Are the old testament King Cyrus and the Egyptian God Osiris the same character?
No! The best known dates for the birth of Cyrus is either 600-599 BC or 575-576 BC. Little is known of his early years, as the sources detailing that part of his life are few, and have been damaged or lost. Herodotus’s story of Cyrus’ early life belongs to a genre of legends in which abandoned children of noble birth, such as Oedipus and Romulus and Remus, return to claim their royal positions. His overlord was his own grandfather, Astyages, ruler of the powerful Median kingdom. After the birth of Cyrus, Astyages had a dream that his Magi interpreted as a sign that his grandson would eventually overthrow him. He then ordered his steward Harpagus to kill the infant. Harpagus, morally unable to kill a newborn, summoned Mitradates, a royal herdsman from the mountainous region bordering the Saspires, and ordered him to leave the baby to die in the mountains. Luckily the herdsman and his wife Cyno took pity and raised the child as their own, passing off their recently stillborn infant as th
