Documented from the Egyptian texts: Horus, son of Osiris and Isis, conceived after Isis reassembled her slain husband, falcon-headed sky god, avenger of his father, patron of kingship. The birth was celebrated in Khoiak, roughly late November, not December 25. There is no crucifixion, no three-day resurrection, no twelve disciples in the primary sources; the sun's daily death and rebirth is genuine Egyptian theology, and the halo-disk is genuinely solar. The parallel list as lectured derives from Gerald Massey and was popularized by Maxwell and Zeitgeist.
The folk persistence is itself the finding: debunked line by line for two decades, the Horus-Jesus list still circulates, because it serves as compressed proof that religion is recycled astronomy. The counter-folk, Christian apologists, answer with the citation failures, and the two camps have fought to a documented stalemate over a bibliography.
The claim: the details fail but the archetype holds, the dying-and-rising solar hero recurs because it encodes the soul's cycle, not plagiarism, and Horus, Mithras, and Jesus are local renders of one esoteric template. The psychologist's version calls it archetype; the trap version calls it the wardens' reboot cycle.
What do the parallels being half-invented tell us about why they spread so fast?