u/Neat_Relative_9699

I'm not talking about in one period of time over a 3500-year timespan of ancient period. I'm more so asking if Egyptian influence and references to it were the most widespread of any other religion in that area.

For example: Egyptian gods, stories, and Egypt itself seem to be mentioned by all other neighboring cultures like Persions, Greeks, Romans, Israelites, Assyrians, Hittites, Hurrians, Nubians, Canaanites, Meroitic people, Ethiopia and much more.

Egyptian gods are mentioned anywhere from the Bible, Plato's works, Plutarch, Ovid's Metamorphosis, Assyrian literature (like The Amarna Letters), Herodotus Histories, Myth of the Disappearing Sun and many more.

Am i completely wrong and ignorant of other more widespread and influential religions/mythologies at the time?

If you count all named gods, spirits, personifications, and others like (for Greeks) nymphs, Keres, Apate, Adikia and etcetera, and (for Egyptians) Shamayw, Hatayw, Akhu, etcetera.

For example, Thoth is the god of writing, mathematics, moon, time, fate, creation, wisdom, magic, science, judgment, hieroglyphics, art,etcetera.

Other examples are:

- Ra, god of the sun, time, kingship, order, sky, fate, light, creation and later as air, nile river and rebirth when syncretised with other deities like Sobek, Amun and Kephry.

- Horus, god of healing, moon, sun, kingship, protection, war, sky, creation (in some myths), protection, retribution, and possibly time when connected to the moon.

- Set, god of war, weather, foreigners, deserts, violence, disorder, storms, chaos, earthquakes, etc.

Are there any Greek sources before Plato to mention Egyptian gods, or at least allude to them?

From my research, Neith dates to at least 3600–3350 BCE to prehistory.

My next question would be, do we know what prehistoric Egyptian religion looked like?

Who was the most popular god, and did they have a creator deity before Atum, or is he the first and the oldest deity to be described as creating the world?

From my research, Neith dates to at least 3600–3350 BCE to prehistory.

My next question would be, do we know what prehistoric Egyptian religion looked like?

Who was the most popular god, and did they have a creator deity before Atum, or is he the first and the oldest deity to be described as creating the world?

Stuff like Amun Chanters and 8 papyri.

The most recent example is the new Mummy movie.

Christians inserting their own beliefs in an ancient Pre-Judaism and Pre-Christian stories and culture.

The other example is calling Mesopotamian gods "fallen angels" (although this goes for any polytheistic religion. Like Egyptian gods, Norse gods and Greek gods as examples.)

They are so insecure they're gonna call everything they don't understand 'demonic' and 'evil'.

They are gonna swear on their god that Genesis influenced Epic of Gilgamesh and Enuma Elish and ignore any actual evidence of their book being borrowed from other civilizations and cultures.

The most annoying and infuriating shit they do is say stuff like "Yahweh destroyed Egyptian gods in Exodus".

Like, no, he didn't. That whole book is a propaganda to devalue Egyptian gods and make their god seem stronger to their audiences.

Ancient Israelites were literally making their own fanfiction about Egyptian stories and gods.

Is Aluin the older of the Ainur in the Book of Lost Tales?

I know of only Avesta, Bundahishn and Shahnameh. What are the other ones?

Besides Gil-Galad, which characters have different parants or family trees depending on which source you're reading from?

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Is there anything that predates "The Voyage of Éarendel the Evening Star"?

Is it expected to be in 2044, 70 years after Tolkien's death?

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The oldest Lovecraft story widely considered part of his Mythos are either "Dagon" or "The Tomb," both written in 1917.

The first and the oldest Middle-Earth story was written in 1914 called "The Voyage of Éarendel the Evening Star". The other ones are Fall of Gondolin and Beren and Luthien in 1917 and "Book of Lost Tales" (1916-1920).

So, can Middle-Earth be considered older than Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos?

Who wins this battle in your opinion?