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Saturday 19 September 2020

Kushner And The Middle East

And now I'm going to say something that could raise both some ire as well as some contention.

The Hammurabi Laws -
there's Hammurabi there on the left,
and 'god' right there giving him
the Laws.
A few hundred years before Moses.

If God spoke to Moses (maybe Circa BC 1500+) on some mountain somewhere, and gave Moses 'the Laws,' then he - God - must have plagiarized these from King Hammurabi (Circa BC 1800-ish) and failed to disclose to Moses that another god had earlier on handed some 'Laws' to a king or a leader of a peoples in the Middle East, namely to said King Hammurabi. In fact, prior to Hammurabi's Code, there had been an earlier set of Laws, in fact the first ones that are known to archaeology (if you forget that there is an entire other tradition in another part of the world that is at least as complex, namely, that of Dwaraka in India, that concerns an even far earlier time still...), which are called the Laws of Ur-Nammu.

Hammurabi claimed to have been personally given his laws by the gods, or a god.

And if we shift focus now a little to the standard Islamic narrative, to consider the misleading ideas there, there never were any inscriptions prior to the Abbasids whatsoever, showing a direction towards which to pray, other than towards Petra, and not Mecca.

However, by the time of the Abbasids, when this empire had shifted the key regional center of the silk road trade from Petra to Mecca in the Hijaz, then and only then does evidence show that the qibla direction is now towards Mecca.

Meanwhile, there are traditional Hebrew rabbinical writings to the effect that their Abraham was from Edessa in Turkey, back in ancient history also called 'Ur.'

Modern people, doing what
modern people do. They also have tablets -
Apple tablets. God, there's even 'apples!' lol

The modern common tradition is that the Abraham of the Bible is said, in the Bible, to have come from 'Ur of the Chaldees' (which is in Iraq, or ancient Babylon more or less, and not Turkey). In fact the Ptolemy II Old Testament does not say 'Ur' of the Chaldees, it says 'the LAND of the Chaldees. And that is because 'Ur' is a word simply which means 'land,' or 'the land' - as in a settlement, or civilized place. Abraham came from Babylon.

The even earlier civilization in Uruk (before 'Ur'), the so-called Ubaid Period civilization (BC 6500 - BC 3800), is where we get all of those reptilian statues of people or 'gods,' or so some archaeologists and social anthropologists say - that you see in television shows such as 'Ancient god-only-knows-whatever-hot-button-flavor-of-the-season-name...'

The so-called 'translation' of the Amenhotep pyramidion, is another monument to the fact that human beings will say anything and repeat anything, just because they have a mouth and they can make some noise with it. And there are other pyramidions too, notably the pyramidion of Amenemhat III.

Pyramidion - capstone of the Pyramid.

People who try and claim to have translated the inscriptions have absolutely no idea what those inscriptions say or mean.

The inscriptions describe certain relationships of certain particular things, although they do also memorialize two names or titles.

The standard modern narrative of what these inscriptions do say, goes something like this: 'May the face of the king of Upper and Lower Egypt be opened so that he may see the Lord of the Horizon (Horus), and that when he (Horus) crosses the sky, and the son of Ra, and the two ladies... ...and blah blah blah;' all rubbish.

Moses and God: wrong.

Mecca and God: wrong.

Abraham from where: wrong.

The Pharaoh and God: wrong.

Jews: wrong.

Muslims: wrong.

Christians: also wrong.

Ancient 'geopolitics' - standard modern narrative: all wrong.

Today's geopolitics...?

China and Iran, of course, are allies of great self-interest and convenience.

And anyone who thinks we are out of the woods because Jared Kushner has built a little bloc between Saudi Arabia and Israel and Bahrain and the UAE... ...is nuts.

The 'secret' by the way, of all of this, is literally right there on the pyramidion.

You see, original people originally say some 'thing,' or write something, and then other people come along and read it however which-way that they like and it all becomes nonsense after that. And you know what? They establish even Universities to teach the nonsense as well!

And then, whole swathes of people all 'know' the same nonsense, for ever and ever and ever after.

Round and round and round she goes.

You stop when you find something worth your while, though, right...?

3 comments:

  1. At 2.25 meters tall, the Hammurabi stele is quite reminiscent of Kubrick's black monolith - notwithstanding the discrepant proportions (which Kubrick and Clarke would have at 1:4:9).

    I still say we need a new story - but this doesn't mean we should dispose of the messages from the past which have been distorted or errantly interpreted. Those past stories could in fact be the basis of the "new story."

    If it were up to me, the monuments of the past - such as the Egyptian pyramids and the Greek temples - would be refurbished/renovated/made new with fresh stone and cleaned surfaces to make them as they were when they inspired awe.

    I think these times require some awe.

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  2. Okay, maybe not, now that I consider it. LMAO

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