{"id":2513,"date":"2010-06-01T18:35:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T18:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/massey-gerald\/"},"modified":"2022-05-10T08:23:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T07:23:32","slug":"massey-gerald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/massey-gerald\/","title":{"rendered":"Massey, Gerald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gerald_massey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-27398\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gerald_massey-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"gerald_massey\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gerald_massey-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gerald_massey.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a>Gerald<\/strong> <strong>M<\/strong><strong>assey <\/strong><strong>(1828-1907) <\/strong>was an English\u00a0poet and self-taught Egyptologist. One result of his studies was to identify the Egyptian god Horus with Jesus. On the subject of Atlantis, Massey claimed that sun-worshipping Atlanteans migrated to Egypt but failed to identify their place of origin. His huge work on ancient Egypt,\u00a0<em>Ancient Egypt: The\u00a0Light of the World<\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/m\/\"><sup>1515<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>,<em>\u00a0<\/em>is widely available.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&gt;<\/span><\/strong>His other major work was <em>A Book of the Beginnings<\/em> <sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/m\/\">1929<\/a>]<\/sup> with an introduction by <a href=\"#ShepardLeslie\">Leslie Shepard<\/a>.<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&lt;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u00a0are extensive websites<sup>(a)<span style=\"font-size: small;\">(b)<\/span> <\/sup> dealing with his work and his sources<sup>(c)<\/sup>, which include <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/taylor-thomas\/\">Thomas Taylor\u2019s <\/a>translation of Plato\u2019s <em>Critias<\/em> and <em>Timaeus<\/em> as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/proclus-lycaeus\/\">Proclus<\/a>\u2019 commentary on <em>Timaeus<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a) <\/sup> See: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170618062721\/http:\/www.masseiana.org\/intro.htm\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170618062721\/https:\/\/www.masseiana.org\/intro.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup> (b) <\/sup>See: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190327231447\/http:\/gerald-massey.org.uk\/massey\/index.htm\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190327231447\/https:\/\/gerald-massey.org.uk\/massey\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170618062721\/http:\/www.masseiana.org\/intro.htm#Part_Five\">Introduction to the Works of Massey (archive.org)<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald Massey (1828-1907) was an English\u00a0poet and self-taught Egyptologist. One result of his studies was to identify the Egyptian god Horus with Jesus. On the subject of Atlantis, Massey claimed that sun-worshipping Atlanteans migrated to Egypt but failed to identify their place of origin. His huge work on ancient Egypt,\u00a0Ancient Egypt: The\u00a0Light of the World[1515],\u00a0is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2259,1151,105,2550,2626,2103,2508,403],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-critias","tag-egypt","tag-gerald-massey","tag-leslie-shepard","tag-proclus","tag-thomas-taylor","tag-timaeus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54255,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/54255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}