I left Chariklo a link that she can research for herself, to see the truth of those claims or not.
Hi tec, yes, you did and thanks very much! I've been a while getting back to you because I was wandering off in research of all sorts! I also explored the thread on here about Horus.
It is not really that I am looking for the truth or otherwise of any individual claims. It's much more that the parallels beween different mythologies is something I'm finding very interesting indeed, and of course that includes very, very much more than just Egyptian and Norse mythology, though those are two that do resonate well with me.
I'm interested because I detect a worldwide ring (figurative ring!) of truth underlying these very diverse yet similar stories, from all manner of nations and cultures, all over the world. This in no way detracts from me the truth of Jesus Christ, by which I do not mean the Jesus of the WT with his invisible re-entry onto the scene, sitting down on a throne and taking up his sceptre, inspecting world religions in 1919. Not at all. That Jesus doesn't really figure in my thinking, and I'd have been disfellowshipped pretty quickly if I'd ever made it to baptism because I never really believed all of that...I just kept my thoughts to myself when surrounded by literal-minded JW's, which is 99.9999% of them here.
I am sure that what I call this deep underlying truth explains the attraction of epic tales such as, in modern times, The Lord of The Rings, or films such as Star Wars with the concept of Jedi knights, Sith Lords, the Force and midichloreans. As well as all the well-known ancient mythologies of Greece, Rome and India etc.
I was just wondering if others here muse along similar lines. I think it must be verey hard for those still in the WT. I could not bear my mind not to be free to think.