ZEITGEIST: THE MOVIE

texts of Anup—being ―Suten tu hetep, Anup, neb tser khent neter ta krast-ef em set‖ (Birch,
Funereal Text, 4 th Dynasty). ―Suten hept tu Anup tep-tuf khent neter ha am ut neb tser krast ef em
as-ef en kar neter em set Amenta‖ (Birch, Funereal Stele of Ra-Khepr-Ka, 12 th Dynasty). Anup
gives embalmment, krast; he is lord over the place of embalmment, the kras; the lord of
embalming (krast), who, so to say, makes the ―krast.‖ The process of embalmment is to make the
mummy. This was a type of immortality or rising again. Osiris is krast, or embalmed and
mummified for the resurrection. Passage into life and light is made for the karast-dead through
the embalmment of the good Osiris (Rit., ch. 162)—that is, through his being karast as the
mummy type. Thus the Egyptian krast was the pre-Christian Christ, and the pictures in the
Roman Catacombs preserve the proof. 72
For a detailed discussion of the term ―karast‖ or ―krst,‖ see Murdock, CIE, pp. 313-318.
Regarding Anubis‘s role as not only embalmer but also ―purifier,‖ Murdock remarks:
… as embalmer, Anubis‘s purifying role in mummification is made clear in the fact that he
presides over the ―House of Purification‖ and ―Tent of Purification,‖ the latter called tp-jbw in
Egyptian. In describing the funerary rituals, Dr. Lesko states:
Pouring of water, for its life-giving as well as purification qualities, was part of every ritual.
The corpse, whether first desiccated or not, would have been washed (in the Tent of
Purification) and then anointed and wrapped in the embalmer‘s shop. Seven sacred oils
used for anointing the body are known already in the first dynasty…. 73
There is much more to this subject, and interested parties are directed to the 28-page chapter ―Anup the
Baptizer‖ in Murdock‘s Christ in Egypt.
Anubis purifying the Osiris
(Renouf, Egyptian Book of the Dead, 51)
16. Horus had 12 disciples he traveled about with, performing miracles such as
healing the sick and walking on water.
Again, these themes were not all rolled into one in this manner in an ancient text but are put together here
in order to reconstruct the Horus myth, the same as mythographers do with modern encyclopedia entries.
The motifs exist separately in a variety of texts, from which the creators of Christianity evidently drew for
their narrative.
12 Disciples: In Chaldean Magic: Its Origins and Development, French archaeologist Francois
Lenormant states:
72 Massey, AELW, I, 218. For a discussion of Massey‘s work, which was based on that of the best Egyptologists of
his day, some of whom also reviewed his writings prior to publication, see Christ in Egypt, pp. 13-23.
73 Murdock, CIE, 249.