Lord Emsworth

I just encountered the claim that Peter derives from an Egyptian God.

What's up with that?

Thanks in advance

Peter Kirby

That's news to me!

best,
Peter

Vorkosigan

I always knew you were the son of a god, Peter.

Lord Emsworth

Here is something more specific:

Link: http://mama.indstate.edu/users/nizra...efutation.html


Is there something to it?

Toto

I have never heard of an Eyptian god named Petra, but I am not that up on Egyptian gods.

I did find this bit of nonsense:

This seems to be major linguistic confusion, as if every word that sounds like PTR goes back to the same root. But I wonder if that is the source that your website used.

This is from a site devoted to Protestant prophesy, not one of your atheist mythicist sites.

Arthur Drews in The Legend of St Peter does connect the post-Biblical legendary Peter (who is the gatekeeper in heaven) with the Roman god Janus and some of the late Roman aspects of Mithra. But I don't know of an Egyptian connection.

I am more intrigued by the Luke - Lykos - Apollo possibility. I can see that a physician might have wanted to use a name associated with a healing god, or that a fiction writer would have picked that name for a physician. The only problem is that Luke in Greek is usually spelled Loukos, not Lykos. And I cannot confirm that Lykos was another name for Apollo.

Magdlyn

Pagan is general. Does he mean to imply all non-Xtian or non-Jewish religions were the same and its practitioners spoke the same language? Is this also well-known among said students?

Is he implying padre, pater, ie: father? BTW, Greek does distinguish between alpha and epsilon, no?

So, father. Were temples also called fathers? Why?


But petros in the NT means rock (stone?), not father. He ignores this, which is stated in the very text.

Mat 16:18 And I tell you, you are Petros (stone), and on this rock (petra) I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it.

The very word "father" is a religious term? Where does he get patora? Is that a word--either Greek or otherwise?

Which culture? Greek, Egyptian, Canaanite?

Now he is claiming all temples were called Peters? Does he think that will fly?

I understand Greek had quite specific vowels. Egyptain had hieroglyphics which were whole syllables or words. Again, he is implying all pagan religions and languages are the same. How silly. Who would believe this? Who would be lame enough to assert it publically?

Where?


So now we have one word or series of consonants meaning 3 different things:

father

interpreter

rock

But our linguist implies it is all one word: interpreter.

Is this true?

Does anyone care to add to this? BTW, I do have a big book on Egyptian mythology and I see no specific god named Peter.