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- Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:23 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Pillars of Hercules
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Re: Pillars of Hercules
Melicertes on dolphin 161-180 A.D. https://ancientcoinage.org/uploads/3/4/3/4/34340153/1495058.jpg Melicertes (Palaemon) https://www.theoi.com/image/img_palaimon.jpg Phoenicia, Tyre. Circa 430 BC (Dolphin & Screech Owl with a crook and flail) https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/phoenicia/tyre...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:51 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Pillars of Hercules
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Re: Pillars of Hercules
Not all Hydras have seven heads, the one here as nine heads.
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Pillars of Hercules
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Re: Pillars of Hercules
There is a large scarab on the left with large wings on that seal. κάνθαρος (kántharos) dung-beetle, scarab. In latter Greek written σκάνθαρος (skántharos) > σκάνθα >σκάναθ > σκάναβ >σκάλαβ > σκάραβος "Scarab" cf. κάραβος (kárabos). The Arabic is kunfusa (خنفساء) I believe the ultimate roo...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 1:11 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Pillars of Hercules
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Re: Pillars of Hercules
In Strabo 3.5.5 it states "But those eight-cubit bronze pillars" which seem short to be pillars. (χαλκᾶς ὀκταπήχεις) cf. 1 Kings 7:15 He cast two bronze pillars, each eighteen cubits Its suspect then that Strabo text originally said "two eighteen cubit pillars" and due to copyist...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 3:49 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Pillars of Hercules
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Re: Pillars of Hercules
In Plato, Critias 113 Gadeirus Eumelos is son of Cleito (Κλειτὼ) and twin brother of Atlas and is said to be the namesake of Gadeira. Cleito ( Κλειτὼ ) means קרית "renowned" which may also be the קרת in Melqart and Carthage and the κλῆς in Herakles. This Gadeirus Eumelos might be the same ...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 3:12 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Pillars of Hercules
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Pillars of Hercules
Herodotus 2.44 I took ship for Tyre in Phoenicia, where I had learned by inquiry that there was a holy temple of Heracles. There I saw it, richly equipped with many other offerings, besides two pillars (στῆλαι δύο) , one of refined gold, one of emerald. two worships of Heracles , sacrificing to one...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:31 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: The Messiah is a Wall?
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Re: The Messiah is a Wall?
Pillars of Hercules are called Στῆλαι Ἡρακλήϊαι and corresponds to צלעות םלקרות στήλη block of stone used as a prop or buttress to a wall (LSJ) Ezekiel 41:5 קיר בית τεῖχος οἴκου "wall of the temple" Ezekiel 41:6 צלעות בקיר στῆλαι ἐπὶ οἴκῳ "supports towards the walls" In this cont...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: The Messiah is a Wall?
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Re: The Messiah is a Wall?
Apollōniōn is an Elean month (September or August) that might be the כסלו (Kislav) in Nehemiah 1:1, being a dialectic variation. The wall was completed on the 25th (Nehemiah 6:15) and Hannukah is anachronistically mentioned in Nehemiah 12:27 that is celebrated on the 25th of December. Wall of stones...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:24 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: The Messiah is a Wall?
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The Messiah is a Wall?
Nehemiah 6:15
The wall (חומה) was finished on the 25th (month) of Apollo (אלול)
Nehemiah 4:3 specifies חומת אבנים "wall of stones" which identifies the word חומה with αἱμασιή wall of dry stones.
The wall (חומה) was finished on the 25th (month) of Apollo (אלול)
Nehemiah 4:3 specifies חומת אבנים "wall of stones" which identifies the word חומה with αἱμασιή wall of dry stones.
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:38 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: touch-stone, black-stone?
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touch-stone, black-stone?
Plato, Gorgias 486d If my soul had happened to be made of gold, Callicles, do you not think I should have been delighted to find one of those stones with which they test gold , and the best one; which, if I applied it, and it confirmed to me that my soul had been properly tended, would give me full...