Vedic influence in Egypt

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The Osiris-Isis, Set & Nepthys myth of the Egyptians has its origin in Vedic India as well. Osiris & Set represent Siva and Rudra respectively. Siva and Rudra is the same person but each name represents one personality of Siva. According to the Puranas, Rudra was created by Brahma. Brahma’s wrath took birth as Rudra. Rudra is considered to be Brahma’s son. Brahma ordered Rudra to split into a male and female form for the purpose of creation. Rudra then splits into a Rudra form and a Shakti form. Eight to eleven more such forms were created. If we look at the Egyptian mythology it says that Osiris & Isis are siblings (twins). Earlier when I read the Osiris-Isis myth it seemed very crude to me that a culture would consider a brother and sister to be married; but, after the reading the Puranas I realized that since Rudra split himself into a male and female form, Rudra and Shakti could be called as twins though they are not uterine twins. The Vedic Indians had complete knowledge of this concept where as the Egyptians did not. The Egyptians thought that brothers and sisters could get married; thus the Egyptian Pharoahs married their own sisters whereas this is not allowed by the Vedic culture. The Egyptian religion lacked the sophistication of the Vedic religion; the Egyptian religion was an off shoot of the Vedic religion but some of the Vedic concepts got muddled. Each of the 8 forms of Rudra have unique characteristics. The form of Siva is considered to be benevolent whereas the form of Rudra is considered to be malevolent; similar to this the Egyptians saw the good in Osiris & bad in Set. The killing of Osiris by Set could be compared to killing of Daksha Prajapati by Rudra; Osiris& Set were brothers similarly both Daksha Prajapati & Rudra are sons of Brahma.

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