Caliph al Mamun was neither portly nor physically unable to traverse tunnels. He was a trained swordsman, battle hardy, strong, well built man, and a warrior who had successfully defeated the great Byzantine empire and personally led expeditions into europe over snow clad mountains and rough terrain.
Not to be outdone by the Jews, Christians invented Christmas. Hah! In religion, jealousy reigns supreme!
Even though Christmas has nothing to do with the birth of Jesus (Iesus), the Roman Catholic Church had to come up with something to compete with Chanukah/Hanukah.
So, they "stole" a festival from Egypt, sprinkled a little "Jesus Dust" on it, and "voila!" we have "instant Jesus".
I'm sorry, but I don't agree with the sentence "helped to create a Slavic civilization". Slavs already had civilization with old indo-aryan alphabet. These two missionaries ruined what Slavs had and if they still practiced old faith, they was killed.
Thanks for this article. It's great that legends of my nation are published world wide. There are thousands of legends in the Czech Republic. Almost every town or region has couple of them. This one, though, is really important for it gives, and gave, hope to the Czech nation.
As a child, I was always under the impression that this was a Christian burial, going by the lettered strip that is shown at the bottom of the photograph. From memory this reads "Ave Sorore Vivas In Deo."
I may of course have misremembered, and the strip I recall belongs to another burial dug up during the construction of the current station.
I enjoyed your article very much. I found your discussion of building with burnt bricks versus mud bricks, and how that connects to the story of the Tower of Babel, particularly interesting. Religious stories must always be read with a very close eye to fully and completely understand them and so that they have meaning for our lives. You seem to have accomplished that here and provided a different interpretation of the story from the more conventional one.
The Dresden Codex also contains, (on page 76), the Flood Story, as well as the era/age/world it took place, (near the end of the 4th World), why it took place, (the creation of mankind by the Serpent), who caused the flood, (the Archaic Serpent), and who else helped save mankind from the flood waters, (the Feathered Serpent).
I guess you are prepared for a blast of criticism for that last part. But not from me – interesting, and I agree with your analysis of the multiple predictions.
It seems also, Rabbi Maller, that there was also another main reason for confusing the languages. Genesis 11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. 6 And the LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. http://esv.to/Gen11.5-6
If one ascribes that humanity was created in a superior physical and mental state, these verses seem to indicate that humans would have created weapons of war and technology that would have made it easy for sinful humans to have a one world government under a false religion and tyranny would have prevaled. Simular to what happened pre-flood. As one sees in recent history, science and technology really took off in western Europe when scientists communicated in one language. Mainly French. English is now what scientists from diverse countries communicate in.
I read this article with interest. Unfortunately, it is nowhere noted that the two brothers - St. Cyril and Methodius are Bulgarian scholars. As a Bulgarian, I insist to emphasize their origin because the article loses its credibility. Even in the enclosed pictures, a plate of Glagolitic of Polish origin is presented. The great importance of St. Cyril and Methodius is for all Slavic peoples, but they are primarily Bulgarians.
Please read post 13, which I just posted. It proves that I know what I’m talking about and furthermore that you’re an idiot. And by the way, my definition of an idiot is much lower than yours.
First, I created a video I want people to watch and give me their opinion. https://youtu.be/sl6u7DK6Ny0 Second, the god of the bible and all religions is more sick than probably any of you know. Because they’re all made up. No one can know any god, and furthermore everyone to exist was damned without hope before they were born. It never ceases to amaze me how almost every person in every nation spews the same murderous garbage. Their god is the real god. Some other nation is the evil god. They are child murderers. We must eliminate them. The whole idea of being anti-pedophilia and a protector of the innocent is an excuse to cover up something much sicker. That all are damned, all death is the same, and much of the pain, suffering and death is happening because almost no one is trying hard enough to evade death. People all over the world claim their forgiven or can be by a god and live like it. It’s all a lie so people can attempt to annihalate every one else (including their own race) and claim it was of god. I’m half jewish, and I always like to tell this joke : People ask me why I think Hitler did what he did to the jews. I tell them, probably living next to them for too long. I hope you realize I don’t specifically hate the jews. You can tag someone as racist, but it’s just another word for a patriot. None really cares what color you are, most will stab you in the back the minute you’re not looking. I know what the world’s problems are, and they are far, far worse than most think. I study the bible, I know it well Let me tell you a tiny detail I know. And if you think it’s amazing, I find stuff like that all the time. All the geneologies of Genesis from Adam through Jacob add up to something. There is only one other person’s age mentioned after that, and it’s joseph. The sum I got was 23,999. And when I listed jacob, I left the first two columns blank. Since it doesn’t list a son and his age when he had him. Now I’ll tell you why that is. The words and numbers were at one time a chart a person(s) created of how our time is, the days, years and so on. I have A LOT of evidence to back that up. It was some type of chart comparing a year to 1,000 days. There are 24,000 hours in 1,000 days. I believe someone found the recordings later or they were passed down wrongly believed to be a geneology. As I said, there is only one name mentioned after jacob, his son joseph. The bible says, at the very end of genesis joseph told physicians to embalm his father. It says the embalming took 40 days, and then the egyptians mourned for him 70 days. That’s 110 days. Then at the end of the same chapter, gen 50, it says joseph died being 110 years old. And that’s not the strangest part. Joseph was the 11th son of jacob. 110, 110, 11.0 That was not a geneology, as I wrote earlier I have a lot of proof. I also have a lot of proof the bible and all religions are a lie. I have a lot of proof such as numbers names and so forth from the bible, but all religions are basically the same : a lie.
The Israelis claim is that ALL the land from the Tigris to the Nile is based on the "promise" Abraham's "god" made to him after he left his homeland and later chose to murder his own son. I think Abraham's "god" is a little too bloodthirsty for me. How about you?
So now, after approximately 3,000 years and millions of deaths later the Jews expect the entire world to cling to this crazy promise from their "god" even though most Jews today are atheists. Is that crazy or what? Anyway, this is my opinion.
See ya, Pilgrim. Hah!
My understanding has always been that Gehenna was merely a place where the dead went, a holding place if you will. Could you tell me where you found that it is a fiery place of torment. Thank you
The content was good for breaking through common movie concepts of the gladiator, but I found this more than a bit jarring. "Learning that the majority of gladiators weren’t actually slaves, but free men who had volunteered for a slice of glory and winnings, makes gladiator fighting seem all the more bizarre and barbaric. Why choose a blood battle over traditional forms of trade and commerce?" Trade is barbarism that can't see its own damage. The reason is that men have an inborn desire to triumph over one another, and some are willing to do that "to the death". This is the real human species.
Finding a ramp means nothing unless it is determined how to move "limestone and granite blocks, each weighing an average of 2.3 metric tons." This is just used by archaeo's because it goes along with their predetermined belief system.
"Although many of us now associate hell with Christianity, the idea of an afterlife existed much earlier."
This is factually incorrect. Christianity is, to Christians, and the first believers who were Jewish of course, the outcome of the Jewish belief in a Messiah. Many Jews believed and converted non-Jews but other Jews did not believe Jesus was the Messiah.
In the Old Testament, Gehenna is a fiery place of torment. There are references to this in the OT that are chronologically earlier than Enoch. I mean, c'mon. Jewish culture did have a belief in Hell during the post-exilic period when Enoch was written.
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Caliph al Mamun was neither portly nor physically unable to traverse tunnels. He was a trained swordsman, battle hardy, strong, well built man, and a warrior who had successfully defeated the great Byzantine empire and personally led expeditions into europe over snow clad mountains and rough terrain.
Not to be outdone by the Jews, Christians invented Christmas. Hah! In religion, jealousy reigns supreme!
Even though Christmas has nothing to do with the birth of Jesus (Iesus), the Roman Catholic Church had to come up with something to compete with Chanukah/Hanukah.
So, they "stole" a festival from Egypt, sprinkled a little "Jesus Dust" on it, and "voila!" we have "instant Jesus".
I'm sorry, but I don't agree with the sentence "helped to create a Slavic civilization". Slavs already had civilization with old indo-aryan alphabet. These two missionaries ruined what Slavs had and if they still practiced old faith, they was killed.
Thanks for this article. It's great that legends of my nation are published world wide. There are thousands of legends in the Czech Republic. Almost every town or region has couple of them. This one, though, is really important for it gives, and gave, hope to the Czech nation.
As a child, I was always under the impression that this was a Christian burial, going by the lettered strip that is shown at the bottom of the photograph. From memory this reads "Ave Sorore Vivas In Deo."
I may of course have misremembered, and the strip I recall belongs to another burial dug up during the construction of the current station.
I enjoyed your article very much. I found your discussion of building with burnt bricks versus mud bricks, and how that connects to the story of the Tower of Babel, particularly interesting. Religious stories must always be read with a very close eye to fully and completely understand them and so that they have meaning for our lives. You seem to have accomplished that here and provided a different interpretation of the story from the more conventional one.
The Dresden Codex also contains, (on page 76), the Flood Story, as well as the era/age/world it took place, (near the end of the 4th World), why it took place, (the creation of mankind by the Serpent), who caused the flood, (the Archaic Serpent), and who else helped save mankind from the flood waters, (the Feathered Serpent).
Bolches yarboclos
I guess you are prepared for a blast of criticism for that last part. But not from me – interesting, and I agree with your analysis of the multiple predictions.
It seems also, Rabbi Maller, that there was also another main reason for confusing the languages. Genesis 11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. 6 And the LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. http://esv.to/Gen11.5-6
If one ascribes that humanity was created in a superior physical and mental state, these verses seem to indicate that humans would have created weapons of war and technology that would have made it easy for sinful humans to have a one world government under a false religion and tyranny would have prevaled. Simular to what happened pre-flood. As one sees in recent history, science and technology really took off in western Europe when scientists communicated in one language. Mainly French. English is now what scientists from diverse countries communicate in.
Hey Ramesses One One, you look like sh*t; what's your "secret"?
I read this article with interest. Unfortunately, it is nowhere noted that the two brothers - St. Cyril and Methodius are Bulgarian scholars. As a Bulgarian, I insist to emphasize their origin because the article loses its credibility. Even in the enclosed pictures, a plate of Glagolitic of Polish origin is presented. The great importance of St. Cyril and Methodius is for all Slavic peoples, but they are primarily Bulgarians.
Please read post 13, which I just posted. It proves that I know what I’m talking about and furthermore that you’re an idiot. And by the way, my definition of an idiot is much lower than yours.
First, I created a video I want people to watch and give me their opinion. https://youtu.be/sl6u7DK6Ny0 Second, the god of the bible and all religions is more sick than probably any of you know. Because they’re all made up. No one can know any god, and furthermore everyone to exist was damned without hope before they were born. It never ceases to amaze me how almost every person in every nation spews the same murderous garbage. Their god is the real god. Some other nation is the evil god. They are child murderers. We must eliminate them. The whole idea of being anti-pedophilia and a protector of the innocent is an excuse to cover up something much sicker. That all are damned, all death is the same, and much of the pain, suffering and death is happening because almost no one is trying hard enough to evade death. People all over the world claim their forgiven or can be by a god and live like it. It’s all a lie so people can attempt to annihalate every one else (including their own race) and claim it was of god. I’m half jewish, and I always like to tell this joke : People ask me why I think Hitler did what he did to the jews. I tell them, probably living next to them for too long. I hope you realize I don’t specifically hate the jews. You can tag someone as racist, but it’s just another word for a patriot. None really cares what color you are, most will stab you in the back the minute you’re not looking. I know what the world’s problems are, and they are far, far worse than most think. I study the bible, I know it well Let me tell you a tiny detail I know. And if you think it’s amazing, I find stuff like that all the time. All the geneologies of Genesis from Adam through Jacob add up to something. There is only one other person’s age mentioned after that, and it’s joseph. The sum I got was 23,999. And when I listed jacob, I left the first two columns blank. Since it doesn’t list a son and his age when he had him. Now I’ll tell you why that is. The words and numbers were at one time a chart a person(s) created of how our time is, the days, years and so on. I have A LOT of evidence to back that up. It was some type of chart comparing a year to 1,000 days. There are 24,000 hours in 1,000 days. I believe someone found the recordings later or they were passed down wrongly believed to be a geneology. As I said, there is only one name mentioned after jacob, his son joseph. The bible says, at the very end of genesis joseph told physicians to embalm his father. It says the embalming took 40 days, and then the egyptians mourned for him 70 days. That’s 110 days. Then at the end of the same chapter, gen 50, it says joseph died being 110 years old. And that’s not the strangest part. Joseph was the 11th son of jacob. 110, 110, 11.0 That was not a geneology, as I wrote earlier I have a lot of proof. I also have a lot of proof the bible and all religions are a lie. I have a lot of proof such as numbers names and so forth from the bible, but all religions are basically the same : a lie.
The Israelis claim is that ALL the land from the Tigris to the Nile is based on the "promise" Abraham's "god" made to him after he left his homeland and later chose to murder his own son. I think Abraham's "god" is a little too bloodthirsty for me. How about you?
So now, after approximately 3,000 years and millions of deaths later the Jews expect the entire world to cling to this crazy promise from their "god" even though most Jews today are atheists. Is that crazy or what? Anyway, this is my opinion.
See ya, Pilgrim. Hah!
My understanding has always been that Gehenna was merely a place where the dead went, a holding place if you will. Could you tell me where you found that it is a fiery place of torment. Thank you
The content was good for breaking through common movie concepts of the gladiator, but I found this more than a bit jarring. "Learning that the majority of gladiators weren’t actually slaves, but free men who had volunteered for a slice of glory and winnings, makes gladiator fighting seem all the more bizarre and barbaric. Why choose a blood battle over traditional forms of trade and commerce?" Trade is barbarism that can't see its own damage. The reason is that men have an inborn desire to triumph over one another, and some are willing to do that "to the death". This is the real human species.
Finding a ramp means nothing unless it is determined how to move "limestone and granite blocks, each weighing an average of 2.3 metric tons." This is just used by archaeo's because it goes along with their predetermined belief system.
"Although many of us now associate hell with Christianity, the idea of an afterlife existed much earlier."
This is factually incorrect. Christianity is, to Christians, and the first believers who were Jewish of course, the outcome of the Jewish belief in a Messiah. Many Jews believed and converted non-Jews but other Jews did not believe Jesus was the Messiah.
In the Old Testament, Gehenna is a fiery place of torment. There are references to this in the OT that are chronologically earlier than Enoch. I mean, c'mon. Jewish culture did have a belief in Hell during the post-exilic period when Enoch was written.
Scientists being wrong...who'd have thought such a thing possible... ? :)
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