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*** Mary Magdalene in Orange ***
Here are a couple of interview-talks about Mary Magdalene, and her flight to Orange in France. Where she may have established the independent principality and princes of Orange, led by William of Orange (Guillaume de Gellone).
Centuries later, this independent city state was forced to evacuate France and move to Holland, to become the Dutch Princes of Orange, and still led by a William of Orange.
Vocation Channel:
youtube.com/watch?v=f7a-JOxc…
Aeon Byte Gnostic:
youtube.com/live/YFzmfS-tDpk…
Ralph Ellis
*** The Historical Jesus in England ***
Matty over at Vocation has uploaded my full historical Jesus talk, which is very interesting. Jesus was not only a 'bit of a rebel', he was actually the leader of the Jewish Revolt.
In which case, we now have the complete history of the biblical Jesus -- he was called (Prince) Jesus of Gamala or King Izas Manu au Kama of Edessa. A real freemasonic king, instead of a pretend carpenter king (tekton means architect or freemason, rather than carpenter).
But after the Revolt ended, the defeated King Izas-Jesus was shipped off to a new prison fortress in Chester, Britannia, to keep him as far from Judaea as possible within the Roman Empire. So yes, "those feet in ancient time, did indeed walk upon England's mountains green".
Do enjoy....
youtu.be/pkNnzlKZ0Ms?is=GJg8…
Ralph Ellis
*** Youtube Greed and Self-destruction ***
I was notified that adverts on my Youtube pages were getting excessive, which I thought to be odd as I had widely spaced all advert breaks. Only to find that Youtube had unilaterally (and secretly) redefined their terms of service, and stuffed adverts all over my Youtube videos - in some cases giving two advert breaks within one minute!
So not only is Youtube filling videos with fake and fraudulent product adverts, they are now deliberately putting off viewers from watching. Who would want to watch 20 fake and fraudulent adverts per hour? The stats and comments demonstrate the result, with many people abandoning the video in the first three or four minutes. This is self-defeating, both for content producers and for Youtube itself. Elon needs to make a competing Youtube-kiIler platform...!
The Youtube fake products scam:
teapaw.org/ralphyellis/status/205…
Anyway, I have reduced video adverts down to four or so ad-breaks per video (which took several hours, going through each video). Please let me know if you see a video with too many ads in it.
Ralph Ellis videos:
Note: the thumbnail image may change soon.
youtube.com/@RalphEllis/vide…
Thanks,
Ralph Ellis
*** Youtube — the Scammer Channel ***
I am getting fed up with Youtube scamming people. Every advert I see on Youtube, is for a scam product.
… Fake laser welders.
… Fake dust removal.
… Fake rust remover.
… Fake cherry trees.
… Fake paint restorer.
… Fake home heaters.
… Fake candle heaters.
… Fake strimmers (weed trimmers)
… Fake drill bits.
… Fake pressure washer.
… (I am sure you can add to the list).
Why is Youtube allowed to scam people for (advertising) cash?
Surely that is a crime in itself?
Why has Youtube not been closed down?
Take the fake home heaters — which are supposed to be super efficient, save you hundreds of pounds, and heat a large room in mere seconds.
A colleague bought two, because she wanted to reduce her heating bill. But anyone with any electrical knowledge will know that electric fan heaters are already near to 95% efficient — so no scammy little heater will suddenly be much more efficient.
In addition, this cheapo Chinese heater was a fire hazard. The fan looked like it was a computer cooling fan; there did not appear to be a thermic cut-out; it was only 500w so would not heat a large room in the manner described; and the wiring looked like it was assembled at a primary school. The entire assembly was not only a scam (bearing in mind the advertised description), it was ‘kin dangerous.
So I ask again — why is Youtube allowed to profit from multiple scan adverts. At least half the adverts I see there are scams. Please write to Youtube and any relevant civil authorities you can think of, and complain about this scammy Youtube company.
Images:
a. Proper DIY Channel, which has been exposing scams.
b. The scam heater
c. AI explanation of fan heaters.
Ralph Ellis
*** Atlantis-Santorini ... Wrong Date? ***
A criticism of the identification of Atlantis being Santorini, is the seemingly incompatible dates. The destruction of Atlantis was said to have been 9,000 years before the time of Solon, which is thought to have been 590 BC. This would place Atlantis at around 9,600 BC, which is well before the era of the Minoans and Santorini.
However, Manetho's said that the early Egyptians used Lunar Years, rather than Solar Years. This, he explains, is why Noah was supposed to have lived for 950 years. The conversion is about 12.35, so Noah lived for 77 years (a numerically significant number). Similarly, 9,000 lunar years would equate to about 730 solar years, and therefore to a date of about 1320 BC (bearing in mind the suspiciously rounded number of 9,000 years).
Although this date does not equate precisely with the Santorini eruption in about 1600 BC, it is a date that would make a degree of sense. The Santorini eruption was coincident with, and causal of, the biblical Hyksos-Israelite Exodus in about 1570 BC. See the X link below. However, the next Egypto-Israelite Exodus was the exodus of Akhenaton and his brother TuthMoses (Aaron and his brother Moses), in about 1320 BC. Since the Torah has managed to confuse and conflate these two exodus events, it would not be so surprising if Plato has done much the same - thus moving the Santorini eruption into the 1320s BC.
The evidence strongly suggests that Atlantis was Santorini.
The Hyksos-Israelite Exodus, in 1570 BC:
teapaw.org/ralphyellis/status/195…
Image:
An aerial view of Santorini. Note that the center of the island did indeed sink beneath the sea in a matter of a day or so, just as Plato describes. (The entire eruption sequence lasted a few months, until the final cataclysm.)
Ralph Ellis
*** The Israelite Exodus was the Hyksos Exodus ***
Judaism will claim that the lsraelite Exodus was a real event, one if the great foundational events for Judaism, and yet it cannot be found within the historical record. There is no evidence for a mass migration out of Egypt during the Ramesside era.
The reason for this historical lacuna is simple - the Israelite exodus happened in an earlier era. We saw in earlier TwiXes that The lsraelites were the Hyksos pharaohs of Egypt, and that the biblical Jacob (Yakob) was likely to have been Pharaoh Yakobam, a Hyksos pharaoh.
Josephus - the lsraelites were Hyksos pharaohs:
teapaw.org/ralphellis87311/status…
Jacob (Yakob) was Pharaoh Yakobam:
teapaw.org/ralphellis87311/status…
Yet if these suppositions are correct, then it is highly likely that the Great lsraelite Exodus out of Egypt to Jerusalem, was the Great Hyksos out of Egypt to Jerusalem (as narrated by Manetho via Josephus and Africanus). They are the same, excepting the date. Both of these exodus events had:
… Peoples called Shepherds,
… A leader called Yakob,
… A people who wore earrings and curly sidelocks.
… A great (civil) war with the Egyptians,
… Experienced darkness three days,
… Experienced a great ashfall,
… Saw a pillar of fire and smoke,
… Experienced a tsunami parting the waters,
… An exodus of many thousands of people,
… Who travelled from Egypt to Jerusalem,
… And destroyed Jericho along the way.
Note that the Hyksos Exodus out of Egypt to Jerusalem, was initiated by the eruption of Santorini in 1600 BC, which caused the many tribulations or Plagues. This had to be an eye-witness event, because only a chronicler of that time would know that an undersea volcano would produce: a pillar of fire and smoke, darkness for three days, a great ashfall, air too thick to breathe, and a tsunami, all together as a single cataclysmic event.
Thus the Hyksos-lsraelite Exodus HAS to be a real event, caused by the eruption of Santorini. This, together with the established history of the Hyksos pharaohs in Egypt, dates the Great Hyksos-lsraelite Exodus to about 1580 BC, not 1250 BC.
Interestingly, this new date solves yet another problem for the Torah account. The biblical Exodus is again regarded as being mythology, because the Israelites could not have destroyed Jericho. Archaeology suggests that the city had been abandoned for hundreds of years before the time of the classical Exodus era, during the Ramesside period. However, the classical date for the destruction of Jericho is coincident with the classical date for Hyksos Exodus from Egypt to Jerusalem, at the end of the Middle Bronze Age, around 1570 BC.
Again we see strong evidence that the Israelite Shepherds Patriarchs were the Hyksos Shepherd Pharaohs. Thus the biblical account is likely correct and wholly historical, because the Hyksos-Israelites DID indeed destroy Jericho during their Exodus from Egypt, but this actually happened in 1570 BC.
Note: The Jericho trumpets were a simply a diversionary tactic, while Rahab the prostitute opened the gates of the city.
See the book 'Tempest & Exodus’.
amazon.com/dp/B0753FWD9D
Images:
a. AI images of the tsunami ‘parting the waters’, the tsunami that destroyed the Egyptian army.
b. AI image of the walls of Jericho tumbling down.
Ralph
*** The Eye of Sahara is Atlantis ***
In the last TwiX we looked at whether Atlantis was Santorini, just north of Crete - the island that blew up in about 1600 BC, and sank beneath the sea. But there is a new competing theory that Atlantis was the Richat Structure in North Africa, the so-called Eye of Sahara.
Previous TwiX - where was Atlantis?...
teapaw.org/ralphyellis/status/211…
The trouble with this new argument, is that apart from its circular shape the Richat Structure does not conform with any of the descriptions given by Plato. It is not near the sea, it is not volcanic, and it never housed an advance civilisation.
The Richat Structure is a series of sedimentary strata that were forced up into a dome by volcanic activity about 100 million years ago, while subsequent weathering has worn those layers down exposing concentric circles. Recent archaeology on this impressive site has highlighted many stone tools, but no advanced civilisation. During the Holocene Maximum some 8,000 years ago there may have been pools and trees in this region, because the whole of the Sahara was green and fertile (without the influence of CO2), but the Richat Structure never sank beneath the sea due to volcanic activity. The structure is nowhere near the sea, and the last volcanic activity here was 100 million years ago.
Conversely, we know that Santorini violently erupted 3,600 years ago, and the ceneter of the island did indeed sink beneath the sea. We know that Santorini was home to an advanced civilisation who lived on concentric circles of land and sea (Santorini was a flooded nested caldera). And we know that that the Minoan civilisation evacuated their island before the final eruption, as no bodies were discovered at Akrotiri. (Many of them fled to Egypt, taking their naturalistic art style to that region - a style that was subsequently championed by Pharaoh Akhenaton.) The Santorini location also agrees with the description that 'mud' blocked the port at Athens - the 'mud' being floating pumice from the Santorini eruption, which would indeed have blocked shipping from Athens if it was 20 cm thick or so.
In short, the Richat Structure has nothing to support it as the site of Atlantis, while Santorini has many points of commonality with this ancient story.
Atlantis was Santorini.
Images: The Richat Structure and its geology.
Ralph Ellis
*** Where Was Atlantis ? ***
Caleb Howells explores potential locations for the city of Atlantis, and mentions the argument that Atlantis was not 'greater' (in size) than Libya and Asia, but lay 'between' Libya and Asia - thus locating Atlantis in the Mediterranean. See the video.
Video on Atlantis:
youtu.be/v7uBko2PL-s?is=B6h7…
This is correct, but I think Caleb is wrong in his final summation, because I believe that Atlantis was Santorini / Thera - the island that lay just north of Minoan Crete. It is Santorini that conforms to most of the descriptions given for Atlantis. For example, Santorini:
a. Lay between Libya and Asia.
b. Had a narrow entrance to an inland sea.
c. Had concentric circles of land and sea, because it was a flooded nested caldera.
d. It did indeed host an advanced civilisation.
e. Did indeed suffer many earthquakes.
f. Did indeed sink beneath the sea in a matter of days.
g. The eruption would indeed have spread 'mud' all over the Aegean, blocking the port of Athens.
h. The 'mud' was floating pumice from the eruption of Santorini, which does indeed look like mud.
The vast amount of pumice from Santorini also explains the Arthurian floating islands of the eastern Mediterranean (the Turning Isle). This was a hot and barren island a kilometre or so across, which had nothing upon it apart from a few sea birds. It sometimes tipped and turned, as if it was going to roll over, and it caught on the bottom of the ocean (grinding and groaning) and started turning in the swirling currents (or magnetism, according to Arthurian Legend). This is a perfect description of a great floating island of pumice, which lay in bands up to 60 m thick around the island of Santorini. A piece of this pumice breaking off would indeed have become a hot a barren floating island, drifting across the Mediterranean. And the Arthurian knights knew of this turning island, because they were in the eastern Mediterranean at the time. (Arthurian legend is a curious and wide ranging document.)
Pumice looks like mud, and could block sailing ships.
youtu.be/5NvftYwcAPw?is=sNsM…
One problem to this thesis is that Atlantis is said to lay beyond the Pillars of Hercules. But what was meant here, by the Pillars of Hercules? Remember that the original Pillars of Hercules were the great pyramids on the Giza Plateau. Hercules (Heracles) is portrayed on zodiacs as being Orion, yet the three pyramids at Giza are laid out in the same fashion as the Belt of Orion. So the primary pillars or pyramids that were associated with Hercules-Orion, were the pyramids at Giza. And if Solon was in Thebes, then Santorini did lay beyond the Pillars of Orion-Hercules at Giza.
Mt Sinai is the Great Pyramid:
teapaw.org/ralphyellis/status/195…
And finally, it was the eruption at Santorini that caused the biblical Plagues and the resulting Hyksos-Israelite Exodus. Only an eruption like Santorini could have caused the: pillar of smoke and pillar of fire, the great ash-fall, the three days of darkness, and the large water-parting tsunami that consumed the Egyptian army. The Santorini eruption was the biggest event in this millennium, so of course people will have told tales and written stories about this mighty cataclysm, and the dire effects it had on the eastern Mediterranean.
The Santorini Plagues and Exodus.
teapaw.org/ralphyellis/status/195…
What do you think?
Does this explain Atlantis?
Images:
a. The pumice cliffs at Santorini.
b. The concentric land and sea of Santorini.
Ralph Ellis
Santorini was also composed of concentric circles, as the original Minoan fresco of the island demonstrates. See the image in the previous TwiX.
I write about Santorini and the great floating islands of pumice in my 'Grail Cypher'. It is discussed in this book, because this is a part of Arthurian Legend - because these legends came back from the East with returning Crusaders.
The Grail Cypher.
amazon.com/dp/B09Q3H8H84
Ralph Ellis
*** Where Was Atlantis ? ***
Caleb Howells explores potential locations for the city of Atlantis, and mentions the argument that Atlantis was not 'greater' (in size) than Libya and Asia, but lay 'between' Libya and Asia - thus locating Atlantis in the Mediterranean. See the video.
Video on Atlantis:
youtu.be/v7uBko2PL-s?is=B6h7…
This is correct, but I think Caleb is wrong in his final summation, because I believe that Atlantis was Santorini / Thera - the island that lay just north of Minoan Crete. It is Santorini that conforms to most of the descriptions given for Atlantis. For example, Santorini:
a. Lay between Libya and Asia.
b. Had a narrow entrance to an inland sea.
c. Had concentric circles of land and sea, because it was a flooded nested caldera.
d. It did indeed host an advanced civilisation.
e. Did indeed suffer many earthquakes.
f. Did indeed sink beneath the sea in a matter of days.
g. The eruption would indeed have spread 'mud' all over the Aegean, blocking the port of Athens.
h. The 'mud' was floating pumice from the eruption of Santorini, which does indeed look like mud.
The vast amount of pumice from Santorini also explains the Arthurian floating islands of the eastern Mediterranean (the Turning Isle). This was a hot and barren island a kilometre or so across, which had nothing upon it apart from a few sea birds. It sometimes tipped and turned, as if it was going to roll over, and it caught on the bottom of the ocean (grinding and groaning) and started turning in the swirling currents (or magnetism, according to Arthurian Legend). This is a perfect description of a great floating island of pumice, which lay in bands up to 60 m thick around the island of Santorini. A piece of this pumice breaking off would indeed have become a hot a barren floating island, drifting across the Mediterranean. And the Arthurian knights knew of this turning island, because they were in the eastern Mediterranean at the time. (Arthurian legend is a curious and wide ranging document.)
Pumice looks like mud, and could block sailing ships.
youtu.be/5NvftYwcAPw?is=sNsM…
One problem to this thesis is that Atlantis is said to lay beyond the Pillars of Hercules. But what was meant here, by the Pillars of Hercules? Remember that the original Pillars of Hercules were the great pyramids on the Giza Plateau. Hercules (Heracles) is portrayed on zodiacs as being Orion, yet the three pyramids at Giza are laid out in the same fashion as the Belt of Orion. So the primary pillars or pyramids that were associated with Hercules-Orion, were the pyramids at Giza. And if Solon was in Thebes, then Santorini did lay beyond the Pillars of Orion-Hercules at Giza.
Mt Sinai is the Great Pyramid:
teapaw.org/ralphyellis/status/195…
And finally, it was the eruption at Santorini that caused the biblical Plagues and the resulting Hyksos-Israelite Exodus. Only an eruption like Santorini could have caused the: pillar of smoke and pillar of fire, the great ash-fall, the three days of darkness, and the large water-parting tsunami that consumed the Egyptian army. The Santorini eruption was the biggest event in this millennium, so of course people will have told tales and written stories about this mighty cataclysm, and the dire effects it had on the eastern Mediterranean.
The Santorini Plagues and Exodus.
teapaw.org/ralphyellis/status/195…
What do you think?
Does this explain Atlantis?
Images:
a. The pumice cliffs at Santorini.
b. The concentric land and sea of Santorini.
Ralph Ellis
*** The Israelite Exodus was the Hyksos Exodus ***
Judaism will claim that the lsraelite Exodus was a real event, one if the great foundational events for Judaism, and yet it cannot be found within the historical record. There is no evidence for a mass migration out of Egypt during the Ramesside era.
The reason for this historical lacuna is simple - the Israelite exodus happened in an earlier era. We saw in earlier TwiXes that The lsraelites were the Hyksos pharaohs of Egypt, and that the biblical Jacob (Yakob) was likely to have been Pharaoh Yakobam, a Hyksos pharaoh.
Josephus - the lsraelites were Hyksos pharaohs:
teapaw.org/ralphellis87311/status…
Jacob (Yakob) was Pharaoh Yakobam:
teapaw.org/ralphellis87311/status…
Yet if these suppositions are correct, then it is highly likely that the Great lsraelite Exodus out of Egypt to Jerusalem, was the Great Hyksos out of Egypt to Jerusalem (as narrated by Manetho via Josephus and Africanus). They are the same, excepting the date. Both of these exodus events had:
… Peoples called Shepherds,
… A leader called Yakob,
… A people who wore earrings and curly sidelocks.
… A great (civil) war with the Egyptians,
… Experienced darkness three days,
… Experienced a great ashfall,
… Saw a pillar of fire and smoke,
… Experienced a tsunami parting the waters,
… An exodus of many thousands of people,
… Who travelled from Egypt to Jerusalem,
… And destroyed Jericho along the way.
Note that the Hyksos Exodus out of Egypt to Jerusalem, was initiated by the eruption of Santorini in 1600 BC, which caused the many tribulations or Plagues. This had to be an eye-witness event, because only a chronicler of that time would know that an undersea volcano would produce: a pillar of fire and smoke, darkness for three days, a great ashfall, air too thick to breathe, and a tsunami, all together as a single cataclysmic event.
Thus the Hyksos-lsraelite Exodus HAS to be a real event, caused by the eruption of Santorini. This, together with the established history of the Hyksos pharaohs in Egypt, dates the Great Hyksos-lsraelite Exodus to about 1580 BC, not 1250 BC.
Interestingly, this new date solves yet another problem for the Torah account. The biblical Exodus is again regarded as being mythology, because the Israelites could not have destroyed Jericho. Archaeology suggests that the city had been abandoned for hundreds of years before the time of the classical Exodus era, during the Ramesside period. However, the classical date for the destruction of Jericho is coincident with the classical date for Hyksos Exodus from Egypt to Jerusalem, at the end of the Middle Bronze Age, around 1570 BC.
Again we see strong evidence that the Israelite Shepherds Patriarchs were the Hyksos Shepherd Pharaohs. Thus the biblical account is likely correct and wholly historical, because the Hyksos-Israelites DID indeed destroy Jericho during their Exodus from Egypt, but this actually happened in 1570 BC.
Note: The Jericho trumpets were a simply a diversionary tactic, while Rahab the prostitute opened the gates of the city.
See the book 'Tempest & Exodus’.
amazon.com/dp/B0753FWD9D
Images:
a. AI images of the tsunami ‘parting the waters’, the tsunami that destroyed the Egyptian army.
b. AI image of the walls of Jericho tumbling down.
Ralph
*** The Sacred Elagabal Stone ***
In the last TwiX I mentioned the elagabal stone, but what is the history of this esoteric sacred meteorite? Its history is mired in mythology, but here is a reasonable timeline.
... it was the benben stone of ancient Egypt.
... it was the 'pillow' stone of Jacob.
(a matseba, a pillar or pyramid)
... it was the omphalos stone of Delphi.
... it was the omphalos stone of Parthia.
(courtesy of Alexander the Great)
... it was the betel stone of Edessa.
(inside the Ark of the Covenant)
... it was the betel stone of Emessa.
(in a temple, identified with the phoenix)
... it was the elagabal of Emperor Elagabalus.
(again identified with the phoenix)
... it was copied as the lingam of India.
... it was the stone of Scone in Scotland.
... it was the stone of James Bond.
Quite a history.
This sacred stone was displayed as a conical or egg shaped meteorite - black, rough, and pitted from its phoenix-like fiery arrival to Earth. It was said by Arthurian legend to be the Holy Grail, again linked to the phoenix and likely metallic and magnetic - hence the sword stuck on a stone.
But where is it now?
And why is it thought to be sacred?
The Romans did not find it attractive, and sent it away as soon as they could (after the murder or exile of Emperor Elagabalus). So why does it appear once again, in a James Bond film? In short, the omphalos is a peculiar esoteric object, with an obscure and confusing history.
Images:
a. The benben of Egypt.
b. The omphalos of Greek Parthia.
c. The betel and elagabal of Syria and Rome.
d. The elagabal of 007.
Ralph Ellis
*** Tutankhamen and the Elagabal Stone ***
The dagger of Tutankhamen was made of meteoric iron, but where did that iron come from?
One possibility is it came from the sacred elagabal (heliogabal) Stone, the sacred stone of Emperor Elagabalus. Arthurian legend indicates that the elagabal may have been a metallic meteorite; and if it had been magnetic, this may also explain the legend of the sword in the stone.
I will make a TwiX about the elagabal later this week.
Tutankhamen's Meteoric Dagger.
Sincere apologies for using the Biased Broadcasting Company. I will scrub my screen clean with disinfectant.
youtu.be/Bxxr2dmIErM?is=IH8E…
Images:
a. The sacred meteorite of Elagabalus.
b. Sword in the stone, Somerset.
Ralph Ellis
*** Are parables merely the Life of Jesus? ***
In the last TwiX we saw how the parable of the Prodigal Son was possibly a story of Jesus-Izas, the wayward but humbled prince returning back to Edessa.
Yet in Previous TwiXes we saw how the parable of the Vineyard Owner was a speech by Jesus-Izas, justifying a tax-dispute war against Rome.
So are all these supposedly wise parables merely extracts from the life of Jesus-Izas? Are there no profound societal insights to be found in the gospels - just the story of a revolutionary royal life?
Jesus and the tax-dispute:
teapaw.org/ralphyellis/status/197…
Image: Romans invading Jesus-Izas' lands.
Ralph Ellis
*** Jesus’ Tax Dispute with Rome ***
In previous TwiXes, we have seen how the gospel Jesus was a prince and king of Edessa, in northern Syria. And secondly, that he was the leader of the Jewish Revolt, which is why he was crucified by Rome, after that Revolt failed.
So what, according to biblical history, was the Jesus’ Jewish Revolt all about? The answer can be clearly seen in the Parable of the Vineyard Owner (Lu 20:9, Mk 12:1, Mt 21:33).
Quote:
And Jesus began to speak unto them by parables. A (landlord) planted a vineyard ... and let it out to farmer, and went into a far country. At the harvest he sent a servant to his tenant, that he might receive his rent. But they caught the servant, and beat him ... and beat another ... and another they killed. So what shall the lord of the vineyard do? He will destroy the wicked farmer, and will give the vineyard unto others (who will pay their rent on time).
So why is the gospel’s 'pauper prince of peace' upholding the rights of absentee landlords to kill their tenants, if they fail to pay their rent? The answer is that this is a parable, and thus purposely designed to withhold secret information. So the Church’s interpretation of this parable is hopelessly wrong. For the true answer, just replace ‘landlord’ with Edessan king, and replace ‘tenant’ with Romans.
Quote:
And Jesus began to speak unto them by parables. An Edessan king planted a vineyard (owned lands in Judaea) ... and let them out to the Romans, and went into a far country (went back to Edessa). At the harvest the king sent a servant to the Romans, that he might receive his rent. But they caught the servant, and beat him ... and beat another ... and another they killed. So what shall the Edessan king do? He will destroy those wicked Romans, and will rent out the lands of Judaea unto others (who will pay their rent on time).
Now we can see the true historical problem. The Romans were occupying Edessan lands in Judaea and Syria, and failing to pay the Edessan royalty any rent (tribute). Indeed, these terrible Roman tenants were so bad, they were demanding rent from the landlord. The cheek of it - what tenant has ever been so brazen?? So when the Edessan army goes down to Judaea, it will destroy those wicked Romans and the king will rent this land out to a people who WILL pay their rent.
This was the basis and the justification for the Jewish Revolt - it was primarily a tax dispute. The Romans were demanding tribute from Edessa, for cultivating and living on their own lands. And this was unacceptable to King Izas Manu, king of Edessa and Judaea, and so he went to war with Rome.
Which may not have been a wise decision, by the wise king.
Image:
Jesus-Izas and Mary observe yet more Romans invading Edessan lands.
Ralph Ellis
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*** Jesus - the Prodigal Son ***
Here is a thought - was Jesus the Prodigal Son?
You might remember the parable of the extravagant (prodigal) son who went to a far country and squandered his wealth, while the dutiful elder son worked diligently for his father at home. Eventually the extravagant son ran out of money just as a famine struck the land, and he was forced to return home to receive the wrath of his father. But instead of being angry, the father slaughtered the fatted calf for a feast, to welcome home the wayward son, much to the chagrin of the dedicated and dutiful elder son. See Luke 15:17–20.
Does this parable not suit the life of the historical King Izas-Jesus very well? For instance, James, the elder brother of Jesus, was well known as being an unwashed, pious, long and lank-haired smelly vegan, much the same as modern vegans:
Quote:
James the brother of the Lord … was holy from his mother's womb; and he drank no wine nor strong drink, nor did he eat flesh. No razor came upon his head; he did not anoint himself with oil, and he did not use the bath. (Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, 2.23.4–5.)
In great contrast, Jesus was well known for his love of life - the typical wayward younger son of a royal family. Think of Prince Andrew contrasted with Prince Charles, a dynastic similarity doubtless including many young ladies in a similar fashion.
Quote:
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at this glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ (Matthew 11:19.)
Confirmation of the wayward nature of Jesus can be found in the Toledot Yeshu, an 11th century legend garnished from the jottings of the Gospels, the early Church Fathers, and Talmudic rabbis. In this account it is not Saul who is being accused of heresy, but Jesus (Yeshu); so he is brought before Queen Helena, the Queen of the Jews.
Quote:
Now the land of Israel was given over unto the hand of a queen in those days, whose name was Helena …. The Sages bound Yeshu and led him before Queen Helena, with the accusation: "This man is a sorcerer and entices everyone.” (Goldstein, Jesus in the Jewish Tradition, pp. 148-154.)
Some manuscripts say the governor who judged Jesus was Pontius Pilate, but the majority say it was Queen Helena - while conveniently forgetting that Queen Helena did not become the Queen of Judaea until the early AD 50s. Thus in my Edessa Gospel theory interpretation, Prince Izas-Jesus was being judged here by his own mother. Has Saul coopted this story and applied it to himself, when he too was judged for Judaic heresy?
Thus if we apply the Edessa Gospel Theory to these circumstances, there are many similarities to be found:
a. History records that the younger son (ie: Prince Izas-Jesus) was the favourite.
b. The Gospels record that James was the dutiful ascetic.
c. James would indeed have been long haired because he was a Nazarene, a sect that grew their hair long in the same fashion as the Edessan royalty.
d. The Gospels record that Jesus was the glutton and sinner.
e. Legend records that Jesus was the radical subversive.
f. The Gospels record that Jesus lived mostly in Egypt and Judaea, rather than in Edessa.
g. History and Gospels record there was indeed a great famine in Judaea, in the late 40s to early 50s.
h. History and Gospels record that King Abgar and Queen Helena of Edessa sent famine relief money to Jerusalem, by the hands of Saul and Barnabas.
i. It is not unreasonable to suggest that if a famine struck Judaea, that an increasingly poverty-stricken Prince Izas-Jesus would return to Edessa and beg for money from his father. To support his small band of sycophants, if not the wider Judaean population. … So was this supposed ‘great famine’ merely a reference to the followers of Prince Izas-Jesus running out of money? The same as Andrew and Fergie keep returning to the queen and king (and Epstein), to beg for more money?
j. King Abgarus would indeed have been in Edessa, rather than Judaea, because the Romans had placed travel restrictions upon him.
k. Prince James, the dutiful ascetic son, may well have felt aggrieved and jealous of the warm welcome given to the wayward and prodigal son, who had just received another huge tranche from the royal treasury. Just as William looks perpetually aggrieved at Andrew and his perennial begging bowl. And to do what with this extra money? To fritter it away on yet more gluttony, sinners, and young women who end up dead?
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So was the Prodigal Son parable an account of Jesus returning to Edessa, after so many years away in Egypt and Judaea? The son who was lost, and is now found? Was this parable a justification and confirmation, that Jesus was still the favourite younger son, and (in his eyes) the true heir to the throne of Edessa?
Image:
a. The Prodigal Son is welcomed home by his father. Stained glass window, Charleston, Carolina.
b. The Prodigal Sibling begs for more money from his brother. Westminster Abbey, England.
Ralph Ellis
This new interpretation does give a good rationale as to why this parable was included in the gospel story. Because as a youngster, I could not agree with it - I was all in favour of the older brother, whose diligent hard work had been trampled upon by a feckless younger brother.
However, if the Prodigal Son was Jesus himself, then of course he or his followers would want to include this parable, as a justification for the glorification and veneration of the feckless son.
Ralph
*** Chemtrails are Real ***
Well maybe not.
Again I attack the new religion of Chemtrails.
Note the comments section in the video - the believers have no answers, no riposte, no evidence, no data, no experience, and no arguments. All they have is vitriol and denigration - the same as all left-wing arguments about climate, energy, economy, and politics.
As religion declines, people don't stop believing. Instead they believe in anything - even if thEY have no reasoned evidence to support their beliefs. No wonder the Catholic Church lasted so long.
(Note: I have 45 years of commercial flying experience.)
youtu.be/XqMq1QRRq5U?is=DdM8…
Ralph Ellis.
*** The Complete Jesus of Edessa Explanation ***
Vocation has placed all my Jesus of Edessa videos into two long-format videos, so you can watch the entire series over two informative evenings.
Do enjoy this deconstruction and explanation of the true historical events of the New Testament. Do invite friends and colleagues to debate these new concepts and explanations.
Part 1.
John the Baptist, Mary, Saul-Paul, Palmyra, Edessa,
Rome and the Jewish Revolt.
youtu.be/MyhVy_7P6M0?is=rL9H…
Part 2.
Josephus, King Abgarus, Queen Helena, Edessa,
King Izas Manu, Cleopatra VII, Magi, Alfred the Great.
youtu.be/If3gfJ0S8GQ?is=xlOF…
Image: The link-image is Part 1.
Ralph Ellis
*** Ralph Ellis New Website ***
Reader Jason Perez asked if I would like a new website, because Grok could design it. I replied in the affirmative, and Grok kindly obliged. See what you think of it.
Ok, so this is not quite as simple as Grok coming back with a design in three seconds, because the whole enterprise needs choreographing - in this case by Jason. Nevertheless Grok can do most of the donkey work, thus making the job of a web designer much simpler and perhaps more rewarding. Jason might chip in, to explain the process in more detail.
So what do you think?
ralphellis.uk
Cheers,
Ralph Ellis
*** The Spherical Earth in Antiquity ***
My previous TwiX speculated that the Bablyonian Ark was actually a good description of the Earth floating in space. After all, this is exactly what the Earth is - a spherical Ark carrying all known plants and animals, floating across the Celestial Seas of Nu.
One of the objections to this interpretation, is that the ancients did not understand that the Earth was a sphere. But this is completely incorrect. I have already given the example of the Avebury Earth, which depicted the Earth as circular or spherical. Then we have Eratosthenes, who calculated the size of a spherical Earth back in the 3rd century BC. Then we have the 1st century Nazarene Jewish Hamat Zodiac on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.
The Hamat Zodiac clearly depicts Helios-Sun holding a spherical Earth in his gravitational grasp. This Earth is light on one side and dark on the other, which indicated that this is a sphere. Plus the golden lines of latitude and longitude are curved, which would only occur on a sphere.
It is clear that the spherical nature of the Earth was well known in these early era, which is why I think the Babylonian Ark represented the Earth floating in space, the same as the Hamat Zodiac does. It is only in recent eras that some retards, like the Gormless Gnostic, have degenerated back to believing in a flat earth.
Note: Classical history will say that the Hamat Zodiac is 3rd century, but the precessional date it depicts is AD 10, while Josephus Flavius tells the story of himself trying to destroy this zodiac.
Images:
a. The Hamat Zodiac's spherical Earth.
b. The circular (spherical) Avebury Earth.
Ralph Ellis
*** The Babylonian Ark of the Earth ***
In his book ‘The Ark before Noah’, Irving Finkel describes the shape of the Babylonian Ark of Noah, which is strangely circular. Not unreasonably, Finkel interprets this Ark as being a huge coracle - a coracle large enough to hold all the world’s animals during the great flood.
The Ark before Noah.
amazon.co.uk/Ark-Before-Noah…
But is this the correct interpretation?
Do remember that nearly all of these ancient stories were tales of the Cosmos - the acts of the gods in the heavens above. I have already interpreted the Egypto-Israelite Ark in Genesis as being the Ark of Ra that sailed the cosmic seas of Nu (from which we derive Noah - the Aramaic Nuach). And I have reinterpreted the Gilgamesh epic as the constellation of Orion battling with Taurus, as the precessional equinox changed from the Great Month of Taurus to the Great Month of Aries in 1750 BC.
So is the Babylonian Coracle-Ark also a cosmic tale?
Quite possibly, and we can see this in the dimensions of their Ark. This circular Ark has a 3,600 stanchions or uprights, it has 30 ribs, and it has a circumference of 14,400 bm. (The unit of measure is not given so I have used bm, denoting a Babylonian meter or more esoterically, perhaps a Babylonian mile.) So what size and shape of Ark would this give us?
The first thing I noticed was that the 14,400 bm may well be a geodetic measure, thus we might be talking miles rather than meters. The real Earth measures 21,600 nautical miles (nm) in circumference, with each nm measuring one minute of arc at the equator (ie: 360 degrees x 60 minutes). So if this was a cosmic tale of a cosmic Ark-Earth, then each bm would measure 1.5 minutes of arc or 1.5 nautical miles (ie: 14,400 bm x 1.5 = 21,600 nm).
While the stanchions or uprights may refer to longitudes, as we have just seen, the ribs may refer to lines of latitude - because each of these units is related to the 360 degrees in the circumference of a circle. So instead of our modern convention of 90º of latitude to reach a pole, the cosmic Ark-Earth had just 30º. (The archaic geometric convention of 360º in a circle was derived from the 360 days in a year, so each terrestrial day delineates one degree of arc around the Sun.)
If this is so, then the Babylonian Ark is an image of the Earth. And the Earth is indeed a spherical ’ship’ floating in the cosmic waters of Nu - a vast Ark that holds all the animals and humans created by the gods, whether two-by-two or thousand-by-thousand. So the Babylonian flood may not be a description of the 7th millennium BC Black Sea flood, it is rather a story of the Earth bobbing up and down on the Sea of Nu as it floats around the Sun. And the cosmic bird that flew from the Ark of Earth was the phoenix, which has previously been interpreted as a fiery meteor.
Thus the original flood myth was a story of terrestrial metrology and celestial mechanics. And thus one Babylonian mile (bm) = 2,770 meters.
The same is true of the Avebury henge, which also displays the Earth as a circular cosmic Ark bobbing up and down on the great cosmic ocean of Nu.
Images:
a. The Babylonian Ark of the Earth.
b. The quaint classical coracle Ark.
c. The Avebury Ark of the Earth.
Ralph Ellis
Note how one degree of the Babylonian Earth is 1/10th of our one degree (a 3,600th of Earth circumference, instead of a 360th).
If the circumference of the Babylonian Earth is 14,400 bm, this means that every Babylonian degree measures FOUR bm (Babylonian miles). Or SIX modern Nautical miles.
This is all cartographical.
Much the same as we use to this very day.
Ralph
*** The Lies Solar Power Proponents Tell ***
Lying is now endemic in society, because Climatists and especially Solarists have joined a new religion. And that religion needs supporting and defending at all costs, even if that means throwing your hard-won personal integrity into the waste bin. These are some of the many the lies that UK-based solarists have been telling me (with my reply to follow each comment).
....My solar panels generate electricity all through the winter.....
Sure, with enough energy to power your iPhone.
....I run my entire house on solar, even in winter.....
Sure, but you run your heating on wood, gas, or grid-powered electric heat pumps. Yes, solarists will conceal that embarrassing fact from the conversation, until the bitter end.
....We have battery storage for winter breakfasts and evening meals....
That is a lie. Winter generation is not strong enough to charge up a home battery. Solarists will not be running morning showers and kettles on battery power.
.... I am not lying, we generated 50 kWh over winter last year....
Sure, but 50 kWh is only one or two days of winter usage (see data below). So this solarist generated energy for only two out of 100 days, from their solar power array.
Remember, solar generation reduces considerably in winter, in the UK. Firstly, because the hours of sunshine reduces right down to about only five hours of useful generation. Secondly, because the sun may only be 12-15° above the horizon at midday, so the atmosphere is blocking most of the sunlight. Thirdly, because roof solar panels are angled for summer, not winter. Fourthly, because the UK is often overcast in winter, in which case solar generation will fall off a cliff.
A large solar array for a UK 3-bed house, will be about 25 m². This will comfortably generate 20 kWh in summer, but only 5 kWh in winter, and a risible 1 or 2 kWh on an overcast winter's day. So a solar array in summer with a power-wall backup, will comfortably keep the house provided with energy. But in winter, those generation figures fall woefully below the energy required to power and heat the average UK 3-bed home.
A typical three bed UK house can truck along on 7 - 10 kwh per day in summer; but that might shoot up to 30 - 40 kwh in a cold winter (with heat-pump), or 40 - 60 kwh (no heat pump). Especially if you have an older house with inadequate insulation, as can be found in many UK properties. Or even if it is very cold outside, and your air-source heat pump is no longer working efficiently.
As you can see, anyone saying they can power their house with solar power in the winter in the UK, is lying to you in some fashion. They will use evasion, misrepresentation, omission, or direct bare faced lies. Whatever route they choose, you know they are lying because the UK is 249th out of 250 world locations for solar suitability (see the graph).
Worse still, solarists will rejoice and boast about getting energy credits during the summer, to reduce their energy bills. But will expect to be able to leach off the grid during winter, when their solar power is not running. Remember that another separate generation system has to be sitting on standby, to bail out the solarists. An extra generation system that the rest of us have to pay for. An extra generation system that by definition will double the overall cost of electricity. (A system sitting on standby, will always double or triple the cost of its output.)
(Note: Solar power may make sense in Spain or California, but it does not in the UK. But even Spain and California will need a week of stored energy backup, which they don't have. California leaches fossil fuel power from neighbouring States, when their Unreliables fail.)
UK Solarists have joined a cult, and to justify their decision their cult needs supporting and reinforcing every day - by paying homage to the CO2 molecule and genuflecting before high-priest Greta the Gremlin. Although their high priest has now moved onto other left-wing grifts, like Palestinians. But do note that high-priest Greta never complains about the hundreds of thousands of Christians being massacred and taken as sex slaves in Azerbaijan, Syria, Nigeria or Sudan. For some strange reason the Looney Left of politics loves Islam, but hates Christianity and especially despises Judaism - they have enthusiastically taken up the antisemitic baton passed to them by Hitler, to become the true heirs to Socialist Nazism.
See the video in the previous TwiX, which covers many of these topics.
Images:
a. No winter solar power (yellow) in the UK.
b. UK 249th out of 250 regions, for solar suitability.
Ralph Ellis
