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okasha

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9. I would say that most literature
Wed Dec 24, 2014, 06:43 PM
Dec 2014

relating the divine paternity of heroes, unlike Luke and Matthew, does not have a.canonical form. There are, however, plenty of narratives that make quite clear that physical sexual intercourse is involved. Here are a few:

Amun visits Pharaoh Hatshepsut's mother in the bodily form of her husband, giving Hatshepsut a better claim to the Evyptian throne than her nephew, Thutmose III.

Isis constructs a prosthetic phallus for Osiris before she reanimates him to conceive Horus. Not to mention that Isis and Osiris had been married literally from birth.

Poseidon visits Theseus' mother in the guide of the Athenian King Aegeus.

Krishna is his mother's eighth child. It's asking a
bit much to believe she remained a virgin through
seven pregnancies.

There are many more examples, but those should give you an idea of how these narratives approach the subject.

Jesus'






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