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Was the Egyptian god #Horus born of a virgin?
Um, #No, and here is why:
According to the myth, #Isis' husband #Osiris was killed and later dismembered. Isis brought him back to life and together...they had #SEX. Thus, Horus was conceived. There is an alternative version where she is impregnated by a "divine fire" which seems at first like a virgin
conception...until you realize that not only had she been married to Osiris before Osiris was murdered, that there is no indication that they had a sexless marriage before then, and that they had sex while they were both inside the same womb (Nut's womb to be exact). Hard to be
a virgin when you've had sex before you were even born!
Sources:
Plutarch, "Isis and Osiris", 12
"The Way To Eternity" by Fergus Fleming, Alan Lothian and Dr Joann Fletcher (consultant) page 58
"The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology" by Arthur Cotterell and Rachel Storm, page 290.
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