ZEITGEIST: THE MOVIE

Miracles: As in many other religions, the Egyptian gods and goddesses were known to produce miracles,
including healing the sick, ―walking on water‖ and raising the dead. Regarding Horus being associated
with healing, Greek historian of the first century BCE Diodorus Siculus remarks:
They say Horus, in the Greek Tongue, is Apollo, who was taught both medicine and divination by
his mother Isis, and who showers benefits on the race of man through his oracles and his cures. 77
Concerning the motif of the god ―commanding the waters,‖ Murdock relates:
In BD [Book of the Dead spell] 62…the deceased, who is Re or Osiris, pleads to have ―command
of the water,‖ saying, ―May I be granted power over the waters…‖
Spells 57, 58 and 59 of the BD are titled chapters for ―command of water‖ or ―having power over
water,‖ while BD 57 includes the request:
Oh Hapi, Chief of the heaven! in thy name of Conductor of the Heaven, let the Osiris
prevail over the waters... 78
Murdock also writes:
The command over water includes the crossing of the ―celestial river‖: ―Upon reaching the sky,
the life-essence of the King approaches the celestial gate and/or the celestial river.‖ When the
king reaches the river with his ―mentor‖ Horus, he requests the god to take him with him: ―Since
Horus has already crossed the river with his father in mythical times…, he can apparently then
cross the river at will.‖ 79
For much more on these subjects, see Christ in Egypt, pp. 285-308.
77 Diodorus/Murphy, 31-32.
78 Murdock, CIE, 293.
79 Murdock, CIE, 296-297.
Horus the Child on the Metternich Stela
c. 380-342 BCE
(Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY)
―This stele represented the power to protect man
possessed by all the divine beings in the
universe, and, however it was placed, it formed
an impassable barrier to every spirit of evil and
to every venomous reptile.‖
(Budge, Legends of the Egyptian Gods, lxii)