Holy Elephantnoses

Originally posted by jiggerpolebill
youre using info from "Real Magick - the Occult Library"? maybe the guys in the "Heaven's Gate" cult kept elephant noses as well. just before they checked out for the meteor.

"Fishes were often regarded as unclean animals which were forbidden as offerings and food to kings, gods and the priesthood. When the cult of Osiris became popular, the fish was identified with Seth, as, according to Plutharch people believed that the fish form lepidotus had eaten the phallus of the dismembered Osiris. Therefore, on certain feast days fishes were burned and trampled underfoot as an offering."

sounds like these fish are sucker fish. c**ksuckers at that!
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nice.. you forgot the rest of the SECOND paragraph: here it is:

The opposite also existed, fishes were regarded as sacred animals: despite the belief of the above, the oxyrinchus was considered Osirian, and said to have been created out of the god's wounds. This fish was also connected to Hathor at Esna and the Abdu or Abydos fish accompanied the solar barque and warned of the hostile Apophis serpent.

Oxyrinchus is Mormyrus

this website took the info from the following one:
http://www.philae.nu/PerAnkh/perankhM.html#Mormyrus
 
so wheres your proof that they worshipped them?

Ive never seen any elephant nose temples.
 
did you read the links..proof is in there. Read on, my fellow fish keeper

Now you give proof they werent worshipped..
 
Why do you attack my 7/11 dictionary? Are you some kind of elitist snob?

Actually, I looked in the Oxford English Dictionary, but no luck. There seems to be a lamentable lack of topics there, only word definitions.

One cannot "prove " a negative. Logically impossible, if you think (!) about it. "Prove that the French do not worship bananas! Go ahead, prove it! Where's your proof?!" See how silly?

I loved that last site you posted, especially the parts about astral projection and tarot reading parrots.

PS: my Enose sends his regards, and wants you to send him some chocolate-coated frozen brine shrimp, as an offering.
 
there is no proof they were worshipped.

there are only comments like this

The opposite also existed, fishes were regarded as sacred animals
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Lots of things were sacred to the Egyptians, it didnt mean they worshipped them.
 
ive re-read your links and i dont see any statements in them that specifically say that the actual fish itself was worshipped. it doesnt mention any sacrifices being offered up to this fish or any other methods of worship. no examples of the fish blessing its followers in any way either. its simply held in very high regard with respect to some religion. its no different than the cow or the Cross or the Star of David, etc. etc.
 
reliable? how so? the first one is a geocities page that anyone could make.

neither one says anything about the fish being worshipped. Thats as ridiculous as saying the Egyptians worshipped the grain because they had a god of harvest.
 
yes, i did read them. did you? ALL of the article? not just the few sentences youre looking for to substantiate your claim?

"Oxyrinchus is Mormyrus" you said.

wrong. here's whats said in the article you linked to:

"Oxyrhynchos is an Ancient Egyptian provincial capital 125 miles south of Cairo & 10 miles West of the Nile (modern Behnesa). "

youre not even spelling it right. its a city. not a fish.

and youre other link is the same information, verbatim. you can hardly list two sources if they say the exact same thing.
 
yes...anyone can make a geocities website..but the author gave his sources..



yes..its ALSO a city...
 
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