Well, think of it like this: Gilgamesh and Enkidu are a god-man and a beast-man who become inseparable, but after they defeat a monster (Humbaba), the gods hold a counsel and decree that the beast-man must die. In the same way, Horus is half-god (from Osiris) and half-beast (from Isis), but after he defeats a monster (Set), the gods hold a counsel and decree that the beast half must die. (I don't think the rest of the Gilgamesh myth quite matches up, though, which is why I consider it Horus-adjacent, though Herakles and Gilgamesh are quite similar!)
As for Atlantis, Plato says that, too (though I can't remember if it was in the Critias or the Timaeus); I suspect Homer hints at the same thing with the Phaiakians (since Poseidon covers them up with a mountain), and I've seen the same in a number of (modern, let's say "new age") Gnostic and channeled texts. I don't have any first-hand knowledge, but I think it's plausible, though I think it more likely that Egyptian culture was a reaction to, rather than a continuity of, Atlantean culture. Look at the West today: most of our problems are related to centralization and subordination of all aspects of life to a particular ideology, and this is failing miserably; I suspect we're repeating the same mistakes of that older civilization. By contrast, the Mysteries were set up to be as decentralized and anti-dogmatic as possible: everyone with their own personal theology connected only by a general cultural framework. So it wouldn't surprise me if the original seeds of Egypt in the deep, deep past were from an Atlantean colony, but after Atlantis destroyed itself, the colony said, "You know what? Let's not do that." and then they spent generations figuring out how to try and keep the good without the bad, which resulted in the Mysteries and a shockingly long-lived civilization. Of course, like anything else, that maybe worked for a while but degenerated over time. It's ironic that what we know of Egypt came from its late decadent and centralization phases!
...I do really wish we knew what was sealed in the hollow chamber beneath the Sphinx!
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As for Atlantis, Plato says that, too (though I can't remember if it was in the Critias or the Timaeus); I suspect Homer hints at the same thing with the Phaiakians (since Poseidon covers them up with a mountain), and I've seen the same in a number of (modern, let's say "new age") Gnostic and channeled texts. I don't have any first-hand knowledge, but I think it's plausible, though I think it more likely that Egyptian culture was a reaction to, rather than a continuity of, Atlantean culture. Look at the West today: most of our problems are related to centralization and subordination of all aspects of life to a particular ideology, and this is failing miserably; I suspect we're repeating the same mistakes of that older civilization. By contrast, the Mysteries were set up to be as decentralized and anti-dogmatic as possible: everyone with their own personal theology connected only by a general cultural framework. So it wouldn't surprise me if the original seeds of Egypt in the deep, deep past were from an Atlantean colony, but after Atlantis destroyed itself, the colony said, "You know what? Let's not do that." and then they spent generations figuring out how to try and keep the good without the bad, which resulted in the Mysteries and a shockingly long-lived civilization. Of course, like anything else, that maybe worked for a while but degenerated over time. It's ironic that what we know of Egypt came from its late decadent and centralization phases!
...I do really wish we knew what was sealed in the hollow chamber beneath the Sphinx!