Post by Malcolm on Aug 12, 2014 1:39:41 GMT -5
This is yet one more story from Ancient Egypt that found its way into the Bible. Yet upon reflection of the cruelty meted out to these unfortunate animals by people of a Catholic Church in Wisconsin this past weekend, one can only wonder whether it be man or swine that is possessed by the Devil.
Gerald Massey:
"Death by drowning in the lake was the mode of execution appointed for the evil Apap and his host of darkness who attacked the solar bark by night. The fiends of Sut are also included in this sentence of death by drowning in the emerald lake of heaven, or of dawn. Now the fiends of the evil Sut were represented as swine. And immediately after the great tempest in the sea which Jesus stills, the devils are made to enter the swine, and, like the emissaries of Apap and of Sut who “causes storms and tempests”, they are driven down the mountain-side to suffer death by drowning in the lake.
It was on the mount that Jesus met with the man obsessed with a legion of devils who “entreated him that he would not command them to depart into the abyss”. “Now there was a herd of swine feeding on the mountain”, “and the devils came out from the man and entered into the swine”, and the herd rushed down the “steep into the lake and were choked” (Luke VIII. 33).
It was by Sut, in the shape of a great black boar, that Horus was gored in the eye. It was also the Pig of Sut that devoured the arm of Osiris in the burial-place. And when the evil spirits are cast out, as represented in the judgment-scenes, they enter the swine of Typhon and are driven down the side of the mount to be submerged in the Lake of Putrata or the fathomless abyss of outer darkness."