Horus and Jesus: Gerald Massey’s list of parallels

The famous list of likenesses between Horus and Jesus comes from the Appendix of Gerald Massey’s Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World (1907). It sets 270 Egyptian items beside Christian ones. It is Massey’s argument, not a settled finding: most of these matches are not accepted by Egyptologists or biblical scholars today.

The Mysteries: = The miracles.
The Sem, or mythical representations: = The parables.
The Ritual as the book of resurrection: = The Book of Revelation.
The sayings of Iu or Iu-em-hetep: = The Sayings of Jesus.
Huhi the father in heaven as the eternal, a title of Atum-Ra: = Ihuh, the father in heaven as the eternal.
Ra, the holy spirit: = God the Holy Ghost.
Ra the father of Iu the Su, or son of God, with the hawk or dove as the bird of the holy spirit: = God, the Father of Jesus, with the dove as the bird of the Holy Spirit.
Iu or Horus, the manifesting son of God: = Jesus the manifesting Son of God.
The trinity of Atum (or Osiris) the father, Horus (or Iu) the son, and Ra the holy spirit: = The Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Iu-Su or Iusa, the coming son of Iusāas, who was great with Iusa or Iusu: = Jesus.
The ever-coming Messu or Child as Egyptian: = The Hebrew Messianic Child.
Horus (or Heru), the Lord by name, as a child: = Child-Jesus as the Lord by name (Gospels of the Infancy).
Isis, the virgin mother of Iu, her Su or son: = Mary the virgin mother of Jesus.
The first Horus as Child of the Virgin, the second as son of Ra, the father: = Jesus the Virgin’s child, the Christ as son of the father.
In the app: Library › The Parallels. The app carries all 270 pairs exactly as printed, searchable, beside Book XII where Massey argues each one.

Last updated October 18, 2026.

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