and, according to the earliest accounts, a mortal woman named Coronis
From Pindar, Pythian Ode 3. 5 ff (trans. Conway) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.):The god [Apollon] can not only save life but is also the begetter of Asklepios (Asclepius), man's saviour and champion against diseases.
From Ovid, Metamorphoses 2. 620 ff (trans. Melville):His mother, daughter of Phlegyas the horseman...even though her maiden bed she had already shared with Apollon[the god Apollo] of the flowing hair, and bore within her the god's holy seed
So when she felt the prophetic frenzy in her mind, and was on fire with the god enclosed in her breast, she looked at the infant boy and cried out ‘Grow and thrive, child, healer of all the world! Human beings will often be in your debt, and you will have the right to restore the dead. But if ever it is done regardless of the god’s displeasure you will be stopped, by the flame of your grandfather’s lightning bolt, from doing so again. From a god you will turn to a bloodless corpse, and then to a god who was a corpse, and so twice renew your fate.
- Savior's/hero's life threatened at birth and having to be hid away from harm:
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_the_Innocents:
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_into_Egypt:According to the Gospel of Matthew,[1] Herod ordered the execution of all young male children two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem, so as to avoid the loss of his throne to a newborn King of the Jews whose birth had been announced to him by the Magi.
Horusan angel appeared to Joseph in a dream telling him to flee to Egypt with Mary and the infant Jesus since King Herod would seek the child to kill him.
From "Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt" By Geraldine Pinch:
From https://www.ancient.eu/Horus/:His epithet, "Horus who is upon the papyrus," alludes to the myth that Isis hid the infant Horus in the papyrus thickets of Akh-bit[Chemmis], an island among the marshes.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metternich_Stela:Isis endured a difficult pregnancy with exceptionally long labor and gave birth to Horus alone in the swamps of the Delta. She hid herself and her son from Set and his demons in the thickets, only going out at night for food accompanied by a bodyguard of seven scorpions who were given her by the goddess Selket. Selket (and, in some versions of the story, Neith) watched over Horus while Isis went out. Isis, Selket, and Neith nurtured Horus and educated him in their exile until he was grown to manhood and was strong enough to challenge his uncle for his father's kingdom.
DionysusSet was content thinking he would become the pharaoh of the living, but what he didn't know was that Isis was pregnant with Osiris's child. He would become pharaoh of the living because of his birthright. After Isis gave birth to Horus, it was thought that he would become the new pharaoh of the living, but once Set found out he became very angry.
At this point the actual spell starts on the Magical Stela. Set had the child poisoned by a scorpion, which is often associated with the serpent demon,
Apophis. Isis was outraged with grief at the death of her child. She called out to Ra and asked him for his aid. He sent Thoth who restored the child
to life. From that point Ra would act as an advocate to Horus, just as his father Osiris would've done if alive.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus# ... nd_rebirth:
http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Dionysos.html and http://www.theoi.com/Georgikos/Zagreus.html:Zeus's wife, Hera, discovered the affair while Semele was pregnant. Appearing as an old crone (in other stories a nurse), Hera befriended Semele, who confided in her that Zeus was the actual father of the baby in her womb. Hera pretended not to believe her, and planted seeds of doubt in Semele's mind. Curious, Semele demanded of Zeus that he reveal himself in all his glory as proof of his godhood. Though Zeus begged her not to ask this, she persisted and he agreed. Therefore, he came to her wreathed in bolts of lightning; mortals, however, could not look upon an undisguised god without dying, and she perished in the ensuing blaze. Zeus rescued the unborn Dionysus by sewing him into his thigh...A jealous Hera again attempted to kill the child, this time by sending Titans to rip Dionysus to pieces after luring the baby with toys...According to the myth, Zeus gave the infant Dionysus to the care of Hermes. One version of the story is that Hermes took the boy to King Athamas and his wife Ino, Dionysus' aunt. Hermes bade the couple to raise the boy as a girl, to hide him from Hera's wrath...Another version is that Dionysus was taken to the rain-nymphs of Nysa, who nourished his infancy and childhood...while Mount Nysa is a mythological location, it is invariably set far away to the east or to the south. The Homeric hymn to Dionysus places it "far from Phoenicia, near to the Egyptian stream"
HerculesBound by oath, the god was forced to comply and she was consumed by the heat of his lightning-bolts. Zeus recovered their unborn child from her body, sewed him up in his own thigh, and carried him to term...After his birth from the thigh of Zeus, Dionysos was first entrusted to the care of Seilenos (Silenus) and the nymphs of Mount Nysa, and later to his aunt Ino, Semele's sister, and her husband Athamas. Hera was enraged when she learned of the boy's location and drove the couple mad, causing them to kill both their children and themselves...However the most popular locale remained Mt Nysa which later writers relocated in the east far beyond the boundaries of Greece: in Phoenicia, Egypt, Arabia, or India...Zeus placed Zagreus[Dionysus] upon the throne of heaven and armed him with his lightning bolts. The Titanes, incited by the jealous goddess Hera, sneaked into Olympos and offered the boy a collection of toys, tricking him into setting aside the lightning. They then seized and dismembered him with their knives.
Diodorus Siculus "Library of History Book IV. 1-18:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracles:After Alcmenê had brought forth the babe, fearful of Hera’s jealousy she exposed it at a place which to this time is called after him the Field of Heracles.
[4.10.1] After this Hera sent two serpents to destroy the babe, but the boy, instead of being terrified, gripped the neck of a serpent in each hand and strangled them
AsclepiusThus, Heracles' very existence proved at least one of Zeus' many illicit affairs, and Hera often conspired against Zeus' mortal offspring as revenge for her husband's infidelities...Fear of Hera's revenge led Alcmene to expose the infant Heracles, but he was taken up and brought to Hera by his half-sister Athena, who played an important role as protectress of heroes.
Pindar, Pythian Ode 3. 5 ff (trans. Conway) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.):
http://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/Asklepios.html:Long ago he [Kheiron (Chiron)] nursed gentle Asklepios (Asclepius), that craftsman of new health for weary limbs and banisher of pain, the godlike healer of mortal sickness. His mother, daughter of Phlegyas the horseman, ere with the help of Eleithyia, the nurse of childbirth, she could bring her babe to the light of day, was in her chamber stricken by the golden shafts of Artemis, and to the hall of death went down For she in the madness of her heart had spurned the god, and unknown to her father took another lover, even though her maiden bed she had already shared with Apollon of the flowing hair, and bore within her the god's holy seed...But when upon the high wood pure her kinsmen had set the maid, and the flames of Hephaistos shot their bright tongues around her, then cried out Apollon : ‘No longer shall my soul endure that my own son here with his mother in her death most pitiable should perish thus, in sorry grief.’ So spoke he and in one stride was there, and seized the babe from the dead maid; and round him the blazing flames opened a pathway.
Then he took the child to the Magnetian Kentauros (Centaur) [i.e. Kheiron (Chiron)], that he teach him to be a healer for mankind of all their maladies and ills.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepius#Birth:His mother died in labour and when she was laid out on the pyre, Apollon cut the unborn child from her womb...Asklepios was raised by the centaur Kheiron (Chiron) who instructed him in the art of medicine.
His mother was killed for being unfaithful to Apollo and was laid out on a funeral pyre to be consumed, but the unborn child was rescued from her womb. Or, alternatively, his mother died in labor and was laid out on the pyre to be consumed, but Apollo rescued the child, cutting him from Coronis's womb...Apollo carried the baby to the centaur Chiron who raised Asclepius and instructed him in the art of medicine.