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Flac: @ Kettle.
Thanks for the correction/supplement. I will have to look further into your claims later...

@ Flashie.
I hardly think that Aten had anything to do with Lucifer, apart from maybe a distant biological kinship. From what I heve read, Lucifer can be associated with Enki (or Ea), a Sumerian god-king that fought a terrible war with his half brother Enlil. The Bible authors have used so-called "pro-Enlilite sources", so that when they refer to this power struggle in Genesis, Enlil is called "God", while Enki/Lucifer is referred to with the degrading term "serpent" and regarded as "an evil creature". I believe that all other references to Lucifer as "a fallen angel" and similar contexts should be taken with a pinch of salt as purely mythical stories.

Liberado: Flashie, I’m really glad you mentioned the Michael Tsarion interviews on Red Rice Radio. I’m not familiar with this historian nor Red Rice. Is it an internet radio station? I think I’m going to look it up. I’d love to hear what Tsarion has to say. I happen to agree with him about many of the Bible stories having their origins in ancient Egyptian (or older) stories as well as seasonal astrological occurrences.

The Ancient Egyptians had at least a couple of stories that depict the resurrection. And in these stories, the resurrected, is Osiris, one third of their holy trinity; the other two being Horus and Isis.

One story is very similar to the Sumerian one mentioned by Flac, about Enlil fighting with his brother, Ea. But in the Egyptian story, Osiris was done in by his brother, Set (who is sometimes compared to Satan). And Isis brings about Osiris’ resurrection. But another story that I find a little more fascinating than that one talks about one of the manifestations of Osiris as grain. And that sowing the seeds symbolized burying the slain god. And harvest time represented the resurrection and ascension. And the grain was made into bread to be eaten by the people--thereby nourishing and saving them.

The flood story can be compared to what the Egyptians called The Great Inundation, or the annual flooding of the Nile River, where boats were commonly used for transportation. The Egyptian equivalent for the name Noah is Nuakh. The Hebrew pronunciation, BTW is Nuach. The ‘ch’ is pronounced the same as in ‘Bach’. In Egyptian, Nu, means the great flood, and Akh means garden, or an irrigated field. I’m told that Nu or Nuh can also mean intoxication. And we know from the Bible that Noah had a vineyard and apparently a drinking problem.

He, his three sons, and all their wives, were the only people left after the flood and represented the Ogdoad in Hermopolis, or the eight gods who existed before creation, i.e., the ancestors of man.

Another interesting story is of Onan being killed by the Christian god because he spilled his seed on the ground instead of impregnating his dead brother’s wife. The Egyptian for his name is Aunen (Aunan in Hebrew). ‘Au’ means ground and ‘Nen’ means to anoint. So together you have anoint the ground. This can also be associated with Unan (a form of the god, Ra), who created man after m#^#x&z&*~&$, and if I’m not mistaken, spilling his seed on the ground.

Just thought I’d share these. Of course there are many other connections.