Posted on 08/28/2009 6:52:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Although the majority of its superb intact monuments now sit in Berlin's Pergamon Museum, enough remains of the acropolis for the visitor to sense the former greatness of the city that once rivaled Alexandria, Ephesus and Antioch in culture and commerce, and whose scientific advancements in the field of medicine resonate through the corridors of today's medical treatment facilities. Juxtaposed sharply against this image of enlightened learning is that of "Satan's Throne," as described by the prophet John of Patmos (Revelation 2:12-13), which some scholars interpret as referring to the Great Altar of Pergamon, one of the most magnificent surviving structures from the Greco-Roman world...
Pergamon rose to prominence during the years of the Greek empire's division following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. His short-lived empire was partitioned among his generals, with General Lysimachus inheriting the then-settlement of Pergamon and its wealth. Due largely to its strategic position along land and sea trading routes and in part to the wealth of the Attalid kings who ruled the kingdom, the city enjoyed centuries of prosperity that continued when it passed peacefullly to Rome's control in 133 B.C. From that point on, Pergamon's fate was inextricably linked to that of Rome, and it rose and fell in tandem with the great Roman Empire.
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Reptile balls
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Yeah, wonder where they got that idea? ;’)
Probably the best acoustics of any amphitheater!
Snakes, the symbol for Aesklepios, ornament a marble altar. In the ancient world, snakes symbolized healing and life-renewal. The caduceus was adopted as a symbol of the medical profession because of its similarity with the serpent entwined staff of Aesklepios. IIRC, there is more than one example in situ.
Ha ha! Good one. Even der fuhrer looks really wee-weed at being compared to zer0.
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Caduceus... oh yeah... he was the hero and main character of the Codessey.
The one time I’m being s-e-r-i-o-u-s ...you’re goofing around.
OK ..I’m not telling you about what happened to me in the underground tunnel at Pergamon. So there!
Dammit. The *one time* I’m goofing around...
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This book and website make the case "amphibian" stone images are an artistic mode for juxtaposing pre-Flood approaches to God with the world Noah tried to make after the Flood which was corrupted by theology carried over by the wives of Noah's children. It's non-fiction but it's so wild that it reads like a good fiction book. |
Sounds like it parallels the Book of Enoch and the Epic of Gilgamesh.
I, for one, welcome our new Amphibian overlords.
Two examples:
Serpent-god Mesopotamia.
Etruscan Mural. Typhon.
Do you remember that?
I still adhere to that idea, BTW!
Satan is Lucifer is Venus. What did Venus do to deserve a bad reputation?
excerpt:
Typhon "out-topped all the mountains, and his head often brushed the stars. One of his hands reached out to the west and the other to the east, and from them projected a hundred dragons' heads. From the thighs downward he had huge coils of vipers which ... emitted a long hissing. ... His body was all winged ... and fire flashed from his eyes. Such and so great was Typhon when, hurling kindled rocks, he made for the very heaven with hissing and shouts, spouting a great jet of fire from his mouth." To the sky of Egypt Zeus pursued Typhon "rushing at heaven." "Zeus pelted Typhon at a distance with thunderbolts, and at close quarters struck him down with an adamantine sickle, and as he fled pursued him closely as far as Mount Casius, which overhands Syria. There, seeing the monster sore wounded, he grappled with him. But Typhon twined about him and gripped him in his coils. ..." " Having recovered his strength Zeus suddenly from heaven riding in a chariot of winged horses, pelted Typhon with thunderbolts. ... So being again pursued he [Typhon] came to Thrace and in fighting at Mount Haemus he heaved whole mountains ... a stream of blood gushed out on the mountain, and they say that from that circumstance the mountain was called Haemus [bloody]. And when he started to flee through the Sicilian sea, Zeus cast Mount Etna in Sicily upon him. That is a huge mountain, from which down to this day they say that blasts of fire issue from the thunderbolts that were thrown."
Zeus and Typhon
China: Nuwa and Fuxi.
What have the arabs got? Nothing they didn't plagiarize - other than the worship of stones that fell from the sky.
LOL...possibly nothing...but don't ask most red-blooded men (myself included) to agree with that opinion!!!
Thanks!
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