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Magi help.

You seem to confuse virgin birth and Immaculate conception. It's a common mistake but the two are completely different concepts, and the very idea of original sin is absent from Egyptian myths, as far as I know, so there cannot be immaculate conception outside of judeo-christian religions (unless some other religion also has an original sin aspect somewhere).

Good point. But I was aiming for nonsexual conception. I think we can automatically rule out any hint that Isis was a virgin, since her general image doesn't fit that ideal. The reason I even bring this up is that in the particular myth where Osiris is incompletely reassambled, he is the father of Horus through nonsexual conception.
 
Zygar said:
I thought the sun god part came as a result of being temporarily combined with Ra.

Probably the opposite -- he and Re/Ra were sun gods amongst others. They probably became associated because both were important and served important functions in the mythology, but as Re became more important as a sun god, Horus became less important in that function and they were melded. Horus seems to have been a solar diety from the beginning from what I recall. Amun and Re were also melded to some extent not only because they represented different aspects of the sun (at setting -- Amun; midday -- Re) but probably because different priests came to prominence at different times.
 

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