May 29, 1828

Gerald Massey (May 29, 1828 to October 29, 1907) was a self taught Egyptologist whose ideas are still viewed skeptically by the professionals. Massey was born into hardship and worked years at manual jobs. He managed to educate himself, for instance through perseverence learning to read hieroglyphics at the British museum. Besides his volumes of poetry, he published several books on ancient Egypt. The last, is entitled, Ancient Egypt, The Light of the World (1907).Here he points out the young god, Atum-Horus was pictured as a cat sometimes: [This] youthful solar god is imaged in the form of a cat, the seer in the dark.

Gerald Massey is a good writer, and this book available free at books.google.com His ideas were fresh, if untenable. For example, he endorsed Darwin's ideas -- Massey just pointed out Darwin was incomplete, you should add man's discoveries known as spiritualism, to the evolutionary story.