This was a passing comment in a review of game that went into a ramble about ancient Egypt based on an account by Plutarch which alone raises red flags.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA2UAeFMWFs&t=330s
This doesn't seem right that their own religious stories would be censored but I don't know enough about ancient Egypt. It was implied to be rooted in religious thought that words had power and again I don't know much about the religion beyond names like Set and Horus and what the fundamental philosophical idea was.
Every time I try to find a source on this, I am redirected back to modern day censorship of Egypt.
Could an expert on Egyptian religion shed more light on this?
Oh man, I wish I had my books with me. Yes, this is true, though "censor" is perhaps not the right term for understanding the phenomena. "Taboo" would maybe suit it better. Do you know the myths surrounding the deity of Osiris? See, Osiris was an Egyptian deity who, according to the mythology, once presided as king over Egypt. However, his brother Seth (a god of chaos and of the desert) got jealous, invited him over for a dinner party on false pretenses and assassinated him.
He then cut up his body into little pieces and hid them all over Egypt. Osiris's consort, Isis, searched all over Egypt and found every part except for his penis (if my memory serves me, a fish of the Nile ate it). It's alright though, because she whips up a magic penis and has sex with his revived body, impregnating herself. Their child is Horus, the falcon-headed god who avenges his father's death. Osiris's spirit finds renewed life in the underworld, over which he now rules (aptly stationed there as the lord of resurrection, and thus being associated with vegetative cycles as well).
This is a very important Egyptian myth, and it has been reconstructed in full from a multitude of sources, many of them (if not most) partial retellings. However, the murder of Osiris is never explicitly mentioned in any of them. We know what happened to Osiris because the Egyptians explicitly mention everything else...Seth's jealousy, his trickery, Osiris's resurrection and the vengeance exacted by his son Horus. Yet nowhere is the phrase "and then Seth murdered his brother" to be found.
Why is that? Well, the Egyptians had intriguing ideas about art and language, and it was believed that the scenes which they depicted in their papyri, temples and tomb walls had an innate, sacred power to manifest their subjects into reality. This is why the tombs of Egyptian elites are filled with things like provisions, servants, chariots and everything else that the deceased would want in their afterlife, accompanied by hieroglyphics. The image and the word, never too distinct in this context if you consider it, had the power to bring those ideas into reality within the realm of the duat, or underworld.
Since language and art may bring their subjects into reality, would you really want to depict the murder of a god? Probably not. So they didn't. Which is why we only know that Seth killed Osiris through the context clues of the mythical fragments we possess. Luckily, the Egyptians were a literate society and wrote a lot of things down, so we have plenty of context to work with.
My primary source for this information is "The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt" by Richard H. Wilkinson, though you can find more information about the Osiris cycle in "Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt" by Geraldine Pinch.
I am visiting my family for the holidays and so I don't have my books with me, therefore I cannot provide exact quotations or anything like that. If anyone wants to jump in and get even more specific or elaborate with some detail, that would be awesome.