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To: CynicalBear

Yes.

She isn’t credible.

That’s exactly what I’m saying.

I have met (and had the misfortune to work with) entirely too many degreed or titled kooks, buffoons, and idiots to be particularly impressed with a Who’s Who entry or a piece of sheepskin.

Her proposed etymology is at odds with every other, is derived from a dodgy source (Masonic mythology), and has all the earmarks of a false cognate.

But you choose to believe her ... why I cannot imagine.


64 posted on 02/25/2015 6:01:41 AM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: NorthMountain; CynicalBear
Hmmm... I found this...

Excerpt from Encyclopaedia Brittanica...

"obelisk, tapered monolithic pillar, originally erected in pairs at the entrances of ancient Egyptian temples. The Egyptian obelisk was carved from a single piece of stone, usually red granite from the quarries at Aswān. It was designed to be wider at its square or rectangular base than at its pyramidal top, which was often covered with an alloy of gold and silver called electrum. All four sides of the obelisk’s shaft are embellished with hieroglyphs that characteristically include religious dedications, usually to the sun god, and commemorations of the rulers. "
...
"Other peoples, including the Phoenicians and the Canaanites, produced obelisks after Egyptian models, although not generally carved from a single block of stone."

Read more at the link:

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/423656/obelisk

Of course, this does not address Canaanite recognition of sun god in particular, whether their obelisks had sun god symbols on them, etc.
68 posted on 02/26/2015 9:29:02 PM PST by PieterCasparzen (Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.)
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