To the best of my knowledge, in the entire 3000-year span of its existence, not once in ancient Egyptian art do we see the death of Osiris at the hands of his brother Set.
If true (and my knowledge of the field is nowhere near exhaustive), this is a remarkable fact, and makes some profound suggestions about the thought-life of the ancients.
What is shown endures. What is shown is empowered. What is shown is made real.
So that the death of a god, the Great Sacrifice, while—terribly so—a necessity, can never in itself be an inherent good.
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Indeed. The midnight Resurrection service is one of humanity's great liturgical masterpieces. Until you've been to Orthodox Easter
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When I was taking my history of western Art class back in the early 80's I remember the teacher mentioning that art in the Eastern
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It's a powerful, shocking image, to be sure. As an outsider looking in, it's hard not to see the crucifix as an image that glorif
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Many of us who identify as Christian are also horrified at the fixation on the Crucifixion and how that fixation has twisted and o