Which deity was the first to be supposedly born of a virgin.?

Question

Good morning all my R/S friends.

Answer 1

Horus... then Mithras, Apollo, Dionysus/Bacchus, Hercules... want more, there's a book called the World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors: Christianity before Christ by Kersey Graves. Some of these are so close to be the exact same story as what is given in the New Testament... the only differences are the names.

Answer 2

Most people will say horus, but this is false it was not a vergin birth it was a form immaculate conception Isis and I forget the fathers name had him, the father was cut into pieces and sown back together then Isis and him had Horus. It was a special birth but not a virgin birth. Trying to fit Jesus in with other story's does not work, the argument has been around for a long time but does not meet the requirements for a copy cat story. If it did you would not have Scholars who are not Christian setting this aside. liberal scholars do not notice this as valid.

You might want to ask would 11 of the 12 disciples die for a lie, why did not one retract and admit they had copied the idea for fame. THey died because they believed every thing they said.

Its a poor argument to get away from the facts of Jesus life. I would suggest looking into the historical reliability of Jesus. You will be suprised as to how strong it is.

Take care.

Answer 3

Horus wasn't born of a virgin. His father was Osiris, and his mother was Isis. However, Horus's birth was "miraculous" in that his father had been killed by Set before he was conceived. Isis then pieced the body back together, made a phallus, and had sex with it. However, nowhere in the myth does it say that she was a virgin.

So to answer your question, it's unknown. Some name Mithras, Krishna, and Buddha as being born of a virgin, but the problem is that most of the texts that speak of those "gods" being born of a virgin came AFTER Christ. So it's unknown who copied whom.

Answer 4

The first mention of Horus "born of a virgin" was some 700 years after the time of Christ, and even then it was advocated by Christian theologians who were trying to find Christian parallels in pre-Christian religion. While Isis was venerated as a Virgin, she was impregnated by the mumified Osiris in Egyptian myth.
And Mithras was born out a rock - not from a virgin.
Dionysus was fathered by Zeus, and was not born of a virgin.
Neither Buddha nor Krishna were virgin born.
Tammuz was born out of the earth (similar to Mithras), and was not born of a virgin.
Heracles/Hercules was fathered by Zeus, and was not born of a virgin. Apollo was the son of Zeus (by Leto), and was not virgin-born.

Answer 5

Jesus was the only one.
If you really do your research you would find out that in all the so called "parallels" sexual intercourse is always involved. Mary was not impregnated by any being in any divine way.

By the way, Kersey Graves's "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors" is not a reliable source. Even atheist websites admit to this. Ask Dawkins.

The parallel argument has been declared dead by intelligent skeptics yet it still being spread by the uncritical and accepted by the gullible.

Answer 6

Eeeh, it might have been Horus but I think that the Zoroastrians had a virgin born deity too.

Answer 7

Yup Horus

Answer 8

Nynus

Nynus (Tammuz) was the first false Messiah, son of Semiramis, the wife/mother of Nimrod. Nimrod supervised the building of the tower of Babel, the pre-cursor to Babylon.

Answer 9

And a Good Morning to you, the only one I know of is Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living, loving, all mighty God.

Answer 10

Horus.

I like the virgin birth of Athena the best though, as she was the only one born of Zeus' fore head.