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Site 16: Yammouneh, Lebanon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yammoune

“Yammoune is a lake, nature reserve, village and municipality situated 27 kilometres (17 mi) northwest of Baalbek in Baalbek District, Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon. The village has a few hundred inhabitants.”

>> You were brainwashed to believe that the Phoenician City-States are on a narrow coastline and there are none inland. See where Yammouneh is located?

“Ancient Roman temple

There are the ruins of a Roman temple (possibly with phoenician-greek origins) in the village that are included in a grouping of Roman Temples of the Beqaa Valley. It is said to be dedicated to Venus (or possibly also Astarte, before the Roman era in the region). Part of two enclosure walls and the temple foundations remain intact. Many inscriptions, written in Latin were found at the temple site. A few Ancient Greek inscriptions were also found. It is considered likely to be initially very small and of Phoenician origin, but it was greatly enlarged and improved by the Romans.

All that remains of the Roman temple today is a retaining wall of limestone blocks which goes down to the lake level. Beneath are supposed to be subterranean chambers. Presumably dedicated to Venus-Astrate, legend has it that when Typhon made war against the heavens, it was at Yammouneh that Venus changed herself into a fish…A great water cavern west of the temple fills the lake each year, although at other times it may appear almost dry. Luxurious Roman villas used to occupy the area between the cavern and the temple and numerous altars, statues and other elements have been discovered nearby.”

>>See, it was originally a Phoenician temple. Of which deity? We don’t know, but when the Romans came thousands of years later, they recognized this was a site with an ancient Phoenician temple’s ruins on it, so they reconstructed a Roman style temple on top of the Phoenician foundations. How many sites have we already seen so far with this same identical situation? Ans this one is also near a water, like some others we have seen so far.

As for the little story of Venus turning into a fish in that location; I see this as a fable. This is all related to the cult of the Evil Lady/Atargatis which I’ve talked about in this thread. There are many local aspects/forms of her cult and this is one of them. There are many caves and cave systems in Lebanon. The ones of Yammouneh are not out of place. What they were used for is not known? Some say for storage, some say to practice the sacred Prostitution during the Roman times as this site was turned into a temple of the Evil Lady’s cult. There are many possibilities as to what these caves might have been used for. And no, this site was not fully excavated despite a few artifacts, including inscriptions have been found in its vicinity.

“Ernest Renan visited the site and discovered sections of a frieze and parts of pediment attributed to the temple. A partly broken cockle shell with a figure of a goddess with outstretched arms was also found recently during ploughing by a tractor. The ancient name of Yammoune is not known however some have suggested that it was once the location of a Festival of Adonis.”

>> I’m not going to be surprised if we found out for sure this site was turned into the cult of the Evil Couple during Hellenistic and Roman times mostly. It’s always the same names whom excavated these sites, isn’t it?

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>>15429239

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“The temple is situated on a hill, approximately 300 metres (980 ft) from the main spring in the area, the Naba al-Arbain. It lies next to the lake where it is considered ancient worshippers took pilgrimage from the temple at Afqa to purify themselves in the temple waters. Michael Alouf found a statue of Adonis in the temple, carrying an ear of corn in one hand and a quivver and a lamb in the other. He stored the statue at a museum he founded in the ruins of Baalbek.”

>> Another Phoenician temple built near water sources like springs, rivers and lakes.

“Alouf also found a Roman road measuring 200 metres (0.12 mi), located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) southeast of the lake. He also found another square building measuring approximately 12 square metres (130 sq ft) next to this road. The building was constructed of large stones and an Ancient Greek inscription was found inside. He considered it an ancient guardhouse or watchtower for protection of travellers. He suggested that oracles were consulted at the temple in connection with Queen Zenobia, who legend tells, sent offerings to the goddess by placing them on the lake. If the offerings sunk to the floor of the lake, then the goddess had accepted them. If the offerings floated, then they had been rejected and gave a bad omen to Palmyra and the surrounding lands.

Eusebius records that the Emperor Constantine destroyed a temple of Venus 'on the summit of Mount Lebanon.'and probably it was this pagan temple dedicated to Venus.

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>> I rather we do not rush in all of these because the site was not fully excavated. We cannot build a case with a few evidences while ignoring what still needs to be recovered. It’s better to hold all of the data in your hand before coming to such conclusions.

There are other candidates concerning the Roman temple of Venus destroyed by Constantine. We are still working to identify which one it is. It’s possible it was that of Venus Heliopolitana where we are certain the sacred prostitution was practiced under the Roman rule, since Heliopolis a.k.a. Baalbek was transformed into a Roman colony and the cult practiced there was transformed into an Imperial cult with the temples being directly funded and under the direct supervision of the Roman Emperors.

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>>15429272

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“Lake Yammouneh

Lake Yammoune is home to Lebanon's only endemic fish, Pseudophoxinus libani. In Phoenician Mythology, the goddess Astarte turned herself into a golden fish in Yammoune lake to escape from the vengeance of Adonis's wrathful brother Typhon.

The lake is filled from a water cavern to the west of the temple has only one outflow, through a big hole and Robert Boulanger suggested that it might dry up entirely at the end of summer. The valley of Ouyoun Ergush leads from Yammoune towards Marjhine.

A network of rock-cut irrigation channels and watercourses lead from Lake Yammoune to provide irrigation for the region of the Beqaa Valley around Baalbek.

Possible early sanctuary of El

Marvin H. Pope (Yale University) identified the home of El in the Ugaritic texts of ca. 1200 BCE, described as "at the source[s] of the [two] rivers, in the midst of the fountains of the [two] deeps", with this famous lake and Afqa, source of the river Adonis on the other side of the mountain, which Pope asserted was closely associated with it in legend.

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>> This is just a theory from Pope, mostly about the River Adonis. There are a lot of rivers in Lebanon, it’s not easy to find out which one we are talking about. But he is also not that far away from identifying the home of El being in Lebanon. When you look at the map you will see there are 2 big rivers flowing out from the vicinity of Baalbek: Litani river and Orontes river. One flows south, then make a turn West towards the coast. While the other heads North into Syria. I personally think Baalbek is the “home of El” mentioned in the Ugaritic texts. The name itself means House of Baal, or home of Baal. Baal is Lord, which is also another way to call the Crown Prince and the King of kings, as well as the Sebetti warriors. They are Lords = Kings, Sebetti kings. Just as the same as the Evil One was.

But here in Phoenician, it was not the cult of the Evil One which was practiced, it was the cult of El and of Baal as in the King of kings and the Crown Prince. The high presence of the ThunderBirds, all of these sites we are seeing are originally Phoenician temples dedicated to El, Baal and the Baalim; as in the King of kings, the Crown Prince and the ThunderBirds. This is the conclusion I’ve reached from the pattern I have with the sites. Some, not all, are connected to water sources and healing = the power of the King of kings and the Crown Prince = the healing power of the Holy Spirit.

The Phoenicians lived like this for thousands of years till gradually, slowly the cult of the Evil Couple trickled in, faster on the north and south, but slower into the heart of Phoenician because of the Lebanese mountain chains which acted as a natural barrier and slowed the spread = advancement of the cult. Gradually, the younger generation totally forgot the story of the origins and how things really were and they thought the new duo deities = the couple = the Evil couple newly introduced or should I say injected their cult slowly into the land was the same as the cult of the ancients = the new cult overlaid on top of the existing, ancient cult of the King of kings, Crown Prince and Neith. The younger generation thought it was them, never realizing it was the Evil Couple = the coup plotters. So, they adopted some of the legends, myths and names thinking it was the Holy Rulers of Atlantis, not realizing these are the names of the Evil Couple. But even with this, we still didn’t find any human sacrifice evidence that might have occurred during the Hellenistic and Roman times in Phoenicia. So even when the cult of the Evil Couple was introduced at a late date in Phoenicia, we still couldn’t find any skeletons with sacrificial marks on them, children and adult alike – we stretched our research till the Roman era. It’s as if the whole practice was not accepted by the populace, even after the Seleucides came to rule. It was simply not in their way of life and not in their way of living in Phoenicia.

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>>15429315

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Site 17: Khalwat Hasbaya, Lebanon.

This site is located in the South of Lebanon. As anons can see, it’s also a megalithic site, built by the Phoenician and then re-used, re-built by the Romans. The stones can speak for themselves. What I said about the other sites goes for this site as well. It’s also not fully excavated.

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>>15429340

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What you see in the last picture are oil pressers from the site of Khalwat Hasbaya. The blocks are simply huge.

A notable from the site is this iconography of a person why rays = like sun rays, coming out from the head. This iconography dates back from the Roman temple constructed on top of the Phoenician foundations. The King of kings and the Crown Prince have no iconography but they are known to have Light come out of them, just like what was the case on the relief where the Evil One was killing the King of kings on page 1 366.The Evil Clan attribute this characteristic of the Great King to the Evil One since (((they))) think he is the king to rule everyone. When the Romans came to Phoenicia and saw that the ancient Phoenician temples were all dedicated to male deities with the Light coming out of them, they thought it was the founding father of the Evil Cult (possibility). A second possibility they wanted to desecrate the Temple of the King of kings. So they rebuilt the temple on already existing Phoenician foundation, using the old blocks, and they put the iconography of the Man with rays thinking it’s the Evil One = he has no beard; but the King of kings was bearded. While the local thought it was the cult of their ancestors = the cult of the King of kings and the Crown Prince.

Same thing happened with the female deities between Neith and the Evil Lady. We think originally the cult centers were of Neith, but later on, the cult of the Evil Lady superposed itself on the cult of Neith and the locals thought it was the same female deity. But amazingly, none picked up the human sacrifice practice since we found NO graves or skeletons with evidence supporting human sacrifice took place in the major Phoenician City-States like Ugarit, Gebal/Byblos and Tyre which the Phoenician sectors in them were fully excavated – none found in Amrit as well. If there was a chance to find evidence of human sacrifice it should have been in one of those major City-States, mostly in Tyre, but we didn’t find any. Same thing for Jerusalem: the “official” narrative is that we found nothing, but we were not allowed to verify this like what we did in Syria and Lebanon.

So do you understand now why we see the iconography of a male deity with rays coming out from him on the Roman temples built on ancient Phoenician foundations? The Romans think it’s the Evil One, while the locals think it’s the Crown Prince or the King of kings = the cults overlapped one another. I told anons, you gotta go see it for yourselves on the field. We checked as many as we could one by one, ourselves. Current day archaeologists think this is SOL = Sun god, but we know it’s incorrect = it’s the Evil One = he has no beard.

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