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To: NorthMountain; CynicalBear

Well, EB and all such publications are nwo things.

I was just pointing out how “nwo” historians acknowledge the Egyptian ones had sun god inscriptions on them.


70 posted on 02/27/2015 8:55:07 AM PST by PieterCasparzen (Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.)
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To: PieterCasparzen
And yet ...

"Baal" was not a "sun god", nor an Egyptian "god' of any sort, and the word "obelisk" is of Greek origin having nothing to do with the Canaanite "god" called "baal", and obelisks were erected for all sorts of purposes.

If folks wish to wallow in historically inaccurate garbage, and cite highly educated kooks as their sources, that's ultimately their business. They should expect to be challenged, though.

I think this has been beaten to death ... you may carry on without me.

71 posted on 02/27/2015 9:08:37 AM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: PieterCasparzen; NorthMountain
It only takes a cursory study of the history of the obelisk to know the origin.

Some interesting tidbits taken from here.

"The obelisk symbolized the sun god Ra, and during the brief religious reformation of Akhenaten was said to be a petrified ray of the Aten, the sundisk. It was also thought that the god existed within the structure."

"The Ancient Romans were strongly influenced by the obelisk form, to the extent that there are now more than twice as many obelisks standing in Rome as remain in Egypt. All fell after the Roman period except for the Vatican obelisk and were re-erected in different locations."

"Rome is the obelisk capital of the world. The most well-known is probably the 25 metres (82 ft), 331-ton obelisk at Saint Peter's Square in Rome.[7] The obelisk had stood since AD 37 on its site on the wall of the Circus of Nero, flanking St Peter's Basilica:"

72 posted on 02/27/2015 9:18:01 AM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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