Avalon Train | 3:17
Ed Gerhard - Topic | 812 subscribers | 4,446 views | September 8, 2018
Avalon is a legendary island in Arthurian mythology, often associated with magic, beauty, and a utopian paradise. It is most famously known as the place where King Arthur was taken to recover from his wounds after the Battle of Camlann, and where his sword, Excalibur, was forged. Avalon is depicted as a mystical, otherworldly realm, sometimes linked to the Celtic Otherworld, and is often shrouded in mist, accessible only by certain individuals or through magical means.We live in a very nice neighborhood, indeed "magic, beauty and a utopian paradise... mystical, otherworldly realm."
Auspicious!
(People might 🤔 be sick of my postings, but I need to document, not win a popularity contest.)
Avalon gets even better because
Avalon [אבלון] is
...a place of magic where King Arthur's sword Excalibur was made...
The sword lore involves it being stuck in a stone.
The Hebrew word for stone is even [אבן]. No need to actually know the letters to see and compare the images, that inside of the letters "אבן" is "לו", thus the word Avalon [אבלון] lit. contains "לו" inside a stone.
Happy to draw this out for any interested readers.
The letters lamed-vav ("לו") spells "to him". It also is the numeral 36 (ל"ו), which holds much mystique in the Jewish World because it relates to the first 3 days of Creation (36 hours of light), linking to the 36 Chanukah candles for the 8-day miracle of lights.
Also, the "lamed vavniks" -- the 36 righteous whose existence keeps the world from falling apart:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzadikim_Nistarim
But back to the "to him". I've previously posted about the "missing David" in the Strong's entries. Basically,
Strong's Number H1732 matches the Hebrew דָּוִד (dāviḏ), which occurs 1,075 times in 910 verses in the WLC Hebrew.
https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h1732/kjv/wlc/0-1/
Yet set it just to search the "Old Testament", and being a Hebrew word what difference should it make, yet...
KJV Strong's H1732 matches the Hebrew דָּוִד (dāviḏ).
"H1732" occurs 1,076 times in 911 verses in your custom selection ' in 'The Old Testament'' in the KJV.
https://www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=H1732&t=KJV&csr=1#s=s_primary_0_1
The "missing David" turns up in the [911th] verse where Jonathan told David he'd be noticed for his seat, being empty that is (inside translators' joke?):
1 Samuel 20:18 Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.
"David" is not actually in the verse. The KJV does not italiansize his name there, which is the normal way to tip off the reader that a word in the English is not in the Hebrew text.
In the verse, the Hebrew just says "to him" [לו].
Then Jonathan said to David [לו]..
Italiansize it, because you'll find the missing David no. 1076 outside of the Old Testament.
He's the most famous David in the world, a veritable Renaissance ("reborn") Man of stone:
Data sheet
Author: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Date: 1501 - 1504
Collection: SCULPTURE
Technique: Marble
Dimensions: h. 517 cm
Inventory: Inv. Scult. n. 1076
https://www.galleriaaccademiafirenze.it/en/artworks/david-michelangelo/
Like I always say, the weird is the tell. 👍
(It's a Big Dig after all.)
Avalon Train | 3:17
Ed Gerhard - Topic | 812 subscribers | 4,446 views | September 8, 2018
