>>9978139

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Now let’s take a look at the Obelisks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk

“An obelisk (/ˈɒbəlɪsk/; from Ancient Greek: ὀβελίσκος obeliskos;[1][2] diminutive of ὀβελός obelos, "spit, nail, pointed pillar"[3]) is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top. Originally they were called tekhenu by their builders, the Ancient Egyptians. The Greeks who saw them used the Greek term obeliskos to describe them, and this word passed into Latin and ultimately English.[4] Ancient obelisks are monolithic; that is, they consist of a single stone. Most modern obelisks are made of several stones.”

“Ancient obelisks

Egyptian

Obelisks played a vital role in their religion and were prominent in the architecture of the ancient Egyptians, who placed them in pairs at the entrance of the temples. The word "obelisk" as used in English today is of Greek rather than Egyptian origin because Herodotus, the Greek traveller, was one of the first classical writers to describe the objects. A number of ancient Egyptian obelisks are known to have survived, plus the "Unfinished Obelisk" found partly hewn from its quarry at Aswan. These obelisks are now dispersed around the world, and fewer than half of them remain in Egypt.”

>> Isn’t it interesting how more than half of them were taken from Egypt and placed all around the world? Want to have a guess on who did that? And I bet where they were placed worldwide is of somewhat importance to (((them))). What are the odds of finding something underground beneath those Obelisks?

“The earliest temple obelisk still in its original position is the 68-foot (20.7 m) 120-metric-ton (130-short-ton)[5] red granite Obelisk of Senusret I of the XIIth Dynasty at Al-Matariyyah in modern Heliopolis.

The obelisk symbolized the sun god Ra, and during the religious reformation of Akhenaten it was said to have been a petrified ray of the Aten, the sundisk.

Benben was the mound that arose from the primordial waters Nu upon which the creator god Atum settled in the creation story of the Heliopolitan creation myth form of Ancient Egyptian religion. The Benben stone (also known as a pyramidion) is the top stone of the Egyptian pyramid. It is also related to the Obelisk.”

>> Interesting.

“It is hypothesized by New York University Egyptologist Patricia Blackwell Gary and Astronomy senior editor Richard Talcott that the shapes of the ancient Egyptian pyramid and obelisk were derived from natural phenomena associated with the sun (the sun-god Ra being the Egyptians' greatest deity).[7] The pyramid and obelisk's significance have been previously overlooked, especially the astronomical phenomena connected with sunrise and sunset: the zodiacal light and sun pillars respectively.”

>> I’m not so sure about this theory since the pyramids were built on a much prior date than the dynastic era.

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>>9986369

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I’m going to skip the section concerning the Nubian Obelisks because they are of later date and don’t bring any new information for what I’m looking for. If anons are interested they can read this on their own.

“Ancient Egyptian obelisks in Ancient Rome

Around 30 B.C., after Cleopatra, "the last Pharaoh", committed suicide, Rome took control of Egypt. The Ancient Romans were awestruck by the obelisks they saw, and looted the various temple complexes, in one case they destroyed walls at the Temple of Karnak to haul them out. There are now more than twice as many obelisks that were seized and shipped out by Rome as remain in Egypt. The majority were dismantled during the Roman period over 1,700 years ago and the obelisks were sent to different locations.”

>> I’m not surprised at all since I’ve been suspecting the Roman Empire to have been run by (((them))). There are a lot of indications pointing to “invisible” hands running things behind the scenes in the Roman Empire.

“The largest standing and tallest Egyptian obelisk is the Lateran Obelisk in the square at the west side of the Lateran Basilica in Rome at 105.6 feet (32.2 m) tall and a weight of 455 metric tons (502 short tons).[11] More well known is the iconic 25 metres (82 ft), 331-metric-ton (365-short-ton) obelisk at Saint Peter's Square.[11] Brought to Rome by the Emperor Caligula in AD 37, it has stood at its current site and on the wall of the Circus of Nero, flanking St Peter's Basilica.

The elder Pliny in his Natural History refers to the obelisk's transportation from Egypt to Rome by order of the Emperor Gaius (Caligula) as an outstanding event. The barge that carried it had a huge mast of fir wood which four men's arms could not encircle. One hundred and twenty bushels of lentils were needed for ballast. Having fulfilled its purpose, the gigantic vessel was no longer wanted. Therefore, filled with stones and cement, it was sunk to form the foundations of the foremost quay of the new harbour at Ostia.

Pope Sixtus V was determined to erect the obelisk in front of St Peter's, of which the nave was yet to be built. He had a full-sized wooden mock-up erected within months of his election. Domenico Fontana, the assistant of Giacomo Della Porta in the Basilica's construction, presented the Pope with a little model crane of wood and a heavy little obelisk of lead, which Sixtus himself was able to raise by turning a little winch with his finger. Fontana was given the project. Half-buried in the debris of the ages, it was first excavated as it stood; then it took from 30 April to 17 May 1586 to move it on rollers to the Piazza: it required nearly 1000 men, 140 carthorses, and 47 cranes. The re-erection, scheduled for 14 September, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, was watched by a large crowd. It was a famous feat of engineering, which made the reputation of Fontana, who detailed it in a book illustrated with copperplate etchings, Della Trasportatione dell'Obelisco Vaticano et delle Fabriche di Nostro Signore Papa Sisto V (1590), which itself set a new standard in communicating technical information and influenced subsequent architectural publications by its meticulous precision.[15] Before being re-erected the obelisk was exorcised. It is said that Fontana had teams of relay horses to make his getaway if the enterprise failed. When Carlo Maderno came to build the Basilica's nave, he had to put the slightest kink in its axis, to line it precisely with the obelisk.”

>> Interesting information, isn’t it?

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>>9986372

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“Three more obelisks were erected in Rome under Sixtus V: at Santa Maria Maggiore, in 1587; at the Lateran Basilica, in 1588; and at the Piazza del Popolo, in 1589.[16] An obelisk stands in front of the church of Trinità dei Monti, at the head of the Spanish Steps. Another obelisk in Rome is sculpted as carried on the back of an elephant. Rome lost one of its obelisks, the Boboli obelisk which had decorated the temple of Isis, where it was uncovered in the 16th century. The Medici claimed it for the Villa Medici, but in 1790 they moved it to the Boboli Gardens attached to the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, and left a replica in its stead.”

>> Anyone reading this surprised the Medici family got a hold of this Obelisk and is unwilling to return it?

“Not all the Egyptian obelisks in the Roman Empire were set up at Rome. Herod the Great imitated his Roman patrons and set up a red granite Egyptian obelisk in the hippodrome of his new city Caesarea in northern Judea. This one is about 40 feet (12 m) tall and weighs about 100 metric tons (110 short tons).[17] It was discovered by archaeologists and has been re-erected at its former site.”

>> This is interesting.

“In 357, Emperor Constantius II had two Karnak Temple obelisks removed and transported down the Nile to Alexandria to commemorate his ventennalia, the 20th year of his reign. Afterward, one was sent to Rome and erected on the spina of the Circus Maximus, and is today known as the Lateran Obelisk. The other one, known as the Obelisk of Theodosius, remained in Alexandria until 390, when Emperor Theodosius I had it transported to Constantinople (now Istanbul) and put up on the spina of the Hippodrome of Constantinople (now Sultan Ahmet Square).[18] It once stood 95 feet (29 m) tall and weighed 380 metric tons (420 short tons); however, its lower section (which reputedly also once stood in the hippodrome) is now lost, reducing the obelisk's size to 65 feet (20 m).”

“Ancient Egyptian obelisks in modern cities

The Ancient Romans populated their city with 8 large and 42 small Egyptian obelisks. More have been re-erected elsewhere, and the best-known examples outside Rome are the pair of 21-metre (69 ft) 187-metric-ton (206-short-ton) Cleopatra's Needles in London, England (21 metres or 69 feet) and New York City, USA (21 metres or 70 feet) and the 23-metre (75 ft) over-250-metric-ton (280-short-ton) Luxor Obelisk at the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France.

Obelisks were being shipped out of Egypt as late as the nineteenth century when three of them were sent to London, New York and Paris. Their transportation was covered by various newspapers.”

>> We’ve dug about this in the previous thread. (((They))) have been interested in these Obelisks and (((they))) even performed a Masonic procession for the one in New York, if my memory is not betraying me.

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>>9986379

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There are ancient Egyptian obelisks in the following locations:

• Egypt – 11

o Pharaoh Seti II, Karnak Temple, Luxor, 7 m (23 ft)

o Pharaoh Thutmosis I, Karnak Temple, Luxor

o Pharaoh Ramses II, Luxor Temple

o Pharaoh Hatshepsut, Karnak Temple, Luxor

o Pharaoh Senusret I, Al-Masalla area of Al-Matariyyah district in Heliopolis, Cairo

o Pharaoh Ramses II, Tahrir Square, Cairo

o Pharaoh Ramses III, Luxor Museum

o Pharaoh Ramses II, Gezira Island, Cairo, 20.4 m (67 ft)[22]

o Pharaoh Ramses II, Cairo International Airport, 16.97 m (55.7 ft)

o Pharaoh Hatshepsut, "The Unfinished obelisk", Stone Quarries, Aswan

o Pharaoh Senusret I, Faiyum

• France – 1

o Pharaoh Ramses II, Luxor Obelisk, in Place de la Concorde, Paris[21]

• Israel – 1

o Caesarea obelisk

• Italy – 13 (includes the only one located in the Vatican City)

o Rome — 8 ancient Egyptian obelisks (see List of obelisks in Rome)

o Piazza del Duomo, Catania (Sicily)

o Boboli Obelisk (Florence)

o Urbino

• Poland – 1

o PharaohRamses II, Poznań Archaeological Museum, Poznań (on loan from Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin)[23]

• Turkey – 1

o Pharaoh Tuthmosis III, the Obelisk of Theodosius in the Hippodrome of Constantinople (now Sultan Ahmet Square), Istanbul

• United Kingdom – 4

o Pharaoh Tuthmosis III, "Cleopatra's Needle", beside the Thames Victoria Embankment, in London

o Pharaoh Amenhotep II, in the Oriental Museum, University of Durham

o Pharaoh Ptolemy IX, Philae obelisk, at Kingston Lacy, near Wimborne Minster, Dorset

o Pharaoh Nectanebo II, British Museum, London (pair of obelisks)

• United States – 1

o Pharaoh Tuthmosis III, "Cleopatra's Needle", in Central Park, New York

>> Outside Egypt, it seems London and Rome received the most Obelisks.

I’m going to skip the Assyrian and the Axumite (Ethiopia) parts because they do not fit into what I’m looking for in this research. It’s interesting to read this because personally it gave me the impression that Obelisks are not related to electricity but to spirituality.

“Ancient Roman

The Romans commissioned obelisks in an ancient Egyptian style. Examples include:

• Arles, France – Arles Obelisk, in Place de la République, a 4th-century obelisk of Roman origin

• Benevento, Italy – Domitian Obelisk[27][28]

• Munich – Obelisk of Titus Sextius Africanus, at Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst, 1st century AD, 5.8 metres (19 ft)

• Rome – there are five, see List of obelisks in Rome”

Skipping the Byzantine Obelisk.

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