Imagine an Indian kshatriya with a Vaishnava name offering an idol of the Buddha to Isis in a Hellenistic temple in Egypt also used by Bhagavata Hindus. It happened when Egypt was Roman and the Empire had an Arab Caesar. Evidence? Well, we have the idol and the dedication. The latter is in both Greek and Sanskrit.
OK, interesting. I can hear the purists screaming: "Noooo, you´re not allowed to blend different traditions". Try stop me, Karen.
Let´s have some fun. I asked the question below to Gemini. Here we go! Don´t tell USAF...
A somewhat strange (and perhaps hypothetical) question. What god (in any religion) should one pray to / petition if one wants to know the truth of the UFO phenomenon?
This is an excellent thought experiment. Because the UFO phenomenon behaves less like physical, hardware-based nuts-and-bolts aviation and more like a high-strung, liminal, interdimensional intelligence that slips between the cracks of human consensus reality, standard "sky gods" like Zeus or Thor won't cut it.
To peel back the layers of the UFO phenomenon—which involves hidden truths, non-human intelligence, camouflage, and the blurring of physical and psychic realities—you would petition specific deities who rule over liminal spaces, hidden things, and cosmic secrets:
Within the Hindu Mahavidyas, Matangi is the goddess of the ucchishta (the left-overs, the outcaste, and the fringe elements of reality).
Why Her: She rules over things that exist on the margins of polite, official human society—which is exactly where the UFO phenomenon resides. Furthermore, she is the goddess of the spoken word and hidden information.
The Petition: You would pray to Matangi to grant you access to the "restricted files" of cosmic reality, piercing through government cover-ups and human psychological denial to reveal the raw truth.
In Western and Egyptian hermeticism, Hermes (or Thoth) is the psychopomp—the traveler between worlds who translates the language of the divine/non-human into terms humans can comprehend.
Why Him: The UFO phenomenon is deeply tethered to the "trickster" archetype. It appears, breaks the laws of physics, mimics human expectations, and then vanishes. It refuses to be captured by standard scientific observation. Hermes rules over precisely this type of shifting, mercurial, highly elusive information.
The Petition: You would petition Hermes to act as a cosmic translator, helping your rational mind decode the bizarre, high-strangeness data points of encounters without driving yourself mad.
As we explored earlier, Virūpākṣa, the ruby-red Heavenly King of the West, possesses the divyacakṣus (the divine eye that scans the entire cosmos).
Why Him: He rules the western gate—the threshold of transition and the twilight zone between day and night, where the veil between dimensions is thinnest and where the majority of anomalous phenomena are witnessed. His job is to monitor all non-human entities entering the earthly realm.
The Petition: You would petition him to open your eyes, sharing a fragment of his high-altitude, wide-seeing vision so you can see through the atmospheric camouflage used by these phenomena.
If the UFO phenomenon is ultimately an interdimensional reflection of our own collective consciousness (as researchers like Jacques Vallée suggest), you go straight to Bhairava.
Why Him: Bhairava represents the terrifying, unvarnished truth stripped of all comforting human narratives. If the truth of the UFO phenomenon is deeply unsettling to the human ego, Bhairava is the only force capable of showing it to you while keeping your psyche stable.
The Petition: You would petition Bhairava to burn away the false dichotomy of "human vs. alien" and show you the singular, terrifyingly beautiful web of consciousness that underlies both.
If you want to know the raw data and cosmic secrets, pray to Matangi. If you want to understand the bizarre, shape-shifting behavior of the phenomena, petition Hermes. But if you want to know how it connects to the absolute truth of existence, sit before Bhairava.
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So I asked ChatGPT about its "personal" take on the Graeco-Roman mystery cults and how close they were to Christianity...
What mystery cult was closest in your estimation to Christianity, either early Christianity or Christianity in its (medieval) Catholic or Orthodox forms?
If by “mystery cult” you mean the Greco-Roman initiatory religions such as the Eleusinian Mysteries, Dionysian/Bacchic mysteries, Isis cult, Mithraism, and related currents, then my answer would be:
the cult of Isis and Sarapis was probably the closest overall to Christianity in social form, devotional tone, and religious atmosphere—while Mithraism is the one most often compared to Christianity in older scholarship, and Dionysian/Orphic religion may be closest on certain themes of death, rebirth, and salvation.
So I’d distinguish three different senses of “closest”:
My own overall judgment is that Isis is the best answer if we mean “which mystery religion would have felt most familiar, in broad religious style, to a Christian—especially a late antique or medieval Catholic/Orthodox Christian.”
The cult of Isis was not just a secret initiation cult in the narrow sense. It was a broad devotional religion with:
That is already much closer to Christianity than the older civic cults of the polis.
A Christian from late antiquity would have recognized in Isis religion things like:
In some forms, Isis was presented as a near-universal motherly savior figure. That does not make her “basically Mary” or “basically Christ,” but it does mean the religious psychology can feel surprisingly close to later Catholic and Orthodox sensibilities.
Mithraism is the religion that gets compared to Christianity most often in popular discussions. There are reasons for that:
But I think it is less close to Christianity overall than people sometimes imagine.
Mithraism was:
Christianity, by contrast, was from very early on:
So Mithraism is very interesting as a rival mystery religion, but it feels less like Catholicism or Orthodoxy as a whole religious civilization.
If we move away from “institutional resemblance” and ask instead about religious themes, then Orphic–Dionysian religion becomes very important.
There you find things much closer to later Christian existential concerns:
This does not mean “Dionysus = Christ.” That’s too crude. But if you ask:
“Which mystery current has the strongest family resemblance to Christian ideas of dying and rising, salvation, divine life shared with humans, and blessed destiny after death?”
then Orphic/Dionysian religion belongs near the top of the list.
For the first few centuries, I would probably say the closest comparison is a blend:
But if forced to pick one, I would still probably say Isis in terms of the social-religious feel.
Here I would say Isis even more strongly.
Why? Because medieval Catholicism and Orthodoxy are not just “belief in salvation.” They are also:
The cult of Isis, more than Mithraism, had a broad, public, emotionally devotional, liturgical atmosphere that feels closer to that world.
To be clear, it still lacked things central to Christianity:
But in religious style, it is the nearest analogue.
The Eleusinian Mysteries were immensely important, and in some ways very profound. They promised a blessed fate after death and centered on a powerful myth of loss and return. But they were also:
Eleusis is a very strong candidate if you ask:
“Which mystery cult most deeply addressed death and the hope of a blessed afterlife?”
But it is less close to Christianity as a whole civilization and devotional system.
There are real similarities, but they need to be handled carefully. Common features in the wider mystery-religion world include:
Christianity shares some of that religious environment. It emerged in a Mediterranean world where people were already familiar with the idea that religion could mean:
So Christianity did not arise in a vacuum. But it also differs sharply from the mystery cults.
Even the closest mystery cults differ from Christianity in some major ways.
Christianity is centered on:
Mystery cults generally revolve more around mythic sacred drama than historical revelation.
Christianity early on makes very strong claims about:
Mystery cults could be universalizing, but they were usually not universal in quite that exclusive and total way.
The Christian claim that God became man, suffered, died, rose, and incorporated believers into his body is not really paralleled straightforwardly by any mystery cult.
If you asked me for a ranked answer, I’d put it like this:
1. Isis / Sarapis religion
Because it most resembles Christianity in:
2. Mithraism
3. Orphic–Dionysian religion
4. Eleusis
If I had to choose one mystery religion as closest to Christianity—especially Christianity in its later Catholic or Orthodox form—I would choose the cult of Isis, while adding that Mithraism and Dionysian/Orphic religion each resemble Christianity more closely on certain specific dimensions.
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Doreen Virtue´s friend "Jac" talks about her experiences in the Golden Dawn, or rather a modern American version of this 19th century British esoteric order. "Jac" later became a Christian fundamentalist, so don´t expect any objectivity. Put somewhat mildly.
But...
When I listened to this video, I couldn´t help noticing the parallels between the Golden Dawn system (or this particular version of it) and certain forms of Tantrism. The masculine and the feminine must be balanced, the only way to worship a deity is to *become* the deity, Isis is a symbol of primordial matter (among other things), complex rituals are important and yes, it´s all secret (or nearly so).
Wtf, I love Golden Dawn now.
An AI-generated (?) song inspired by "Ancient Aliens". Not very good, but I couldn´t avoid noting the name of the "performer": Iris Binary. It´s some kind of AI-related technical term, but it sounds a bit edgy. Binary as opposed to...non-binary? Paradigm shift ahead, maybe?
Hmmm....
This guy was wrong about Göbekli Tepe and the Eye of Sahara, so is he wrong here, too? Awaiting the next debunk. Maybe.
Archeologists found an Egyptian stela portraying the Roman emperor Tiberius as a Pharaoh. Not sure how interesting this *really* is to Egyptologists, but the non-paying public (bored to death by Cleopatra) might find it intriguing...
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A somewhat unexpected development...I think. Ukraine supposedly has secret agents in Libya who can attack the Russian "shadow fleet"! Note the allegation that British intelligence is assisting the Ukrainians.
LOL. Nothing will come out of this, methinks, but I suppose it could be entertaining distraction if it ever will...
A long interview / conversation with Graham Hancock. It´s from late 2024, but somehow I managed to miss it until now. It does contain some surprising information. For instance, Hancock talks about his life before becoming interested in Atlantis and the Lost Civilization. He also reveals that he and his wife Santha had dinner with Zahi Hawass?! Oookay...
Most of the interview deals with topics which will be familiar to Hancock fans (or opponents, for that matter): the Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia, Alternative Egypt, and the connection between spirituality and psychedelic drugs. And yes, he also discusses UFOs and aliens at one point.
Actually a quite good summary of Hancock´s speculations. For the record, I´m skeptical to the brick-and-mortar Lost Civilization claims, but more open to the idea that alternate states of consciousness gives us a sneak peak into the Otherworld...
Two somewhat rambling videos from Gnostic Informant, the first about Biblical minimalism (the Copenhagen school), the second about Pythagorean number mysticism in the Book of Genesis. Could still be of some interest on a gloomy Thursday afternoon.
It´s intelligent design, captain, but not as we know it.
Oh, and I didn´t know there was an animated cartoon featuring Donald Duck learning about Pythagoras!
Some bizarre facts (or factoids?) coined from various Wiki entries. I mean, wtf.
>>>In traditional medicine in Europe, human fat was believed to have a healing magic significance until the 19th century. Many executioners recovered the fat from the bodies of their executants, called "Armsünderfett" or "Armsünderschmalz" (German: fat or grease from poor sinners put to death), and sold it.
>>>For some executioners the marketing of human fat was a major source of revenue. The human fat was used to make ointments for treatment of various diseases such as bone pain, tootache and gout. It was also regarded as a panacea for particular diseases associated with cachexia (e.g. tuberculosis). Also an analgesic effect in rheumatoid arthritis was attributed to human fat.
>>>From the late 19th century, human fat was produced and offered under the trade name Humanol as a sterile, liquified preparation for injections in Germany. In 1909 it was introduced for surgical treatment of scars, wound disinfection, and wound revisions. In the 1920s it became out of fashion after low cure rates and the incidence of fat embolisms caused by its application.
>>>The Italian surgeon Giovanni da Vigo (1450–1525) defined mumia as "The flesh of a dead body that is embalmed, and it is hot and dry in the second [grade], and therefore it has virtue to incarne [i.e., heal over] wounds and to staunch blood", and included it in his list of essential drugs. The Swiss-German polymath Paracelsus (1493–1541) gave mummia a new meaning of "intrinsic spirit" and said true pharmaceutical mummia must be "the body of a man who did not die a natural death but rather died an unnatural death with a healthy body and without sickness".
>>>The German physician Oswald Croll (1563–1609) said mumia was "not the liquid matter which is found in the Egyptian sepulchers," but rather "the flesh of a man that perishes a violent death, and kept for some time in the air", and gave a detailed recipe for making tincture of mumia from the corpse of a young red-haired man, who had been hanged, bludgeoned on the breaking wheel, exposed to the air for days, then cut into small pieces, sprinkled with powdered myrrh and aloes, soaked in wine, and dried.
>>>He [Pierre Belon] said Europeans were importing both the "falsely called" mumia obtained from scraping the bodies of cadavers, and "artificial mumia" made by exposing buried dead bodies to the heat of the sun before grinding them up. While he considered the available mumia to be a valueless and even dangerous drug, he noted that King Francis I always carried with him a mixture of mumia and rhubarb to use as an immediate remedy for any injury.
>>>The barber surgeon Ambroise Paré (d. 1590) revealed the manufacture of fake mummia both in France, where apothecaries would steal the bodies of executed criminals, dry them in an oven, and sell the flesh; and in Egypt, where a merchant, who admitted to collecting dead bodies and preparing mummia, expressed surprise that the Christians, "so dainty-mouthed, could eat the bodies of the dead".
>>>A mellified man, also known as a human mummy confection, was a legendary medicinal substance created by steeping a human cadaver in honey. The concoction is detailed in Chinese medical sources, including the Bencao Gangmu of the 16th century. Relying on a second-hand account, the text reports a story that some elderly men in Arabia, nearing the end of their lives, would submit themselves to a process of mummification in honey to create a healing confection.
>>>This process differed from a simple body donation because of the aspect of self-sacrifice; the mellification process would ideally start before death. The donor would stop eating any food other than honey, going as far as to bathe in the substance. Shortly, the donor's feces and even sweat would consist of honey. When this diet finally proved fatal, the donor's body would be placed in a stone coffin filled with honey.
>>>After a century or so, the contents would have turned into a sort of confection reputedly capable of healing broken limbs and other ailments. This confection would then be sold in street markets as a hard to find item with a hefty price.
What the fuck...
Some quotes from the Wikipedia entry "Medical cannibalism".
>>>Medical cannibalism in Europe reached its peak in the 16th century, with the practice becoming widespread in Germany, France, Italy, and England. At that time, most "raw materials" for the practice came from mummies stolen from Egyptian tombs; additionally skulls were taken from Irish burial sites and gravediggers sometimes robbed and sold body parts. Medicines were created from human bones, blood, and fat and believed to treat many types of illnesses. Tinctures to treat internal bleeding were made by soaking mummified bodies in alcohol or vinegar. Powdered skull was used to treat ailments of the head, and was sometimes mixed with chocolate to treat apoplexy. In the early 19th century, Englishmen still treated epilepsy by mixing skull with molasses.
>>>Blood, specifically, soon evolved to be seen as a substantial elixir — especially fresh, warm human blood because it was believed to still possess the soul of the deceased. For example, it was believed that drinking the blood of a strong person or a wise person would result in an increase of strength or wisdom, respectively, because once ingested, the spirit of the deceased connected with that of the consumer and lend them its power. This belief was especially common in Germany. Even the poor, who could not afford other remedies, took part in this practice by bringing a cup to executions, paying the executioner a small fee, then filling their cup with the fresh blood. The execution of criminals was seen as having a double advantage: alive they were "a burden on the nation", but their dead bodies had "the power to serve a public good" by improving the health of others.
>>>Europeans also adopted a belief they considered to be of Ancient Egyptian origin, namely that the more valuable corpses were those of young individuals, especially those that had died a brutal sudden death, for it was believed that the spirit would remain trapped within the body for a longer period of time, and thus have greater healing powers.
>>>In Europe, the human blood was normally drunk warm and fresh for increased effectiveness, but some people preferred to have it cooked. Therefore a recipe for turning blood into marmalade was invented. In 1679, a Franciscan apothecary suggested letting the blood partially dry and chopping it into small pieces to allow any remaining water to seep out. Then it was cooked into a batter before sifting it into a jar.
>>>Mummia quickly became popular throughout Europe within the 16th century and was thought to cure all kinds of ailments. To prepare it, the black remnants in the skull and abdominal cavities were scraped out of mummies and placed in a large vase. Apothecaries mixed this mummia with herbs and wine, then prescribed it as medicine for their patients. In Germany, it was still occasionally offered for sale in the early 20th century.
>>>Around the early 1600s, a recipe for a "wine" made from human flesh was invented in Germany. According to this recipe, the body of a human – preferably a young, flawless red-head – was used. The flesh was chopped up and mixed with aloe and myrrh, then mashed and cured into "wine."
Call me a cynic, but how long before this is thoroughly debunked, do you think?
Moses may be named in ancient Egyptian mine inscriptions
Recently, yuge and amazing billboards have scandalized evangelical(?) Christians all over Murica and some have even been vandalized. Yes, the billboards proclaim that Jesus isn´t God and doesn´t pre-exist in heaven. I admit that I don´t really care (I mean, this is just another Tuesday in the You-Ess-Ov-A), but just for the hell of it (pun intended), I looked into the situation.
The billboards are c/o World´s Last Chance (WLC), an anti-Trinitarian Christian group I never previously heard about. The WLC is headed by a former Adventist from Egypt, Galal P Doss, who owns several succesful companies and brands, which presumably explains where the money come from. The group is *very* unpopular among Coptic Christians in Egypt, who claim that Doss tries to evangelize his workforce (including Copts).
I haven´t looked that deeply into WLC´s doctrines, but they seem quite extreme. Flat Earthism is one of them. Another is the claim that the Anti-Christ will impersonate a dead pope, perhaps John Paul II? Or will Francis land in a UFO manned by demons posing as benign aliens? Another important point is a "lunisolar" calendar which supposedly pinpoints when the true Sabbath should be commemorated.
I might return with some more infotainment on this outfit...
Egyptian biscuit baron scrapes prophecy barrel
Flat Earth program on world´s most powerful radio station
Demons will impersonate aliens
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ChatGPT continues its lecture on the monotheism situation. I´m probably going to stop here.
This is a very fruitful angle, because failed monotheisms reveal much more than successful ones. They show what normally prevents monotheism from stabilizing.
I’ll examine the clearest cases, then draw out the structural reasons for failure.
By “failed” we mean:
• A clear move toward exclusive worship of one god
• That did not persist or did not become socially dominant
• Or reverted to plurality after initial success
This excludes:
• Philosophical monism without cult
• Henotheism that never claimed exclusivity
• Exclusive worship of Aten (solar disk)
• Suppression of other cults
• Closure of temples
• Elimination of divine images
• King as sole mediator
This is the earliest clear attempt at monotheism.
• Imposed top-down by the state
• No deep popular support
• Disrupted economic networks (temples were major employers)
• Depended entirely on the king’s authority
After Akhenaten’s death:
• The old gods returned almost immediately
Lesson:
Monotheism imposed without grassroots meaning collapses instantly.
• Strong ethical dualism
• Ahura Mazda as supreme creator
• Moral universalism
• Cosmic struggle between truth and lie
• Early Zoroastrianism may have been close to monotheism
• Later forms retained:
– Yazatas (divine beings)
– Ritual plurality
• Could not eliminate intermediary beings
• Ritual and cosmic pluralism remained
• Adapted to empire without exclusivity
Lesson:
Ethical monotheism alone does not guarantee exclusivity.
• Yahweh as national god
• Other gods acknowledged but forbidden
• Gradual move to exclusivity
• Repeated returns to polytheism
• Local cults persisted
• Texts reflect constant anxiety about apostasy
What saved it:
• Trauma (exile)
• Scribal class
• Canon formation
• Moral universalism
Without these:
• It would likely have reverted
Lesson:
Monotheism requires sustained social stress and textual enforcement.
Solar-focused cults appear repeatedly:
• Egypt (pre-Aten)
• Mesopotamia
• Indo-Iranian traditions
Why they fail to become exclusive:
• The sun is too embedded in nature
• Competes with agricultural, local, and ancestral cults
• Lacks moral specificity
Lesson:
Natural phenomena don’t displace relational gods easily.
Examples:
• Plato’s Good
• Aristotle’s Unmoved Mover
• Neoplatonic One
Why these failed religiously:
• Too abstract
• No mythic narrative
• No ritual economy
• No emotional reciprocity
They influenced theology later, but:
• Did not generate popular monotheism on their own
Lesson:
People worship persons, not principles.
Even where monotheism “succeeds”:
• Angels
• Saints
• Demons
• Intercessors
These function as:
• De facto minor gods
This shows:
Human religious life naturally re-multiplies agents.
Failed monotheisms show this pressure clearly.
Summarizing the recurring causes:
No exclusivity enforcement
No narrative that absorbs older gods
No trauma to motivate theological consolidation
No bureaucratic infrastructure
No emotional accessibility
Miss more than one → failure.
Judaism, Christianity, Islam succeed because they:
• Absorb older gods as:
– Angels
– Demons
– Saints
• Moralize cosmology
• Universalize ethics
• Tie belief to identity
• Are portable across geography
Failed monotheisms lack one or more of these.
Failed monotheisms suggest:
Monotheism is not a “natural religious evolution” but a fragile cultural achievement requiring constant reinforcement.
It is easier to break monotheism than to create it.
Early monotheisms usually failed because they demanded exclusivity without yet having the social, emotional, and institutional tools to sustain it.
If you want next, we could:
• Compare failed monotheisms with non-dual traditions
• Examine monotheism’s internal pluralization
• Explore why exclusivity becomes morally compelling
• Or bring this back to deep prehistory and plural humanity
Just say the direction.
Our man Sheridan is angry again. Apparently, some Wokies claim that the Goth subculture is "cultural appropriation" because it´s vaguely Egyptophiliac and since the ancient Egyptians were Black or colored...well, you get the point. I think Sheridan himself was into "post-punk" in his insufficiently misspent youth, hence his reaction here. I also asked ChatGPT about the Goth scene and its alleged connection to (ancient) Egypt...
Is the so-called Goth subculture to some extent based on ancient Egyptian culture as depicted in Hollywood movies and so on?
That’s a fascinating and perceptive question — and yes, there is a real (if indirect) link between the Gothic subculture and the Hollywood–Egyptian aesthetic, though not in a simple historical or genealogical sense. It’s more about shared symbols, moods, and imagery that entered Western pop culture through 19th–20th century art and film.
Let’s unpack it clearly:
The Goth subculture that emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s — around post-punk bands like Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and The Cure — drew mainly from:
Victorian mourning culture (black lace, death imagery)
Romanticism and Decadence (Byron, Poe, Baudelaire)
Gothic fiction (e.g. Dracula, Frankenstein)
German Expressionist film (Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari)
However, the visual and mystical side of Goth also absorbed a broader occult–Egyptian–esoteric imagery that had already been circulating for a century.
Starting in the 19th century, after Napoleon’s campaigns and the decipherment of hieroglyphs, Egyptomania swept Europe. Ancient Egyptian motifs — ankhs, pyramids, mummies, scarabs, eye symbols — became associated with:
Death and the afterlife
Mystery and immortality
Secret knowledge (occultism, Hermeticism)
Groups like the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and later Aleister Crowley’s Thelema explicitly incorporated Egyptian deities (Horus, Nuit, etc.) into Western esotericism. These symbols filtered into art deco, cinema, and popular occultism — and eventually, into the visual lexicon of Goth.
Hollywood reinforced this link between Egypt and the “darkly romantic”:
The Mummy (1932) with Boris Karloff established the mystical–erotic–deathly Egyptian archetype.
Egyptian imagery (tombs, amulets, eyes, mummies) became shorthand for death, magic, and eternity.
These visuals reappeared in music videos, fashion, and album art by later Gothic and darkwave bands — often via the Art Deco revival of the 1980s.
So while Goths didn’t take their cues directly from Pharaonic religion, they inherited an Egyptianized visual language from 20th-century Western media — which had already mythologized Egypt as the “cradle of ancient mystery and death.”
The ankh — Egyptian symbol of life — became a Goth and vampire subculture emblem (notably through The Hunger [1983] with David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve).
Egyptian motifs appear in the fashion of artists like Siouxsie Sioux (black kohl eyeliner inspired by Egyptian art) and in darkwave album covers.
Occult rock and Gothic literature sometimes merge Egyptian and Christian funerary motifs — both expressing fascination with the threshold between life and death.
| Influence Source | Contribution to Goth |
|---|---|
| Victorian Gothic | Death imagery, mourning, melancholy |
| Romanticism | Emotional intensity, the sublime |
| Egyptomania / Hollywood Egypt | Mystique of death, eternal life, esoteric aesthetics |
| Occult revival | Symbolism (ankhs, eyes, tombs) and ritual imagery |
| Post-punk art | Stylized darkness and theatrical identity |
So, to your point:
→ The Goth subculture isn’t “based on” ancient Egyptian culture itself,
but it absorbed Egypt’s cinematic and occult reinterpretations — the version filtered through Western romanticism, 1930s Hollywood, and the occult revival.
Egypt thus became part of Goth’s shared symbolic vocabulary of death, beauty, and mystery — one of several mythic sources (alongside medieval, Christian, and Romantic ones).
Would you like me to trace how The Mummy (1932) and The Hunger (1983) specifically shaped Egyptian aesthetics in the Goth scene? Those two films are key bridges between Egyptomania and Gothic style.
