Rome is an international City.
The Vatican isn't the only Sovereign entity in the town.
there were four oblisks removed from a place in Egypt. One went to London, one to Rome (long long ago I believe) and one went to NYC (it's in Central Park, and it ought to be returned to Egypt and put back).
Rome has very many oblisks. Some are very very old. Others not so much. Recently a person who does 'walk throughs' of historical sites did a compilation of Oblisks in Rome. He brings you to all of the various one.
fun to watch.
Oblisks are sundials. With them people are able to immediately tell what time of day it is (during sunlight and no overcast).
The dual pillars, with crowns on top, that seems to be more about who 'wears the purple'.
I think maybe it's about the pillars of Hercules.
and some of the ancient rulers used to larp about being either descended from Hercules (and Cerces) or being the reincarnated Hercules.
A column with a single crown is also a very specific coat of arms for a particular well known Roman family (who claim ancient lineage).
Anyway, my point: you're fetish for Oblisks seems to ignore the context of Oblisks.
the 'belly button' in the Curia Julia
you leave out the importance of medicine and access to cures.
PS: Rome has more than Just Italy and The Vatican there as sovereign entities.
And the Knights named after another country and not based in that country, but in Rome (as a sovereign entity)
the forth is in Paris. There was a qaudriture of Obelisks in Egypt at an ancient temple pyramid complex. All four were removed. One to Rome. One to Paris. One to London. One to Central Park East (technically Manhattan).
Obelisks are sundials. They were used for generations to tell the time during daylight hours, or at night too if you know astronomy.
(as a backdrop).
It might be (and this is a personal theory of mine) that the gold crowns at the top of the obelisks that were configured as a quadriture were charged up to create a lightning effect (arc) between them. This is a conjecture without sauce.
my point: obelisks are ordinary, and cool, and well enjoyed. Stop making them seem creepy.
A guy in California made an obelisk and intentionally had it built to look like it was struck by lightning. It wasn't. This is in the High Sierra I think at Donner pass.
I prayed to Jesus Christ for insight and new information and I started doing 'walk through' videos, pausing and reading the stuff that is there, looking for old inscriptions, and then following those leads, on and on and on.
and last summer when we had a picture of a Cheif Justice at the supreme court in Malta, I took a virtual trip there, watched video walk through after video walk through.
I also studied the ancient architecture and learned about the ancient city.
I read some inscriptions and got the name of a hero honored in Rome. I followed that families name (which isn't blurted and bantied).
Next I learned more and more about Malta and said 'it's all right there they have no shame for their story. this 'oh it's Malta' thing is all wrong.
And next I got to Rome again and a church there for a group of Knights and watched their videos (they aren't hiding anything).
They are a soverigien entity, not the Vatican but tied to the Vatican.
So that's it.
A lot of the History is there but it's not well advertised because the grudges of the Slaver nations to the East demand that the Westerners not put it on display because the iconoclasts will go and bust it all up and try to destroy the memories of the heroes of the West.
And so there is a lot of History that you will only get if you do a deep read of old monuments.
I was sitting here doing this a while back and turned by head to look out the window and there was one of these on a pine tree out in the back and it was staring at me through my window watching me. I took a group of pics and then it flew away. I haven't seen it since.
OK, this is 'Carson Pass' so, it's not Donner pass. But that's not too far from there. But it is the High Sierra.
there was a live feed from the CSPAN that showed the people tromping through the area with the ropes inside the capitol.
at some point it went 'off' but it did not end. I had it on and had gone to do dishes or something and then heard the sound and it was on again but it was outside and someone a camera through the trees. I did my screen cap bit.
and this was supposedly when the media was saying it was a riot. And I was seeing 'guy on skateboard' guy sitting down and reading. Guys with flags. Everything was looking like a Bread and Puppet scene from like 1997 or so, and it was all just a gathering like you see sometimes (Gathering Together).I must have tapped out about 100 screen shots of this, none of which have I posted here.
no riot.
no one in distress. No one 'running away'
later I was able to watch it again from the beginning and I tapped out a series of images for the whole time it was in the velvet rope area.
I may have taken the other screen captures then too. I have looked for the video again. I didn't find it.
sometimes it almost seems as though we can't trust that these things are real.
the movies not over.
meanwhile, on the inside . . .
the faces of the people show up and if they are just wondering through not touching and desturbing stuff, since the Capitol is 'the people's ' building, can they really be charged with tresspassing? And if not then the ones who kept them out in the first place? can those be charged with 'political suppression'?
the building is supposed to be open to the public.
the scamdemic is why it isn't. And that seems a bit of a fraud by now.
she has a 1 year old!