Anonymous ID: 3640ab March 26, 2022, 8:58 p.m. No.15954186   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4197 >>4366 >>4390 >>4427 >>4496 >>4515 >>4610 >>4671 >>4701

Monumental Structure in Sicily Isn’t a Phoenician Harbor – It’s a Huge Sacred Pool of Baal

The kothon of Motya in southern Sicily had first been assumed to be an artificial harbor. It wasn’t, archaeologist Lorenzo Nigro of Sapienza proves

And Elijah waxed sarcastic with the prophets of Baal after the god disdained their pleading to light a fire beneath an unfortunate sacrificial bullock: “Cry aloud; for he is a god; either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked” – Kings 18: 27

 

The great Baal, whose name means “owner” or “master,” whose fief depended on when and where he was being adored – king of the gods, god of the seasons and the storm, god of fertility, god of rain and thunder, whose name was legion; worshipped from Ugarit to North Africa and across the Mediterranean thousands of years ago, and anathema to the priests of Yahweh, Baal would become Bel to the Arameans, and Belos or Belios to the ancient Greeks, which is a crucial point to this story.

 

The “artificial harbor” discovered in the Phoenician port of Motya in southern Sicily in the early 20th century was no such thing. The monumental rectangular basin had been misinterpreted. It has now shown to have been a gigantic sacred pool in honor of Baal that operated during the city’s Phoenician period, from the 8th to the 5th centuries B.C.E., archaeologist Prof. Lorenzo Nigro of Sapienza University in Rome explains in the journal Antiquity.

https://www.haaretz.com/science-and-health/MAGAZINE-monumental-structure-isn-t-phoenician-harbor-it-s-a-sacred-pool-of-baal-1.10679272

 

That shit is everywhere.