Egypt and Cultural Influence

[caldrail]

I've become increasingly aware of how influential Egypt has been over millenia in the ancient world, it set many themes that are suprising, sometimes disturbing, but fascinating nonetheless. Check this video out to learn more...

 

Edited December 6, 2022 by caldrail

[Novosedoff]

The video mainly touches the religious aspects of the ancient Egyptian world. The narrative draws some parallels of comparison between the Egyptian religious cults and the Christian Bible, confirming the well-known fact of the religious syncretism in the ancient world. The biblical story of the poor in Heaven and the rich in Hell from St.Luke (a milestone of the Christian propaganda for millennia to come) and its parallel with the tale of Si-Osiris is somewhat interesting as it illustrates how well St Luke must have been familiar with Egyptian sources (neither English wiki article on Luke the Evangelist, nor the corresponding Spanish article don't mention Egypt at all, while the Russian article says that St Luke had travelled along the southern Mediterranean coast up to Libya via Egypt, which probably contributed to his later work). I've always been a little sceptical about the factors behind St.Luke's exceptional literary productivity (perhaps voluminosity would be a better English word) compared with 3 other evangelists, always suspecting that there could have been a group of people writing under the common name of St Luke (in mathematics a good example of such collaborative work would be Nicolas Bourbaki - even some mathematicians believe that Bourbaki was a person 🙂)