Jerusalem, City of Venus
Oct 7, 2020 5:09:10 GMT
Post by Admin on Oct 7, 2020 5:09:10 GMT
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The Sumero-Akkadian name for Jerusalem, uru-salim, is sometimes etymologised to mean "foundation of [or: by] the god Shalim": from West Semitic " yrw ", ‘to found, to lay a cornerstone’, and Shalim, the Canaanite god of the setting sun and the nether world, as well as of health and perfection
This would give us 2 possible etymologies
1. " yrw + shalim "
2. " uru + shalim "
Shalim (Šalām, Shalem, Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎍𐎎, romanized: ŠLM) was a god in Canaanite religion, mentioned in inscriptions found in Ugarit (Ras Shamra) in Syria. William F. Albright identified Shalim as the god of dusk and Shahar as god of the dawn. In the Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, Shalim is also identified as the deity representing Venus or the "Evening Star" and Shahar the "Morning Star"
Ugaritic literature on mythology portrays Shalim and Shahar as the offspring of the god El
His name derives from the triconsonantal Semitic root Š-L-M ("whole, safe, sound, peace")
The name "Shalem", whether as a town or a deity, is derived from the same root Š-L-M as the word "shalom", meaning peace, so that the common interpretation of the name is now " The City of Peace " or " Abode of Peace ", indicating a sanctuary
( Cf Gog and Magog thread )
In Genesis Rabbah 56:10, the name is interpreted as a combination of yir'eh, " He will see [to it] " and Shalem, the city of King Melchizedek (based on Genesis 14:18). A similar theory is offered by Philo in his discussion of the term " God's city "
Other midrashim say that Jerusalem means " City of Peace "
Now one thing I will point out here is that while the god Shalem is described as male, the Biblical city of Jerusalem is described as female, as are the names of all towns in Hebrew. The town itself however, is also identified as being feminine, so aside from Hebrew grammar, there's an interesting hermeneutical juxtaposition to the male deity associated with the planet Venus
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I guess the next thing we can do is break down the name in cuneiform
The name of the deity representing Venus is from the Semitic root Š-L-M ("whole, safe, sound, peace")
In Sumerian, the word " peace " is " inimdug " and in Akkadian it's " salīmu "
Here is the cuneiform
In cuneiform texts of Sumerian, Akkadian and Hittite languages, many nouns are preceded or followed by a Sumerian word acting as a determinative; this specifies that the associated word belongs to a particular semantic group.
These determinatives are not pronounced aloud as the script is read, they are like a trademark symbol™
Here's the list of cuneiform determinatives, I've boxed the determinative for " city " in red
This is the " Uru " part in the name of " Urushalim "
Note that in Sumerian this sign is also pronounced as " iri " and that in Akkadian it's " ālu "
Here is the the cuneiform for the word " peace ", in Sumerian it's " inimdug " and in Akkadian it is " salīmu "
Now given that " uru " is a determinative, it's not normally read aloud with the rest of the text, so it may be possible that instead of " urushalim " meaning " city of peace ", it may have originally read more properly as " (City of) peace "
In any event, the phonetic origin of the name " Jerusalem " can be seen in the Akkadian:
Now one should ask, does the name directly refer to Venus, or does it not ?
In the New Testament, Revelation 22:16, you have the character of Jesus claiming " I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star "
So is Jesus claiming to be Venus, or is he claiming to be Jerusalem ?
In my opinion, we need to next look to the Jaffa gate into Old Jerusalem city
Jaffa Gate (Hebrew: שער יפו, romanized: Sha'ar Yafo; Arabic: باب الخليل, romanized: Bāb al-Khalīl, "Hebron Gate") is one of the seven main open gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It's one of the city's six original gates built by order of Suleiman the Magnificent in the 1600's
Jaffa Gate location:
What makes Jaffa gate the object of my attention ?
The answer is the seal over the gate
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www.baslibrary.org/biblical-archaeology-review/39/6/18
Biblical Archaeology Review 39:6, November/December 2013
Strata: Pentagrams in Judea
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Isolated pentagrams have been found in Israel, in layers dating to 4000 B.C.
The more mathematical Pythagoreans called the pentagram, ύγιεια (Hygieia) ("health;" also the Greek goddess of health, Hygieia), and saw in the pentagram a mathematical perfection which would later come to be known as the Golden ratio
The Pythagoreans, named so after Pythagoras, circa 580-500, a mathematician who encouraged his followers to seek out truth and knowledge, were driven underground, and used the pentagram to identify themselves to each other, signing letters and communications with it. During this time, the pentagram represented the five points of a human being: Two feet, two hands, and one head
The ancient Pythagorean pentagram was drawn with two points up and represented the doctrine of Pentemychos. Pentemychos means "five recesses" or "five chambers," also known as the pentagonas—the five-angle, and was the title of a work written by Pythagoras's teacher and friend, Pherecydes of Syros
Modern Satanists use a pentagram with two points up, often inscribed in a double circle, with the head of a goat inside the pentagram. This is referred to as the Sigil of Baphomet (Greek, baphe and metis, meaning "absorption of knowledge"). The Pythagorean Greek letters are most often replaced by the Hebrew letters, לויתן forming the name Leviathan. Less esoteric LaVeyan Satanists use it as a sign of rebellion or religious identification, the three downward points symbolizing rejection of the holy Trinity
devil = a goat
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Connections between the pentagram and Christianity are many. It adorned jewelry, amulets, and battle attire of early Christians, especially before the cross was introduced. This was not only because the pentagram was associated with the five wounds of Christ, but also because it could be drawn in a single stroke, through one continuous movement of a pen, representing beginning and end (Alpha and Omega) as one.
Some also theorize that the pentagram was an expression of an early, secret Gnostic heresy, found hidden here and there throughout Christianity's history, a symbol of Isis/Venus as the "secret goddess," or female principle. This symbolism commonly shows up in the Arthurian Grail romances, which many see as Gnostic and in kabbalistic teachings disguised as knightly quests and their tales.For example, a pentagram appears on the shield of Sir Gawain in the fourteenth century poem, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
The pentagram was embodied as a symbol of this feminine principle by the five petaled rose, found in many gothic cathedral ornamentations—they are truly subtle, not quite secret pentagrams
cf the Rosette of the Sumerians
Possibly due to this, and to misinterpretation of symbols used by ceremonial magicians, the pentagram later became associated with Satanism and subsequently rejected by most of Christianity sometime in the twentieth century.
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Many people, when they hear the word " pentagram ", ..they tend to associate the symbol with things like this
And I totally get it
After all, the pentagram is the symbol of evil pagan Satan worshipping demonic Luciferian antichrist devil something something
Right ?
It's very offensive because of what it represents, so people use it to provoke or offend others, ( known as " edgelording " )
Let's fact check all this
You have to admit, it would be rather amusing if all these edgy people running around with pentagrams and 666 tattoos were adorning themselves with symbols and numbers that represent things that were unrelated or even contrary to their personal views on religion and " God "
In other words, they wear things on their bodies to be " eeeeeevilll ", but those symbols and that number represent the opposite of that, and their perception of those symbols and number as " evil " aren't based on knowing the truth, but rather the ignorance taught by the religious people themselves
So,.. edgelords would only be offending people who are as ignorant as they are, and all those arrogant religious people peddling nonsense, ....well, that's just one big boat of fools
After all, the pentagram is the symbol of evil pagan Satan worshipping demonic Luciferian antichrist devil something something
Right ?
It's very offensive because of what it represents, so people use it to provoke or offend others, ( known as " edgelording " )
Let's fact check all this
You have to admit, it would be rather amusing if all these edgy people running around with pentagrams and 666 tattoos were adorning themselves with symbols and numbers that represent things that were unrelated or even contrary to their personal views on religion and " God "
In other words, they wear things on their bodies to be " eeeeeevilll ", but those symbols and that number represent the opposite of that, and their perception of those symbols and number as " evil " aren't based on knowing the truth, but rather the ignorance taught by the religious people themselves
So,.. edgelords would only be offending people who are as ignorant as they are, and all those arrogant religious people peddling nonsense, ....well, that's just one big boat of fools
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Let's start with the name " Jerusalem "
You may not have known this, but the city has many names. Jewish literature traditionally teaches 70 names, some authors place the number upwards of 100
Jerusalem is called Yerushalayim (Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם), however this is a derivation of a much older name, recorded as early as the Middle Bronze Age, 1500–1200 BC
A city called Ꜣwšꜣmm in the Execration texts of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt (c. 19th century BCE) and typically reconstructed as (U)Rušalim is sometimes identified as Jerusalem. Nadav Na'aman proposed that the name should instead by understood as r'š (head) + rmm (exalted), meaning 'the exalted head', and so not referring to Jerusalem, but Na'aman withdrew this objection in 2023
( Cf thread on breakdown of Bereshit )
Jerusalem is called either Urusalim (URU ú-ru-sa-lim) or Urušalim (URU ú-ru-ša10-lim) in the Amarna letters of Abdi-Heba (1330s BC)
The Amarna letters are diplomatic correspondence between the Egyptian administration and its representatives in Canaan and Amurru, or neighboring kingdom leaders, during the New Kingdom, spanning a period of no more than thirty years between c. 1360–1332 BC
The letters were found in Upper Egypt at el-Amarna, the modern name for the ancient Egyptian capital of Akhetaten, founded by pharaoh Akhenaten (1350s–1330s BC) during the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
The Amarna letters are unusual in Egyptological research, because they are written not in the language of ancient Egypt, but in cuneiform, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia. Most are in a variety of Akkadian sometimes characterized as a mixed language known as Canaanite-Akkadian
Amarna letter EA 286, below, titled: "A Throne Granted, Not Inherited," is a tall, finely-inscribed clay tablet letter, approximately 8 in tall, and 3.5 in wide, from Abdi-Heba the mayor/ruler of Jerusalem, of the mid 14th century BC Amarna letters. The scribe of his six letters to Egypt were penned by the "Jerusalem scribe"
You may not have known this, but the city has many names. Jewish literature traditionally teaches 70 names, some authors place the number upwards of 100
Jerusalem is called Yerushalayim (Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם), however this is a derivation of a much older name, recorded as early as the Middle Bronze Age, 1500–1200 BC
A city called Ꜣwšꜣmm in the Execration texts of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt (c. 19th century BCE) and typically reconstructed as (U)Rušalim is sometimes identified as Jerusalem. Nadav Na'aman proposed that the name should instead by understood as r'š (head) + rmm (exalted), meaning 'the exalted head', and so not referring to Jerusalem, but Na'aman withdrew this objection in 2023
( Cf thread on breakdown of Bereshit )
Jerusalem is called either Urusalim (URU ú-ru-sa-lim) or Urušalim (URU ú-ru-ša10-lim) in the Amarna letters of Abdi-Heba (1330s BC)
The Amarna letters are diplomatic correspondence between the Egyptian administration and its representatives in Canaan and Amurru, or neighboring kingdom leaders, during the New Kingdom, spanning a period of no more than thirty years between c. 1360–1332 BC
The letters were found in Upper Egypt at el-Amarna, the modern name for the ancient Egyptian capital of Akhetaten, founded by pharaoh Akhenaten (1350s–1330s BC) during the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
The Amarna letters are unusual in Egyptological research, because they are written not in the language of ancient Egypt, but in cuneiform, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia. Most are in a variety of Akkadian sometimes characterized as a mixed language known as Canaanite-Akkadian
Amarna letter EA 286, below, titled: "A Throne Granted, Not Inherited," is a tall, finely-inscribed clay tablet letter, approximately 8 in tall, and 3.5 in wide, from Abdi-Heba the mayor/ruler of Jerusalem, of the mid 14th century BC Amarna letters. The scribe of his six letters to Egypt were penned by the "Jerusalem scribe"
The Sumero-Akkadian name for Jerusalem, uru-salim, is sometimes etymologised to mean "foundation of [or: by] the god Shalim": from West Semitic " yrw ", ‘to found, to lay a cornerstone’, and Shalim, the Canaanite god of the setting sun and the nether world, as well as of health and perfection
This would give us 2 possible etymologies
1. " yrw + shalim "
2. " uru + shalim "
Shalim (Šalām, Shalem, Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎍𐎎, romanized: ŠLM) was a god in Canaanite religion, mentioned in inscriptions found in Ugarit (Ras Shamra) in Syria. William F. Albright identified Shalim as the god of dusk and Shahar as god of the dawn. In the Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, Shalim is also identified as the deity representing Venus or the "Evening Star" and Shahar the "Morning Star"
Ugaritic literature on mythology portrays Shalim and Shahar as the offspring of the god El
His name derives from the triconsonantal Semitic root Š-L-M ("whole, safe, sound, peace")
The name "Shalem", whether as a town or a deity, is derived from the same root Š-L-M as the word "shalom", meaning peace, so that the common interpretation of the name is now " The City of Peace " or " Abode of Peace ", indicating a sanctuary
( Cf Gog and Magog thread )
In Genesis Rabbah 56:10, the name is interpreted as a combination of yir'eh, " He will see [to it] " and Shalem, the city of King Melchizedek (based on Genesis 14:18). A similar theory is offered by Philo in his discussion of the term " God's city "
Other midrashim say that Jerusalem means " City of Peace "
Now one thing I will point out here is that while the god Shalem is described as male, the Biblical city of Jerusalem is described as female, as are the names of all towns in Hebrew. The town itself however, is also identified as being feminine, so aside from Hebrew grammar, there's an interesting hermeneutical juxtaposition to the male deity associated with the planet Venus
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Cuneiform Origins of the Name
I guess the next thing we can do is break down the name in cuneiform
The name of the deity representing Venus is from the Semitic root Š-L-M ("whole, safe, sound, peace")
In Sumerian, the word " peace " is " inimdug " and in Akkadian it's " salīmu "
Here is the cuneiform
In cuneiform texts of Sumerian, Akkadian and Hittite languages, many nouns are preceded or followed by a Sumerian word acting as a determinative; this specifies that the associated word belongs to a particular semantic group.
These determinatives are not pronounced aloud as the script is read, they are like a trademark symbol™
Here's the list of cuneiform determinatives, I've boxed the determinative for " city " in red
This is the " Uru " part in the name of " Urushalim "
Note that in Sumerian this sign is also pronounced as " iri " and that in Akkadian it's " ālu "
Here is the the cuneiform for the word " peace ", in Sumerian it's " inimdug " and in Akkadian it is " salīmu "
Now given that " uru " is a determinative, it's not normally read aloud with the rest of the text, so it may be possible that instead of " urushalim " meaning " city of peace ", it may have originally read more properly as " (City of) peace "
In any event, the phonetic origin of the name " Jerusalem " can be seen in the Akkadian:
Now one should ask, does the name directly refer to Venus, or does it not ?
In the New Testament, Revelation 22:16, you have the character of Jesus claiming " I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star "
So is Jesus claiming to be Venus, or is he claiming to be Jerusalem ?
In my opinion, we need to next look to the Jaffa gate into Old Jerusalem city
Jaffa Gate (Hebrew: שער יפו, romanized: Sha'ar Yafo; Arabic: باب الخليل, romanized: Bāb al-Khalīl, "Hebron Gate") is one of the seven main open gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It's one of the city's six original gates built by order of Suleiman the Magnificent in the 1600's
Jaffa Gate location:
What makes Jaffa gate the object of my attention ?
The answer is the seal over the gate
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www.baslibrary.org/biblical-archaeology-review/39/6/18
Biblical Archaeology Review 39:6, November/December 2013
Strata: Pentagrams in Judea
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A lot of modern fundamentalist eisegesis is based on ignorance of history, and naturally the pentagram has gotten a lot of bad press, mainly for the reason it was adopted for use by occultists circa the 1500's ( De Occulta Philosophia libri III - Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, as an example )
The pentagram was actually the old city seal for Jerusalem. From around 300-150 BCE the pentagram stood as the symbol of Jerusalem, marked by the 5 Hebrew letters ירשלם spelling its name
The pentagram was actually the old city seal for Jerusalem. From around 300-150 BCE the pentagram stood as the symbol of Jerusalem, marked by the 5 Hebrew letters ירשלם spelling its name
In a recent study, Efrat Bocher and Oded Lipschits of Tel Aviv University identified six different types of such pentagram seal impressions on pottery handles, all with a pentagram and the five letters of Jerusalem between the points
In Jewish tradition, the Pentagram is said to represent Justice, mercy, and wisdom ( source ? )
The pentagram was common on coins and jewelry ( Greek, Roman, etc )
In Jewish tradition, the Pentagram is said to represent Justice, mercy, and wisdom ( source ? )
The pentagram was common on coins and jewelry ( Greek, Roman, etc )
In early Christianity, it was associated with the five wounds of Christ
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Isolated pentagrams have been found in Israel, in layers dating to 4000 B.C.
The more mathematical Pythagoreans called the pentagram, ύγιεια (Hygieia) ("health;" also the Greek goddess of health, Hygieia), and saw in the pentagram a mathematical perfection which would later come to be known as the Golden ratio
The Pythagoreans, named so after Pythagoras, circa 580-500, a mathematician who encouraged his followers to seek out truth and knowledge, were driven underground, and used the pentagram to identify themselves to each other, signing letters and communications with it. During this time, the pentagram represented the five points of a human being: Two feet, two hands, and one head
The ancient Pythagorean pentagram was drawn with two points up and represented the doctrine of Pentemychos. Pentemychos means "five recesses" or "five chambers," also known as the pentagonas—the five-angle, and was the title of a work written by Pythagoras's teacher and friend, Pherecydes of Syros
Modern Satanists use a pentagram with two points up, often inscribed in a double circle, with the head of a goat inside the pentagram. This is referred to as the Sigil of Baphomet (Greek, baphe and metis, meaning "absorption of knowledge"). The Pythagorean Greek letters are most often replaced by the Hebrew letters, לויתן forming the name Leviathan. Less esoteric LaVeyan Satanists use it as a sign of rebellion or religious identification, the three downward points symbolizing rejection of the holy Trinity
devil = a goat
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Connections between the pentagram and Christianity are many. It adorned jewelry, amulets, and battle attire of early Christians, especially before the cross was introduced. This was not only because the pentagram was associated with the five wounds of Christ, but also because it could be drawn in a single stroke, through one continuous movement of a pen, representing beginning and end (Alpha and Omega) as one.
Some also theorize that the pentagram was an expression of an early, secret Gnostic heresy, found hidden here and there throughout Christianity's history, a symbol of Isis/Venus as the "secret goddess," or female principle. This symbolism commonly shows up in the Arthurian Grail romances, which many see as Gnostic and in kabbalistic teachings disguised as knightly quests and their tales.For example, a pentagram appears on the shield of Sir Gawain in the fourteenth century poem, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
The pentagram was embodied as a symbol of this feminine principle by the five petaled rose, found in many gothic cathedral ornamentations—they are truly subtle, not quite secret pentagrams
cf the Rosette of the Sumerians
Possibly due to this, and to misinterpretation of symbols used by ceremonial magicians, the pentagram later became associated with Satanism and subsequently rejected by most of Christianity sometime in the twentieth century.
