There are many Christians who seem absolutely positive that Jesus was the only of his kind, being unaware that Christ is similar to several other god-men myths in existence, while others will deny their existence and say that it is a lie. Here are some of those other mythical god-men that Jesus, the Christian Messiah, apparently shares roots with.

--Attis was born on December 25 of thhe Virgin Nana.
--He was considered the saviour who was slain for the salvation of mankind.
--His body as bread was eaten by his worrshippers.
--His priests were eunuchs for the kingddom of heaven.
--He was both the Divine Son and the Father.
--On Black Friday, he was crucified oon a tree, from which his holy blood ran down to redeem the earth.
--He descended into the underworld.
--After three days, Attis was resurreected on March 25 (as tradition held of Jesus) as the Most High God.

Dionysus or Bacchus is believed to be Greek, but he is a copy of the Egyptian god Osiris, whose cult extended throughout a large part of the ancient world for thousands of years. Dionysus’s religion was well-developed in Thrace, northeast of Greece, and Phrygia, which became Galatia, where Attis also later reigned. Although a Dionysus is best remembered for the rowdy celebrations in his name, which was Latinized as Bacchus, he had many other functions and contributed several aspects to the Jesus character:

--Dionysus was born of a virgin on Deecember 25 and, as the Holy Child, was placed in a manger.
--He was a travelling teacher who perforrmed miracles.
--He rode in a triumphal procession on aan ass.
--He was a sacred king killed and eaten in a Eucharistic ritual for fecundity and purification.
--Dionysus rose from the dead on Marcch 25.
--He was the God of the Vine, and turrned water into wine
--He was called King of Kings and Godd of Gods.
--He was considered the Only Begottenn Son, Saviour, Redeemer, Sin Bearer, Anointed One, and the Alpha and Omega.
--He was identified with the Ram or LLamb.
--His sacrificial title of “Dendrites” oor “Young Man of the Tree” suggests that he was hung or crucified on a tree.

Dionysus was a prototype of Christ with a cult centre at Jerusalem. During the 1st century BC, he was worshiped by Jews. The symbol for Dionysus/Bacchus’s was IHS or IES, which became Iesus or Jesus. The IHS is used to this day in Catholic liturgy and iconography.

In the Egyptian myth, Horus and his once-and-future Father, Osiris, are frequently interchangeable, as in “I and my Father are one.”

Concerning Osiris, Walker says, “Of all saviour-gods worshiped at the beginning of the Christian era, Osiris may have contributed more details to the evolving Christ figure than any other.” Already very old in Egypt, Osiris, with well over 200 divine names was identified with nearly every other Egyptian god and was on the way to absorbing them all. He was called the Lord of Lords, King of Kings, God of Gods. He was the Resurrection and the Life, the Good Shepherd, Eternity and Everlastingness, the god who “made men and women to be born again.”

Budge says, “From first to last, Osiris was to the Egyptians the god-man who suffered, and died, and rose again, and reigned eternally in heaven, believing that they would inherit eternal life, just as he had done . . .”

Osiris’s coming was announced by Three Wise Men: the three stars Mintaka, Anilam, and Alnitak in the belt of Orion, which point directly to Osiris’s star in the east, Sirius (Sothis), significator of his birth . Osiris was a prototypical Messiah, as well as a devoured Host. His flesh was eaten in the form of communion cakes of wheat, the “plant of Truth.” . . . The cult of Osiris contributed a number of ideas and phrases to the Bible. The 23rd Psalm copied an Egyptian text appealing to Osiris the Good Shepherd to lead the deceased to the “green pastures” and “still waters” of the nefer-nefer land, to restore the soul to the body, and to give protection in the valley of the shadow of death (the Tuat). The Lord’s Prayer was prefigured by an Egyptian hymn to Osiris-Amen beginning, “O Amen, O Amen, who are in heaven.” Amen was also invoked at the end of every prayer.

The teachings of Osiris and Jesus are very similar, and many passages are identically, word for word.

Osiris was also the god of the vine and a great travelling teacher who civilized the world. He was the ruler and judge of the dead. Like that of Jesus, Osiris’s resurrection served to provide hope to all that they may do likewise and become eternal.

Osiris’s “son” Horus or renewed incarnation, shares the following in common with Jesus:

--Horus was born of the virgin Isis-MMerion December 25 in a cave/manger with his birth being announced by a star in the East and attended by three wise men.
--His earthly father was named “Seb” (“JJoseph”).
--He was of royal descent.
--At age 12, he was a child teacher iin the Temple, and at 30, he was baptized having disappeared for 18 years.
--Horus was baptized in the river Eriidanus or Iarutana (Jordan) by “Anup the Baptizer” (“John the Baptist”), who was decapitated.
--He had 12 disciples two of who were his “witnesses” and were named “Anup” and “Aan” (the two “Johns”).
--He performed miracles, exorcised deemons and raised El-Azarus (“El-Osiris”), from the dead. --Horus walked on water.
--His personal epithet was “Iusa,” the ““ever-becoming son” of “Ptah,” the “Father.” He was thus called “Holy Child".
--He delivered a Sermon on the Mount< and his followers recounted the “Sayings of Iusa.”
--Horus was transfigured on the Mountt.
--He was crucified between two thievees, buried for three days in a tomb, and resurrected.
--He was also the “Way, the Truth, thhe Light,” “Messiah,” “God’s Anointed Son,” “the “Son of Man,” the “Good Shepherd,” the “Lamb of God,” the “Word made flesh,” the “Word of Truth,” etc.
--He was “the Fisher” and was associatedd with the Fish (“Ichthys”), Lamb and Lion.
--He came to fulfil the Law.
--Horus was called “the KRST,” or “Annointed One.”
--Like Jesus, “Horus was supposed to reiign one thousand years.”

Furthermore, inscribed about 3,500 years ago [1500 years before Jesus’ alleged advent] on the walls of the Temple at Luxor were images of the Annunciation, Immaculate Conception, Birth and Adoration of Horus, with Thoth announcing to the Virgin Isis that she will conceive Horus; with Kneph the “Holy Ghost,” impregnating the virgin; and with the infant being attended by three kings, or magi, bearing gifts. In addition, in the catacombs at Rome are pictures of the baby Horus being held by the virgin mother Isis—the original “Madonna and Child.”

It was the Gnostic art that reproduced the Hathor-Meri and Horus of Egypt as the Virgin and child-Christ of Rome . . . You poor idiotai, said the Gnostics to the early Christians, you have mistaken the mysteries of old for modern history, and accepted literally all that was only meant mystically.

The similarities between the Christian character and the Indian messiah Krishna number in the hundreds, particularly when the early Christian texts, the apocrypha are factored in. It should be noted that a common earlier English spelling of Krishna was “Christna,” which reveals its relation to “Christ.” Also, in Bengali, Krishna is reputedly “Christos,” which is the same as the Greek for “Christ” and which the soldiers of Alexander the Great called Krishna. It should be further noted that, as with Jesus, Buddha and Osiris, many people have believed and continue to believe in a historical Krishna.

The following is a partial list of the correspondences between Jesus and Krishna:

--Krishna was born of the Virgin Devaki (“Divine One”) on December 25.
--His earthly father was a carpenter,, who was off in the city paying tax while Krishna was born.
--His birth was signalled by a star iin the east and attended by angels and shepherds, at which time he was presented with spices.
--The heavenly hosts danced and sang at his birth.
--He was persecuted by a tyrant who ordeered the slaughter of thousands of infants.
--Krishna was anointed on the head with oil by a woman whom he healed.
--He is depicted as having his foot on tthe head of a serpent.
--He worked miracles and wonders, raisinng the dead and healing lepers, the deaf and the blind.
--Krishna used parables to teach the people about charity and love, and he “lived poor and he loved the poor.
--He castigated the clergy, charging theem with ambition and hypocrisy, before falling victim to their vengeance.
--Krishna’s “beloved disciple” was Arjuiina or Ar-jouan (Jouhn).
--He was transfigured in front of hiss disciples.
--He gave his disciples the ability to wwork miracles.
--His path was “strewn with branches.” --In some traditions he died on a treee or was crucified between two thieves.
--Krishna was killed around the age of 330, and the sun darkened at his death.
--He rose from the dead and ascended to heaven “in the sight of all men.”
--He was depicted on a cross with nail-hholes in his feet, as well as having a heart emblem on his clothing.
--Krishna is the “lion of the tribe oof Saki.”
--He was called the “Shepherd of God” annd considered the “Redeemer,” “Firstborn,” “Sin-Bearer,” “Liberator,” “Universal Word.”
--He was deemed the “Son of God” and “ouur Lord and Saviour,” who came to earth to die for man’s salvation.
--He was the second person of the Triinity.
--His disciples purportedly bestowed upoon him the title “Jezeus,” or “Jeseus,” meaning “pure essence.”
--Krishna is to return to judge the deadd, riding on a white horse, and to do battle with the “Prince of Evil,” who will desolate the earth.

--Mithra was born of a virgin on Deceember 25 in a cave, and his birth was attended by shepherds bearing gifts.
--He was considered a great travelling tteacher and master.
--He had 12 companions or disciples.<
--Mithra’s followers were promised immorrtality.
--He performed miracles.
--As the “great bull of the Sun,” Mithraa sacrificed himself for world peace.
--He was buried in a tomb and after tthree days rose again.
--His resurrection was celebrated eveery year.
--He was called “the Good Shepherd” and identified with both the Lamb and the Lion.
--He was considered the “Way, the Truuth and the Light,” and the “Logos,”[Word] “Redeemer,” “Saviour” and “Messiah.”
-- His sacred day was Sunday, the “Loord’s Day,” hundreds of years before the appearance of Christ.
--Mithra had his principal festival on wwhat was later to become Easter.
--His religion had a Eucharist or “Lord’’s Supper,” at which Mithra said, “He who shall not eat of my body or drink of my blood so that he may be one with me and I with him, shall not be saved.”
--“His annual sacrifice is the Passover of the Magi, a symbolical atonement of pledge of moral and physical regeneration.”

The Vatican itself is built upon the papacy of Mithra, and the Christian hierarchy is nearly identical to the Mithraic version it replaced. Virtually all of the elements of the Catholic ritual, from miter to wafer to altar to doxology, are directly taken from earlier Pagan mystery religions.

--Zoroaster was born of a virgin> and “immaculate conception by a ray of divine reason.”
--He was baptized in a river.
--In his youth he astounded wise men witth his wisdom.
-- He was tempted in the wilderness bby the devil.
-- He began his ministry at age 30.
--Zoroaster baptized with water, fire annd “holy wind.”
--He cast out demons and restored the siight to a blind man.
-- He taught about heaven and hell, aand revealed mysteries, including resurrection, judgment, salvation and the apocalypse.
--He had a sacred cup or grail.
--He was slain.
--His religion had a Eucharist.
--He was the “Word made flesh.” <
--Zoroaster’s followers expected a “ssecond coming” in the virgin-born Saoshynt or Saviour, who is to come in 2341 CE and begin his ministry at age 30, ushering in a golden age.