Science & Race in Religion: from
Quetzalcoatl to Osiris
© MC 2020
Quetzalcoatl was often considered the god of the morning star, and his
twin brother Xolotl was the evening star (Venus). He was known as the inventor of books and
the calendar, the giver of
maize (corn) to mankind, and
sometimes as a symbol of death and
resurrection. Quetzalcoatl is one of the four sons of
Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, the four Tezcatlipocas, each of whom presides over
one of the four cardinal directions.
Over the West presides the White Tezcatlipoca, Quetzalcoatl, the god of light, justice, mercy and
wind. In the Codex Chimalpopoca, it
is said Quetzalcoatl was coerced by Tezcatlipoca into becoming drunk on pulque,
cavorting with his older sister, Quetzalpetlatl, a celibate priestess,
and neglecting their religious duties. (Many academics conclude this passage
implies incest.) The next morning, Quetzalcoatl, feeling shame and regret,
had his servants build him a stone
chest, adorn him in turquoise, and then, laying in the chest, set himself on fire. His ashes rose
into the sky and then his heart followed, becoming the morning star (see Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli).
He was
regarded as the god of winds and rain
and as the creator of the world and mankind. In Central Mexico from 1200 CE
he was also considered the patron god
of priests and merchants and considered
the god of learning, science, [Thoth in Egyptian] agriculture, crafts and
the arts. He also invented
the calendar, was identified
with Venus, the rising morning star.
As the
morning and evening star, Quetzalcóatl
was the symbol of death and resurrection. With his companion Xolotl, a dog-headed god [Anubis], he was
said to have descended to the underground hell of Mictlan to gather the bones of
the ancient dead. Those bones he anointed
with his own blood, giving birth to the men who inhabit the present
universe. In addition to his guise as a plumed serpent, Quetzalcóatl was often represented as a man with a beard,
and, as Ehécatl, the wind god, he was shown with a mask with two protruding
tubes (through which the wind blew) and a conical hat typical of the Huastec
people of east-central Mexico.
Osiris is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation
in ancient Egyptian religion. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh's
beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive atef
crown, and holding a symbolic crook and flail.
Osiris was at times considered the eldest
son of the god Geb and the sky goddess Nut, as well as being brother and husband of Isis,
with Horus being considered his
posthumously begotten son.
Osiris began to be associated with the cycles observed in nature, in particular vegetation and the
annual flooding of the Nile.
He was
commonly depicted as a pharaoh with
a complexion of either green
(the color of rebirth) or black
(alluding to the fertility of the Nile floodplain) in mummiform (wearing
the trappings of mummification from chest downward).
In one
version of the myth, Isis used a spell
to briefly revive Osiris so he could impregnate
her. After embalming and burying Osiris, Isis conceived and gave birth to
their son, Horus. Thereafter Osiris lived on as the god of the underworld.
Because of his death and resurrection, Osiris was associated with the flooding
and retreating of the Nile and thus with the yearly growth and death of crops along the Nile valley.
Isis was able
to revive Osiris and, once he was
alive, she assumed the form of a kite and flew around him, drew the seed from
his body into her own, and became pregnant with a son, Horus. Even though Osiris now lived, he was incomplete and could no
longer rule the land of the living. He withdrew into the afterlife where he
became Lord and Judge of the Dead. Isis,
fearing what Set might do to her son, hid
Horus among the swamps of Egypt until he was grown. At that point, Horus
emerged as a mighty warrior and
battled Set for control of the world. In some versions of the story, Set is
killed but, in most, he is defeated and driven from the land. The chaos Set had
unleashed on the world was conquered by Horus,
who restored order, and then ruled with his mother.
(Xolotl the dog-headed god = Anubis from the underworld)
He was the god of wisdom, writing, hieroglyphs, science,
magic, art, judgment, Time, and the dead.
As the record keeper of the gods, Thoth also kept account
of the days of human beings. He is seen in a number of images keeping track of
the days and numbering the years by which the Egyptian scribes were able to
record the country's history.
(Caesar was associated with Venus and gave to Rome the Egyptian Calendar from Egyptian Pharaoh Cleopatra VII). Caesar was later assassinated and became associated
with Osiris (Usir, U-sar) by the
Egyptians with Cleopatra as Isis. Their
son Ptolemy Caesar (Caesarion) was the incarnation of Horus the Child).
Quetzalcoatl was
called the “White God” of the Aztecs, the Bearded Man from the East who
promised to return in the future. When the
Spanish conquerors came the Aztecs believed
wrongly it was Quetzalcoatl returning to retake his throne. Some say Quetzalcoatl was colored “black” with blue eyes.
Osiris
was
a King of Egypt whom was assassinated and became King of Heaven, later promising
to return in the future to establish his Eternal Kingdom on Earth. He was painted either green or non-ethnic black for skin color, despite what early Egyptology
said about his “African origins” (E.A. Wallis Budge, for example). Osiris was bearded with blue eyes.
The biblical character Jesus Christ was a King or descended from a King David, educated
and healed people, was assassinated and became King of Heaven with the promise
to return in the future to establish the Eternal Kingdom of God. He was born of a Virgin and under a
Star.
Except
for Caesar, the aforementioned people are in religious stories that represented their
respective Sciences. You could say the “same Gods” created each
story in separate locations without direct contact or that the characters
traveled far and wide to those locations, as in Trade routes.
Or the stories reflect the same exact Science and since
Science should be the same everywhere, the stories appear to be the same.
If you compare the
stories you will see similarities that to the untrained eye will cause you
to believe it is “the same entity” rather
than the “Same Knowledge.”
Black skinned people do not, as far as I am aware, have “blue
eyes.” Color in religious texts may not
relate to actual people, but rather to whatever was meant by it. Green can imply “vegetation or chlorophyll
color.” Black may imply the color of Nile’s fertile mud that is
created when the river flooded every
year (prior to the building of the Aswan High Dam), so the people associated this with the residents of the
Nile and called themselves “Black people” (KEMT), not “black skinned” people.
Also Egyptians practiced “Black Magic” or “Alchemy,” which meant the “black
powder” created by mixing chemicals to make an explosive powder (later
called Gunpowder when traded with
Ancient China). KEMT does not mean “Land
of the Blacks,” as some conspiracy theorists say. In Ancient Egypt the people are depicted in the
Old Kingdom tombs as having “red skin” with dark hair, and the only Black
Africans shown are from the south, or Nubia/Kush (currently under Lake Nasser
when the Aswan High Dam was built). KEMT
is translated as “The Black LAND.” The Red
Land is the Desert (the Egyptian National flag has red and black colors).
Budge’s
books are a source of
misinformation related to this subject.
In them he believed that “Egyptians are black Africans,” so anyone
reading these books written from the 1800’s CE are misinformed. He does compare
then existing African cultures with
Ancient Egypt, however it does not state that Egypt influenced African
culture. I have read books by
Afro-centrist views with this misinformation
sold on the Internet. My advice is to
study Egyptology – not because Egyptology was created “by Europeans” after
Napoleon and later British invasions there – but because Modern Egyptology has updated information that will clarify these views. Also mummies
appear “black” from an oil-based
solution that was poured onto the corpses as a preservative. Tutankhamon’s
mummy has this. © MC 2020.
