ZEITGEIST: THE MOVIE

Counted among these ―sons of Jupiter‖ depicted in cruciform may be the Greek god Prometheus, who
was portrayed both in ancient writings and in pre-Christian artifacts as being bound to a cross or in
cruciform. As related by the Catholic Encyclopedia:
...On an ancient vase we see Prometheus bound to a beam which serves the purpose of a
cross.... In the same way the rock to which Andromeda was fastened is called crux, or cross.... 95
Prometheus crucified using chains c.
350 BCE
Greek vase
(www.theoi.com/Gallery/T21.4.html)
Regarding the Egyptian god in cruciform, Thomas W. Doane relates:
Andromeda crucified using chains
c. 79 AD/CE
Wall painting, Pompeii
(www.uwm.edu/Course/mythology/0800/underworld.htm)
Osiris, the Egyptian Saviour, was crucified in the heavens. To the Egyptian the cross was the
symbol of immortality, an emblem of the Sun, and the god himself was crucified to the tree, which
denoted his fructifying power.
Horus was also crucified in the heavens. He was represented, like... Christ Jesus, with
outstretched arms in the vault of heaven. 96
Horus with arms outstretched in vault of heaven
(Sharpe, Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum, 143)
(NB: This image was originally on a papyrus and is here and in Christ in Egypt
depicted upside down for purposes of more readily illustrating the point.)
This concept of Horus with outstretched arms or wings is confirmed by Egyptologist Dr. Hornung:
Horus shows himself in the image of the hawk whose wings span the sky… 97
Horus is also evidently linked with what some scholars would call his ―Gnostic Counterpart‖: a figure
known as ―Horos-Stauros,‖ a title in Greek meaning ―Boundary-Cross,‖ the latter word stauros being the
exact term used in the New Testament to describe Jesus‘s cross. (E.g., Mt 27:32; Mk 15:30; Jn 19:19)
95 CE, vol. 4, 519.
96 Doane, 484.
97 Hornung, CGAE, 124.