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“Finally, a third component of Egyptian cosmogony is, historically speaking, at the origin of the revealed religions (the Judeo-Christian in particular). “

“In fact, Ra is, in the history of religious thought, the first God, autogenous (who was not created, who has neither father nor mother).”

“On the other hand, Seth, jealous because he is sterile, kills his brother Osiris (who symbolizes vegetation, from the discovery of agriculture to the Neolithic period).The latter rises from the dead to save humanity (from famine!). Osiris is the god of redemption.”

“In any case, Osiris is the god who, three thousand years before Christ, dies and rises from the dead to save men. He is humanity’s god of redemption; he ascends to heaven to sit at the right hand of his father, the great god, Ra. He is the son of God. In the Book of the Dead, it is said fifteen hundred years before Christ: ‘This is the flesh itself of Osiris.’ Dionysus, Osiris’s replica in the northern Mediterranean, will say five hundred years before Christ: ‘Drink, this is my blood; eat, this is my flesh.’ And one can see how the degradation of these types of beliefs can lead to the notion of the sorcerer who eats people in Black Africa.”

Cheikh Anta Diop
“Civilization Or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology”
Page 312