ANCIENT SPOOKS
Part III:
Link to a Spooky Past
By Gerry, July 2018
The Many Cities Tarshish
Solomon also invested in the ships of Tarshish, from Isaiah’s and Ezekiel’s Laments for Tyre.
Chronicles says that Solomon and Hiram sent ships of Tarshish to Tarshish ( 2 CHRON 9:21), which
then bring home gold, silver, ivory, apes and peacocks every three years. Kings only says that the
ships were of Tarshish ( 1 KING 10:22). Later, king Jehoshaphat in Chronicles sends ships to Tarshish ( 2 CHRON 20:36), while Kings tells the story as ships of Tarshish going to Ophir from Ezion-Geber at
the Gulf of Aqaba ( 1 KING 22:48). Jonah embarks to Tarshish from Mediterranean Jaffa ( JONAH 1:3), so
it can’t be the same place. The Tarshish from Ezekiel’s Lament for Tyre is then even translated as
“Carthage” in the Greek Septuagint (Καρχηδόνιοι, in EZE 27:12, EZE 27:25, EZE 38:13). So where is
Tarshish, and why do they all confuse it? Obviously, the many Biblical occurrences of Tarshish describe different locations, so there’s a lot of speculation about the actual location: Tarsus in
Cilicia, Tarsos and Kato Tarsos in Ancient Corinth, Tartessos in Spain, and others. But we’ll see
later that the network of Phoenician colonies was quite extensive. And since colonists of all times
recycled names of their ports of origin (York and New York), I’d say Tarshish might well be ALL of
these locations together, and possibly more! All have links to Phoenicia: Cilician Tarsus traded with
Phoenicia, and is in that pocket of Anatolia where Phoenician script popped up after The Collapse.
Corinth owed much of its culture to the Phoenicians, and also traded extensively with the Phoenicians.And Tartessos was apparently a larger region controlled by Phoenicia in Spain.
However, where was a mother city for all those Tarshish colonies? In Isaiah’s lament, mighty Tyre
is called a daughter of Tarshish ( ISA 23:10), just like it’s called a daughter of Sidon ( ISA 23:12). So, the
Mother-Tarshish would be one of the most powerful Phoenician city-states, located somewhere in
the Phoenician heartland! English Wiki gives a clue: “ Tarshish (Lebanon) is the name of a village in Lebanon”. If the name still floats around there, Ancient Tarshish might have been close by. On a
map you can see both Tarchich and neighboring Maj Tarchich on hills overlooking Beirut, halfway on the path towards the trade hub Baalbek. This would be a prime location to log valuable
cedar wood, and cut it into pieces from which to assemble the ships in their future ports. “Ships of
Tarshish” would then have been a synonym for these high-quality vessels. Apparently, some ancient
ship types were even built for disassembly and reassembly, as evidenced by the Egyptian Khufu Ship. Egyptians used cedar ships that could be assembled and disassembled for their Punt expeditions as early as the Old Kingdom period, roughly 2000 BC. It’s possible that Jehoshaphat’s
ships came from the Phoenician Mother-Tarshish in pieces, and were assembled at Ezion-Geber ( 1 KING 22:48).
If there was an ancient ship-building facility at today’s humble Tarchich, it could yield fascinating
insights. Lebanon is dotted with Tells where even archaic Neolithic settlements are excavated. But
to my knowledge, no excavation has been conducted at Tarchich. Why? 26s
You perhaps noticed that Tarshish is also a family name, and a party founded by what appears to be
an Israeli fake terrorist. The name seems connected to top spook aristocrats. What does it mean?
Many terms are offered to misdirect, but there’s a straightforward one: tor shish (שיש תר) ,a white
dove! The spelling is identical to the last letter: TRŠYŠ–TR ŠYŠ, תרשיש–שיש תר .Recall that
Jonah embarked to Tarshish ( JONAH 1:3). What does the name Jonah mean? Dove. Another word,
same bird. “Dove” embarked to “White Dove”.
Would there be any Phoenician depictions of doves? Amazingly: Yes! And they even used it for
something we rarely catch them at: spirituality. The baby boy from Sidon’s Eshmun temple seems
to hold a dove, though it’s photographed from an angle where you can barely make it out. However,
there’s another baby boy from the same temple where the dove in his hand is well visible. Late Palmyra used the same symbolism. There are also votive steles from Carthage with doves on them.
In our collective memory, the white dove is associated with Noah’s ship-building, with the Holy
Spirit of Christianity, and with peace in general. Is there something wrong if pagans used the same
symbol? I’d say no. The dove clearly doesn’t stand for Tarshish in these depictions. The Phoenician
artists only used it to express what they and their customers believed in. I think religions and
cultures may share symbols, while differing in other aspects of their beliefs, so to me this is not a
problem.
But we shouldn’t forget that the Punic people were professional punkers, and loved their symbols to
have more than one meaning. The “white dove” might have been popular with them because it was
both: A spiritual symbol, and also the name of a major city-state, whose ships enabled them to
colonize of the entire known world. Homing pigeons might have helped with colonization, and were already used in Ancient Mesopotamia. The Latin word for dove is “columbus”. It may be dawning
on us why many Tells in Lebanon are left unexcavated. More surprises may be slumbering there.
The ŠLM Family of Names
As Solomon and Hiram have almost no family members given, we cannot search there for a
Phoenician-Israelite genealogy. The mightiest tool that remains to us are name similarities, because
the aristocrats are so fond of their names, they insert them into all historical records, even religious
ones, as we saw. When I looked for names similar to “Solomon”, I noticed something odd…
In Hebrew, Solomon is written ŠLMH (שלמה .(The first similarity is that to Jerusalem, written YRWŠLM (ירושלם) .The ancient name of Jerusalem is theorized to be Salem, as a city from
Abraham’s time is called Salem. That would explain why so many towns all over the world were named Salem, not the least of which is Miles’ famous witch-hoax Salem. Jerusalem is ancient,
settled around 4500 BC.
Solomon and Jerusalem share the ŠLM word root (שלם) ,meaning peace, prosperity, completeness, alliance, and related things. It’s also a name of God, as those in my previous list! I counted 15 ŠLM
names in the Bible, indexed by Strong from 8004 Salem(שלמ) to 8022 Shalmaneser (שלמנסר). The last two, ŠLMN (שלמן (and ŠLMNSR(שלמנסר) ,are interesting, as they are Assyrian kings.
There are five known Assyrian kings called Shalmaneser. The Biblical king is thought to be Shalmaneser V who reigned 727–722 BC. The first Assyrian Shalmaneser was Shalmaneser I who
lived 1274–1245 BC and left inscriptions: Among his officials, another name with the ŠLM root
appears: Šulmanu-qarrad. What’s “Šulmanu”?
Shulmanu is explained as a god of “underworld, fertility, and war” – closely related concepts! And
all Semitic peoples worshiped him. Then there’s the bold claim that he was found in 2000 BC. But
there’s no real record of that god anywhere!
The earliest Mesopotamian ŠLM name I found is Suhlamu, an Assyrian king from the list of “kings who lived in tents”, who lived before 2000 BC. That’s the number they cited, but it’s a king, not a
god! Another is king Shalim-ahum who reigned ca. 1900 BC. So, my take is that it wasn’t really a
god, just an aristocratic name.
Wikipedia says Shulmanu is known from Phoenician Sidon. Is that Phoenician Shulmanu found
somewhere? While the ŠLM family even has its own Wikipedia page, few members are listed. A
mythology book provides a much better summary of the ŠLM names from all over the Fertile
Crescent and beyond. But I found more: There’s a Canaanite deity Shalim. and Salman, a god
worshiped in Arabia. The name frequently appears in epigraphic texts dedicated “to Salman”, varied
as masculine, feminine, singular, dual, plural, diminutive in Sabean and Qatabanic inscriptions. The
heyday of Saba and Qataban came after Solomon opened these trade routes, so here the ŠLM deity
appeared after the ŠLM rulers. It’s therefore speculated that Salman was perhaps a deified hero. In
Part IV, we’ll find ŠLM names in Greece.
Are there more links to Phoenicia? Shulmanu is “ known from Bronze Age inscriptions at Sidon”. I
tracked that down to Louvre exhibit AO 1759, the “Abdmiskar Offering” dated 200-150 BC, found on the Louvre website, , with a larger image here, a transcript here.The given translation is:
This is the offering which Abdmiskar made, acting chief of the assembly, second in command,
son of Baalsaloh, to his lord Shalman. May he bless him!
hmnḥt aš ytn obdmskr rb obr lspt rb šny bn bolṣlḥ ladny lšlmn ybrk
המנחת אש יתן עבדמסכר רב עבר לספת רב שני בן בעלצלח לאדני לשלמן יברך
Unlike Shulmanu, Solomon and the Assyrian kings were historical persons. Are there historical
Phoenicians named ŠLM? Yes there are! Phoenician ŠLM name examples are Shelamin and BaalShalem. The name Baal-ŠLM even appears in Ugarit texts. A “Collection of Phoenician
inscriptions” cites more appearances of Baal-ŠLM. The name appears on ostraca. ŠLM-Baal
appears on Neo-Punic inscriptions and on amphorae. Are there even Phoenician kings named Baal-ŠLM? Yes there are! And it’s two kings of Phoenician Sidon, where Shalmanu was worshiped as a
god. They’re spelled Baal-ŠLM, which you could vowelize as Solom, Salem, Shalom. The official
reading is Baal-Shillem, which looks like a purposeful fudge. The names were found at the Eshmun temple in Sidon, , on an inscription dated roughly 400 BC, on the slab under the baby boy with the dove. A transcript can be found here.
This statue has been given by Baal-Shillem son of king Baana king of the Sidonians son of king
Aber-Amun king of the Sidonians son of king Baal-Shillem king of the Sidonians to the Lord to
Eshmun at fountain Ydil. May he be blessed!
hsml z ʾš ytn bʿlšlm bn mlk bʿnʾ mlk ṣdnm bn mlk ʿbrʾmn mlk ṣdnm bn mlk bʿlšlm mlk
ṣdnm lʾrny lʾšmn bʿn ydl ybrk
הסמל ז אש יתן בעלשלם בן מלך בענא מלך צדנם בן מלך עבראמן מלך צדנם בן מלך
בעלשלם מלך צדנם לארני לאשמן בען ידל יברך
I’m not claiming that the members of the ŠLM family are literally related. But they prove a wider
connection between Ancient Israel and Ancient Phoenicia, and other regions beyond. And the
different vowelizations of the very same letters ŠLM prove that the elites don’t want us to see that!
Answered Questions
Before we spread out too much, let’s stop for a moment, and think about what all this really means.
Why Phoenicia? Why that region? Why the connection of spookery and trade? I will share here my
grand theory, my attempt to explain it all. I haven’t had the time to fully research the pre-Biblical
periods yet, so it’s just a working hypothesis.
It goes thus:
The ancestors of our modern spooks were the top ruling families of Ancient Phoenicia,
and of the Ancient Fertile Crescent at large, who united into one single bloc through
their economic and family ties, ruled via trade and resource monopolies, and then rolled
out this system to the rest of the planet, in the first big step via naval colonization
originating from Ancient Phoenicia.
Why this specific theory?
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that spookery can be traced back to the Fertile Crescent, and
Phoenicia specifically. Their region was blessed with a hot climate, fertile soil, plus abundant water
through seasonal flooding of Nile, Euphrates and Tigris. But to harness that, and overcome flood
and drought seasons, the people had to build vast irrigation canal networks. And for that, they had to
work together in very large collectives, and so formed these collectives earlier than others, out of
necessity. They thus had a head start on civilization as we define it: With large settlements came
specialization, and tools, and complex administration, and writing. And steep hierarchies. And a
more powerful aristocracy.
Miles found out that spookery didn’t start with the CIA, but goes back unchanged for centuries.
And if I was to single out the one piece of new information we got out of all the ancient punnery I
found, then I’d say it’s this: Spookery goes back almost unchanged for millennia! The spooks who
rule our world reference Ancient Israel. It was surely a great country, but never looked overly
advanced or powerful to me. I always wondered how all this weirdness could have evolved from
there. Now I have replaced Ancient Israel with Ancient Phoenicia. Is that any better?
I think Yes! I think it makes a huge difference if we replace “Ancient Israel” with “Ancient
Phoenicia” or the “Ancient Fertile Crescent” to include Mesopotamia and Egypt: These regions
were indeed advanced and powerful, the most advanced and powerful of their time! The Ancient
Spookians were not humble nomads, but almighty kings and overlords. Power simply begets
more power!
If we would assume that the world was really conquered by top dogs from above, and not by
underdogs from below, then we could answer some recurring questions which always puzzled me
about those lazy, sloppy, silly spook aristocrats, who are mostly bumbling along, faking their
deaths:
• How did these people get so insanely powerful? Answer: They didn’t! They were ultra powerful already in the Bronze Age, and have mostly inherited that.
• How did these people get so insanely wealthy? Answer: They didn’t! They were ultra wealthy already in the Bronze Age, and have mostly inherited that.
• How did these people erect a global empire? Answer: They didn’t! They had a global
empire already in the Bronze Age, thanks to the Phoenician monopoly on durable wood and
ship-building technology, and have mostly inherited that.
• How did these people overcome all opposition? Answer: They didn’t! There never was any
meaningful opposition. Once the aristocracies of the most advanced civilizations made a
pact and formed a bloc, the rest of humanity was toast.
• How did these people conquer all the world? Answer: They didn’t! They were rich enough
to simply buy under-developed regions from local rulers, and let these rulers join the gravy train, by grafting them onto the global family tree.
• How did these people manage to avoid leaving incriminating written evidence? Answer:
They didn’t! They didn’t have to! People outside the Fertile Crescent hadn’t even invented
script. All people who could read and write were either in-the-know aristocrats from the
Fertile Crescent, or their clerks. A few puns would suffice to deter literate commoners.
[And by the time of later history, as now, such a pile of confusing and tangled data had
accumulated that no one could sort through it.]
• How did these people manage to achieve the power and wealth they had in the Bronze Age?
Answer: They didn’t! That’s simply a “regular” aristocratic inheritance, that likely goes
back into pre-history. The first ziggurats and pyramids were erected already under their
cushioned royal behinds!
It seems these loafers never ever really achieved anything in the entirety of history. Aliens from
outer space could check off this planet as “confirmed” for the power-begets-power hypothesis. I
think the only three things the spook aristocracy ever “invented” were:
1. Global Trade.
2. How to scam their subjects.
3. After millennia of intra-aristocratic bickering and backstabbing, how to achieve some sort of
truce among each other, while continuing to scam their subjects.
You’ll notice that this requires very little technology. The only required ingredients are humans,
available since the Apeman Age. So the aristocrats had, and likely needed, many millennia of
prehistory to get their act together. Script was invented for inventory lists, because temple
bureaucrats couldn’t keep track any more of all the stuff and people they controlled. “Regular” top down corruption and scamming was thus likely already invented in prehistory.
Naturally, this does not mean that all of history, or civilization, is false or fake. The un-recorded
history of us little people is genuine. We carried the civilization that archaeologists excavate. And
only a tiny part of recorded history is false, namely the part that portrays rich and powerful people
as independent, while they’ve really long since agglutinated into one global blob of hoaxdom.
I don’t know when that inter-aristocratic pact formed, but I think it was in historic times. Writing
letters may have helped with relations among aristocrats of different regions. But I think the
institution that ultimately allowed these connections was likely another one: Global Trade. There’s
nothing bad about trade in general. But global trade, of things not easily substituted, turns quickly
into a global monopoly, as it hands the key to entire nations to groups of rich and powerful people.
Remember that I claimed the Fertile Crescent was blessed with hot climate, abundant water and
fertile soil? Well, those were the only things it had, plus clay. Mesopotamia was very resource poor—even stone and wood had to be fetched from far away. I think that’s why Fertile Crescent
people traded very far, very early. As with their large settlements, this was a necessity.
It’s amazing what distances were covered by trade even in archaic times. A famous example is Ancient Egypt’s import of lapis lazuli from Afghanistan, attested as early as 3000 BC during the reign of 1st dynasty pharaoh Djer! Mediterranean Bronze may have been traded from Great Britain. may have been
traded from Great Britain. Later classical Greek and Roman elites clothed themselves in silk from China. Global trade like this would have started as a chain of many intermediaries, but if wares
could travel along these chains, informations, people and aristocratic spookery could as well.
How was this trade organized? Trade “agreements” are among the first attested international
contracts. Local rulers had to give merchants of the great city-states free passage, extraterritorial
rights, and compensation if they were robbed, because the roads hadn’t been made safe enough!
The lopsidedness of this “free” trade is seen clearly in Kanesh, an early Assyrian merchant colony ( karum )in Hittite Anatolia: Local rulers had to recompense Assyrian merchants for any robbery, but
if Assyrian merchants themselves were caught with crimes, they could always be bailed out. The
local ruler also had to vouch for his peoples’ debt and turn them over as debt-slaves, while indebted Assyrians enjoyed special protection. Then as now, grand merchants and investors carried virtually
no risk, while pocketing the same “risk” premium as smaller competitors! [debt slaves...exact same thing the communist FDR hoisted upon the American people in 1933...wake up from your slumber people DC]
It was a global trend: Other “Free” Trade Zones swallowed up the cities around them and became the actual government. Why does the Code of Hammurabi hang in the US Congress? Because like
many laws and contracts from the time, it contained just such “Free” Trade provisions shielding financiers and owners from risk, burdening governors instead, who then tax it from “the people”:
§23. If the highwayman has not been caught, the man that has been robbed shall state on oath
what he has lost and the city or district governor in whose territory or district the robbery took
place shall restore to him what he has lost.
Not saying Hammurabi was as bad a ruler as today’s congressmen. In theory his laws would also
benefit small merchants. But his allegiances were clearly with the rich and ultra-rich folks, his
peers. I haven’t yet decided if he was part of the global “spook” system, but signs are there: Just
like the Bible narrative concentrates on Hebrew nomads, Hammurabi’s family is cast as Amorites,
another nomadic people from the Levant, who had conquered mighty Babylon, but allegedly “waged war on each other for control of fertile agricultural land”, as if they were still shepherds.
Judging from his laws, they were anything but. The name Hammurabi also occurs with rulers of neighboring merchant empires, most notably Ugarit, just North of later Phoenicia. Coincidentally,
roughly at the time of the Babylonian and Ugarit Hammurabi's, Egypt had been conquered by so called Hyksos, also from the Levant and traditionally styled as violent axe-swinging “shepherd kings”. Archeology is increasingly deconstructing that made-up image, showing they were really merchants and traders. And as usual, destruction layers are missing for alleged destructions.
If I were to give a date at which some global pact between top aristocrats was made, I’d say it was
somewhere around 1600 BC, when apparently aristocrats from the Levant had achieved, or been
given, reign over both Mesopotamia and Egypt. I still don’t know what exactly happened there. I
suppose Levantine merchant princes were the initiators, but it was likely not a drive-by takeover as
later with the illiterate Europeans. I hypothesize it to be some merger, with all aristocratic parties
bringing some tradition to the table: Egyptian and Mesopotamian templars their bureaucracies, and
Levantine operators their global reach.
These links to Mesopotamia and Egypt may be today downplayed even towards lesser
spooklings, judging from Hammurabi’s controversial “rediscovery” and from the way Gardiner’s
harmless transcriptions are buried. But there might be a wealth of archaic scamming practices
inherited from those advanced empires: Did you know that Mesopotamian elites early on invented
the custom to switch their king for an actor double, called “substitute king” (šar pūḫi), who
wouldn’t rule but merely enact the king to the public? As with the Nazir, that actor was serving a fixed term. He was officially of low birth and would later be killed (or fake-killed: deported). Talk
about actors who fake their own death. We don’t even need to mention Egyptian rulers, who
regularly impersonated gods.
So, I think aristocrats all over the world had invented their own ways of scamming their subjects,
and may have combined them. Ultimately though, spookdom chose as its dominant mode of
governing the “merchant prince” scam: global trade monopolies, monetized through wars and
crises, manufactured or created by willful negligence. Why? I think we already know: The
traditional temple bureaucracies were deceptive and unfair, but stable. If they taxed away the loafer
premium for the aristocrats directly, commoners would passively resist, and over time figure out
ways to hide their stuff. But with periodic wars and crises, people were caught off-guard. And with
a global monopoly, they would then have no choice but to actively go to the economic overlords
and voluntarily hand over everything they had, for food. We read it in Part I.
That was my personal explanation. You don’t have to like it or believe it. If you have another good
explanation, all the better. To confirm or refute it, I’ll have to dig deeper into the archaic times. But
whatever the real explanation, I think it has something to do with aristocrats acting as merchants
and financiers, and with them somehow working together, as these are the central discoveries of
Miles.
The Unanswered Question
So I developed this theory of spookery coming from Ancient Phoenicia, and not Ancient Israel. I
think it answers some questions, as outlined above. However, it opens up a new question: If Ancient
Israel was not the actual, ultimate identity of the Ancient Spooks, if the Ancient Hebrews were
spooked just like the rest of us, then why do we have all these references to Israel?
This is not about if the spooks would lie to us, or assume fake identities, or falsify their own history.
Yes, yes, yes, they’d do all these things, and they’ve done them innumerable times. However, the
Bible verses I cited that contain puns or references to Phoenicia, were obviously cherry-picked. For
the most part, the Bible seems to be what it says on the tin. But aristocrats are self-absorbed, and
want every little tidbit of history to be about themselves. Why would they use a Biblical nation as a
mask, and promote Biblical scripture to be the central pivot point of history, if it wasn’t about
themselves? [Hence the murder of Michael over 2000 years...to fulfill the scriptures DC]
I have to admit that for a while I thought the crypto-“Jewish” shtick was a deep-state internal scam,
played on half-in-the-know lesser spooks. When I first saw the cheerful dopeyness of fake event
crisis actors on video, I thought that in addition to extra pay, they had been brainwashed into
believing it was for a non-corrupt cause. Like they’re humanity’s secret shepherds who bring about
a holy kingdom, even though their “kings” really conquered the planet millennia ago. Well, I don’t
think that any more. You can’t employ people to scam humanity and prevent them from realizing
they’re scammed themselves. You’re not that gullible, are you, spooklings? You know you’re
working for corrupt descendants of self-proclaimed merchant princes and god kings, right?
So my central explanation is still that the Bible has simply been heavily edited and censored before
it was frozen into its current form. I hope you can at least consider that possibility, after all I’ve
shown you. Ancient Israel and Ancient Phoenicia were neighbors and shared most of their culture
and language. Virtually all Hebrew names are also Phoenician names, and the few “Baal” names
that aren’t have been censored. Stories that were too “Phoenician” may also have been censored,
like the Book of Solomon. The original version of the Bible may thus have been a very
“Phoenician” one.
Other than that, I don’t know. I won’t say “I have no idea”, because I have tons of ideas. Only not
much evidence, with most records “lost”. I have, however, still found some links between Israel and
Phoenicia. I’ll share these here with you, since there’s nothing bad about good relations between
two neighboring countries. The bad thing is what the spooks have made out of it.
The Link across the Fertile Crescent
One clue is that both Phoenicia and Israel use symbolisms of neighboring Mesopotamia and Egypt.
For many historians, partnership and trade are mostly unmentioned non-events, sadly. But it seems
both Phoenicia and Israel were highly integrated economically and culturally with the entire Fertile
Crescent, and with each other. If Israel was a lot “like” Phoenicia, it might have become an
acceptable substitute identity for the spooks.
In today’s world, only the Phoenician-“Jewish” part is left. But especially Egyptian symbols were
there in the early days. It may be copying for commercial purposes, but it also shows that the
Phoenicians had not obliterated their mighty neighbors. Rather, they were all linked. Egyptian elites
mounted their own trade expeditions and colonization ventures, before classical Phoenicia.
Sarcophagi from Ancient Phoenicia and Ancient Israel. Have you seen this style anywhere before?
Another great example is the Sidonian Eshmunazar sarcophagus from about 500 BC. The script is
Phoenician, but note the goatee, headdress and the falcon on the shoulder. Similar sarcophagi were found in Gaza, , Israel, dated 1300 BC. Can you guess which nation’s style the sarcophagi exhibit?
My answer would be: Egypt! And I don’t think this was shallow copying. The aristocrats likely
understood many of the puns. There’s a 4th century BC woman on a sarcophagus from Carthage, in
Greek style, but with a falcon on her head. I’d say it’s a pun: The Egyptian word for Horus is ḥr, but
the same word ḥr also means face. The spelling is even interchangeable. That’s not a coincidence:
This type of falcon has a very distinctive white face. As you can see from the examples, “face” in
ancient Egyptian had the meaning of English “head”: highest, topmost, the head guy who’s heading
something. ḥr also means “appearance”, so it might pun with fakery. I haven’t figured out many
Egyptian puns, but many Fertile Crescent aristocrats seem to have used them.
Two artifacts are of special importance for Israel: Hezekiah’s seals. There are so many exaggerated
expectations heaped onto Ancient Israel that every excavated artifact is immediately alleged to be a forgery. I honestly can’t tell, so let’s just analyze what the artists, whoever they were, wanted to say.
While Hezekiah’s father Ahaz has his seal on Wikipedia, Hezekiah’s own seal has no entry. There is
one misleading photograph of an older find without imagery. You can imagine why they’d want to
hide the imagery of the newer finds: The symbols are Egyptian again!
The first seal impression features the Winged Sun Disc, plus Egyptian Ankh symbols left and right.
The second one has an Egyptian-style Winged Scarab which is even holding up its little ball. More impressions of the same seal have been found. Naturally, Phoenician seals are also full of Egyptian
iconography. I found one dated 600 BC inscribed L-BLTH, “of Baal-Tah”.
Hebron LMLK jar handle (top), Hezekiah’s 2 seals (middle), Phoenician seal (bottom) I think that these seals are either genuine, or at least convey a genuine truth: The entire Levant,
including Israel and Phoenicia, had deep cultural and economic ties to both Mesopotamia and
Egypt. Judging from what Miles has found out, there were also deep family ties among the
aristocracy.
Is there more? While old papyrus records were burned with the palaces, cuneiform tablets harden in
fire, so incriminating internal records might have been preserved in ancient merchant cities like
Palmyra, Ugarit, Mari, Ebla. We are sure to find more buried links as we dig deeper into archaic
history. As will the spooks themselves, who seem to be in a hurry.
The City Zion
Ancient Phoenicia and Ancient Israel were also closely linked through a city. I am going to show
you that one major city of Israel very likely had a twin city in Phoenicia. They even shared a
common name, which meant “Phoenicia”. I am talking about Zion. This doesn’t concern the
religious meaning of Zion. The Zion that people believe in is simply just that. This is about the
aristocrats, and about explaining why they like the term so much. Zion is said to be a synonym for Jerusalem, and thus for Israel. The first oddity is that this is nowhere stated explicitly. Zion is first
introduced when David conquers a fortress with that name:
Then David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (that is, Jebus); and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of
the land, were there. 1 CHRON 11:4
The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You shall not enter here.” Nevertheless David captured
the stronghold of Zion (that is, the city of David). 1 CHRON 11:5
These two verses say that Jerusalem is Jebus, and that Zion is the city of David. That Jerusalem is
also Zion isn’t said here or anywhere else. Jerusalem and Jebus are brought up together numerous
times in the books Joshua, Judges, Samuel, but Zion is mentioned for the first time here. It’s also
mentioned for the last time as a physical location: one verse is copied in 2 SAM 5:7, and there’s one
mention in 1 KING 8:1 of the ark being carried out of Zion. But from then on, Zion ceases to be a
concrete location in actual events, and becomes an abstract poetic allegory for Jerusalem and the
holy land.
Most of all, the Zionists weren’t known as religious: They thought in terms of concrete plans,
profitability, and feasibility. From all the names of the ancient Jewish lands, why did they chose for
their movement the most abstract, most poetic, most religious: Zion? Why is the city and nation
called Zion so loved by ultra-rich aristocratic merchants, financiers and colonists who rule much of
the world? Here’s my theory: They secretly read it as Zidon, which was a city of ultra-rich
aristocratic merchants, financiers and colonists who ruled much of the world.
Zidon, or Sidon, stood for a global commercial empire, and is often understood to mean Phoenicia in the Bible, just like Canaan. Zidon was spelled ṢDN in early Phoenician inscriptions, but was
later vowelized to ṢYDWN. If you drop the D, then it becomes Zion, spelled ṢYWN. If you drop
the same D from the Zidonians (צידונים) ,i.e. the Phoenicians, they become the Zionists (ציונים!) The omission of the D works in Hebrew, Greek and Latin: צידון-ציון ,Σιδών-Σιων, Zidon-Zion. I use
the Z-spelling to demonstrate this. The modern Hebrew pronunciation of Tsade is “ts”.
Would they do that? Drop a central consonant? There’s a verse hinting they might’ve done just that.
the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob. PSALM 87:2 אהב יהוה שערי ציון מכל משכנות יעקב
Sounds unfair to those other places. But there’s more to this verse: Another word for “gates” is
“doors”: dalet(דלה) .Another word for “dwelling place” is “house”: bayit (בית) .Coincidentally, Dalet and Bet are also the Semitic letters D and B, derived from the very words and glyphs for
“door” and “house”. If we were to substitute those words, the sentence would read “...loves the D of
Zion more than the B of Jacob”. Only Zion didn’t have a D. Or did it, as Zidon?
Mt. Hermon, Mt. Zion and Mt. Zidon
The one piece of information about the fortress Zion is that it was invaded through some waterway ( 2 SAM 5:8), called zinur(צנור) .There is only one other occurrence of this word in the Bible, where
it’s translated as waterfalls, specifically those of Mount Hermon.
Even though Mount Zion is officially a hill at Jerusalem in the South, it is in one verse described as
being very high, and in the North.
Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, Is Mount Zion in the far north, The city of the
great King. PSALM 48:2
There’s a puzzling verse about Mount Hermon’s dew coming down on the “mountains of Zion”:
It is like the dew of Hermon coming down upon the mountains of Zion; For there the LORD
commanded the blessing– life forever. PSALM 133:3
Mount Hermon is high indeed, in the North, and close to Phoenician Zidon, but not to Jerusalem.
The verse is sometimes explained as dew evaporating in the North, and raining down in the South.
A second given explanation is that Zion here is a wrong spelling, or another name for Hermon, in
the Bible also named Senir, Sirion, Shion, all somewhat similar but not quite close to Zion and
Zidon. The most straightforward explanation is never given: That the mountains of Zion here are
really the mountains of Zidon, since that is where Hermon is actually located. Naturally dew from
Hermon would rain down on the lower mountains of Zidon.
If there are “mountains of Zidon”, is there also a Mount Zidon? Apparently, the answer is yes. It’s
mentioned in some texts, though it’s very few. Zidon still stands today, but with the Arabic name
Zaida, so the similarity is gone. Do local Lebanese folk perhaps call some peak Mount Zaida?
Hard to tell, because the Zidon municipality started to pile trash into a heap on the shore, dubbed “Mount Zaida” by the media, so all search engine hits to actual mountains are now literally buried
under tons of rubbish. Smart move.
Arabic histories of the crusades do mention a Mount Zaida though.One history of Lebanon places a Mount Zaida (صأيدا جأبل) in the Chouf (الأشوف) district bordering Zidon. If I translate the Arabic text correctly, another history citing the “Hanbali” scholar Ibn al-Jawzi relates how 500 Franks descended from Mount Zaida to attack Jezzine, which lies between Mount Hermon and Zidon.
The nephew of the Hungarian descended from Mount Zaida with 500 Franks to Jezzine
،وأما ابن أخت الهنكر فقصد جبل صيدا في خمسمائةٍ من الفرنج إلى جزين
What about ancient Hebrew texts? There’s a passage about the First Jewish-Roman War, found in a
chapter “Kings of the Second Temple” (שני בית מלכי דברי) inside a compendium, in some
versions of “De Bello Judaico” by Josephus, and in “Tredecim articuli fidei iudaeorum” citing
Josephus. Text and spelling vary, so I translate the best I can. The context seems to be about
Jerusalem’s elders fleeing from cruel Roman retribution after Eleazar son of Ananias has started the
hostilities.
They fled from Jerusalem when they saw the savagery of Nero’s Romans, escaped to Mount
Zidon and stayed there.
ברחו מירושלם כי יראו מנירון ומאכזריו רומיי וינוסו אל הר צידון וישבו שם
Quod cum uidissent seniores Israel et alii sapientes atos pii, fugerunt ab Hierusalem, timentes
Nerone and seuitiam Romanorum. Fugerunt autem at monte Zidon and manserunt ibi.
But Eleazar and all the bandits accompanying him heard about the assembled elders and leaders,
and that they were on Mount Zidon, and they went there, fought them, and destroyed of them a
great multitude.
וישמעו אלעזר וכל הפריצים הנלוי איו כי נסו זקני העם וראשיהם וכי הם בהר צידון וילכו
אליהם וילחמו בם וישחיתו מהם עם רב מאד
Porro cum audissent Eleazar and complices ei adhaerantes, quod fugissent seniores populi and
capita eorum, and quod essent in monte Zidon, abierunt ad eos, and pugnates contra eos,
interemer ut multum populum ex eis.
Seeing this, the leaders of Israel, the sages, and the pious fled Jerusalem, because they feared
Nero and the cruelty of the Romans. They fled to Mount Sidon and settled there.
When Eleazar and his rebels heard that the leaders and the heads of the people had fled to
Mount Sidon, they followed them there, fought them, and killed many of them.
What is that Mount Zidon they’re fleeing to? We’d expect a Mount Zidon to be close to Zidon and
Jezzine, somewhere around Mount Hermon. From Jerusalem, that’s three days travel. Does it make
sense for elders to flee from Jerusalem to the region of Zidon, and for their pursuers to immediately
find them there in the mountains?
Zidon Rabah and Zidon Haaretz
We can also locate that Mount Zidon in Hebrew texts: The book “Borders of Israel” (ארץ גבולות
ישראל) by Ibn Daud who lived 1110 BC equates a Mount Zidon Rabah (רבה צידון הר ,(meaning
“Great Zidon”, with a Mount Dshizin (דשיזין הר.)
...to the west of Mount Zidon Rabah (G) which is Mount Dshizin
למערב ממנו הר צידון רבה )ג( הוא הר דשיזין
The name Great Zidon also occurs in Joshua’s Biblical conquests ( JOSH 11:8, JOSH 19:28). Why was
Zidon great? It was probably 2 places: Sennacherib mentions on his prism that he conquered both Great Zidon and Little Zidon (Ṣi-du-un-nu rabû, Ṣi-du-un-nu ṣiḫru). It’s often explained by
saying that Zidon had a second settlement a little further inland, inland, as with Tyre. But if the 2 Zidon
settlements were next to each other as those of Tyre, would it make sense then to mention them
separately, while there is no mentioning anywhere of a Great Tyre or Little Tyre?
Dshizin in that text is probably an old spelling for Jezzine. Mount Zidon would then be at Jezzine,
an ancient merchant stronghold connecting Zidon to trade routes in the mountains. It’s the hometown of the humble storeowner father of Carlos Slim . (ŠLM family?), likely the world’s
wealthiest rags-to-riches biography faker. And curiously, Jezzine is famous for its impressive waterfalls.These would seamlessly connect to the dew of Mount Hermon coming down on the
mountains of Zion, and to the fortress of Zion being attacked through waterways or waterfalls. It
would also be a fitting location for “Little” Zidon, being smaller than coastal Zidon. But the book
Borders of Israel explicitly equates Dshizin with the “Great” Zidon, not the “Little” one.
From the city Zidon Rabah (Dshizin), which is at its northern end, returning southwards to
Ramah and the fortress of Tyre
מעיר צידון רבה )דשיזין( שהיא בקצהו הצפוני שב הנגבה לרמה ואל מבצר צור
So was Jezzin secretly “greater” than famous coastal Zidon? It’s possible, but I think not. Hebrew rab can also mean “great space”. And Akkadian ṣiḫru, translated as small, is close to siḫḫāru which denotes flat things such as a plate. My personal guess would thus be that rabû and ṣiḫru refer
to heights here: Upper Zidon and Lower Zidon, which would be Jezzine in the mountains, and
Zidon at the coast. It would be the right distance to share one name, and far enough to be mentioned
separately. The Phoenician names would be Zidon Rabah and Zidon Haaretz (צידון ,ארץ צידון
רבה ,(as the latter occurs in the Eshmunazar inscription.
If you look at Jezzine on a map, you’ll see that it sits on top of a mountain looking towards coastal
Zidon. Since those 500 Franks descended onto Jezzine from Mount Zidon, that would be the
mountain further up. It’s today called Taoumat Jezzine (جأزيأن تومأات) ,logged clean, and could be the
ancient Mount Zidon. The Zaida-Jezzine road would have been a Zidon-Zidon road.
Note that all these medieval texts say nothing about Zion, only that a Mount Zidon existed, and that
Jezzine was called Zidon Rabah. Why then are these texts buried, and this straightforward solution
for the puzzle of Sennacherib’s two Zidons hidden away? I say the spooks likely wanted to hide
Zidon Rabah and Mount Zidon, because people would notice a similarity with Zion and Mount
Zidon.
I’m wary of theories alleging that Biblical cities were all located someplace else, since so far I
found the geographies pretty consistent. But I’ll make an exception here: If Zion was really
identical to Jezzine or a settlement close to it, most of the oddities surrounding Zion would
evaporate: The dew of Hermon would fall on Mount Zidon. David would have conquered Jezzine
through its waterways and built his palace there, that’s why Solomon needed a new one for
Jerusalem.
Zion and Jerusalem
All the “synonymous parallelism” verses listing Zion and Jerusalem could be explained as well:
They would not be poetic parallels about one city, but about North and South of Israel. This would
mean that Ancient Israel extended a bit further to the north than is usually thought. Would that be so
terrible?
But there remains the question why the elders of Jerusalem would flee to Mount Zidon. Was it
perhaps really the elders of Zion, at Mount Zidon? I’m not yet ready to believe that Jerusalem was
someplace else, but maybe it’s a partial censoring? Except for David’s conquest, there are no verses
about Zion as a physical location. But maybe there were, in earlier versions. Maybe both cities were
important, with some stories taking place at Jerusalem, and some at Zion. Perhaps later editors
copied Jerusalem over all physical instances of Zion, just like they likely copied YHWH over divine
names that were too close to theophoric names. This doesn’t invalidate the stories, but it would be
serious censoring. Why would they do that? What is so terrible about Zion being found out to be
Zidon Rabah?
Obviously, the problem is that name and location of Zidon Rabah would put Ancient Israel very
close to Ancient Zidon. And why would that be so terrible? Is it because the Zidonians were Baal worshipers? No: The same deities were worshiped in Tyre, portrayed in the Bible as a friendly
neighbor to Israel. Zidonians and Tyrians are even often mentioned together, in the same verse. The
difference is that “Zidonians” was a general term for “Phoenicians”. If Zion was Zidon, then one
major city of Ancient Israel would be named “Phoenicia”! Even if this similarity was a
coincidence, as soon as it was known to the public, the following “terrible” thing would happen:
Whenever we detected scams of ultra-rich aristocratic merchants and financiers from the Levant,
they could call themselves “Jews” all they want – but these “Jews” couldn’t hide any more behind
their common-folk namesakes. No one would see humble Jews in these merchant princes. All their
political correctness protective screens would fizzle out, and their rags-to-riches camouflage with it.
We would look instead to Ancient Phoenicia, officially home region to ultra-rich aristocratic
merchants and financiers. And we’d find official colonization trails from there, into all of Europe
and beyond. I invite you all to see them for yourselves, in Part IV.
The Punny Rule of Spook Law
As a little preview to classical Roman times, I’ll offer one more explanation why the spooks would
hide behind Judaism specifically. I have concentrated on the conveniently indexed Bible so far, but
perhaps it is a mere sideshow. There’s the possibility is that the crypto-“Jewish” culture hijacking
by the spooks is not centered around the Biblical narrative, but around special crypto-“Jewish”
laws, which might really be written by and for spook aristocrats.
Since we’ve never found any trace of serious, deadly infighting among the spooks, I think there is
some institution that upholds the uneasy truce between these greedy, malevolent people. One clue is
that all so-called “Free” Trade “Agreements” call for special Investor-State Dispute Settlement panels, where wealthy lawyers can decide that ultra-rich investors are right, and any law
representing common people is wrong. The Investor-State-Disputes are then settled by having
money flow from the latter to the former. Why all the trouble for that? I think it’s because they’re
secretly relying on such panels for intra-aristocratic disputes. Conflicts may arise if spook clan A
wants to fleece a country’s budget through some scam, while spook clan B is running another scam
against the same country. They both have their moles all over the government, so who’s to tell
which clan ultimately owns the country? A settlement court with laws custom-tailored for ultra-rich
spooks could help them to peacefully decide who gets our money, without anybody getting hurt!
Jewish Law and “Jewish” Law
What if special laws like these have always existed, and were disguised by powerful aristocratic
spooks as “Jewish”, even though they are not helpful to ordinary Jews? I am not talking about the 7
Laws of Noah, or the 10 Commandments, or the 613 Mitzvot. I am talking about the immeasurably
vast body of legal expertise, commentaries and case studies that is preserved in both regular Jewish
and crypto-“Jewish” Halakhic tradition. Only a tiny part of it is compiled in Mishnah, Tosefta and
other written works, which are already running 1000s of pages. Yet even they are mostly
commentary, on things that are themselves not defined in public texts.
In a 2012 survey, 71% of Israelis stated that it’s “important” to study the Talmud, but only 16% did so I think nobody can blame them. This immense yet cryptic body of laws is often criticized, for
being “confusing and unintelligible”. But perhaps unfairly. Perhaps it was, just like the Code of
Hammurabi, primarily written for a very special target group: the super-rich and ultra-rich.
As the vocabulary is not defined, and even the commentaries are very condensed, it is hard to
discern what each paragraph is about. Some meanings might be hidden behind pun-words, but I
think it’s mostly just coded language, like modern legalese, without any word similarities.
Here’s one sample rule from Nedarim (Vows), which includes the pun-word for date palms. I give
a word-for-word translation, so you can appreciate the condensed style.
[vow] [from] [dates] [permitted] [honey] [dates] [from late-grapes] [permitted] [vinegar] [lategrapes] [Rabbi Yehuda Ben Beteira] [says] [all] [where] [outcome] [named] [on him] [and vow]
[his name] [forbidden] [output] [but sages] [allow] NEDARIM 53A:1
הנודר מן התמרים מותר בדבש תמרים מסתוניות מותר בחומץ סתוניות רבי יהודה בן בתירא
אומר כל ששם תולדתו קרויה עליו ונודר הימנו אסור ביוצא הימנו וחכמים מתירים
You can see it’s compacted to the point where you can hardly guess what they meant. Here’s the
official interpretation, in non-bold text, with only direct translations in bold:
One who vows that dates are forbidden to him is permitted to eat date honey. One who vows
that late grapes are forbidden to him is permitted to eat vinegar of late grapes. Rabbi
Yehuda ben Beteira says: In the case of any food that the name of its derivative is called
after its name, i.e., the liquid that emerges from it bears its name, e.g., date honey or vinegar of
late grapes, and one vows that the item itself, e.g., the grape, is forbidden to him, he is also
prohibited from consuming the liquid that emerges from it. But the Rabbis permit this.
It’s a totally harmless abstinence law, and I think the opinions of both the Rabbi and the sages are
acceptable. But we’d all agree that this rule is not overly useful or applicable, as very few people
would vow to abstain from dates or late grapes specifically, and unless they produced the honey or
vinegar themselves, they wouldn’t even know whether it came from dates or late grapes. They seem
to be citing a precedent case, but I cannot imaging anyone settling something like this in a court. If
it’s just a hypothetical case, I’d say they picked an unrealistic one. So the question is: Could the
same law be very useful and applicable to ultra-rich folks, if interpreted differently?
I chose this one as an example, because we know the aristocrats used the word tamar for dates and
palms as a pun, referring instead to merchants and trade.
Are the “late grapes”, sethav-nivot, also a pun? I have not found the second part nivot as grapes
anywhere. Rather, naveh and navot (נות (means “habitation” in the Bible, and it’s also the name of
a housing project in Jerusalem. It could stand for housing. The first part sethav (סתו) indeed means
autumn or winter. But the full word is in its 1st occurrence written M-STW-NYWT, like “from
winter housing”, and if you interpret the same letters differently, it could even be MST-W-NYWT,
“tribute and housing”, from missat (מסת) meaning tributes.
Either way, since tamarim as “trades” is a type of income, the grapes might be another type of
income. I found no pun for honey or vinegar, but we could interpret the liquids as revenue flows. If
we believe that the Nedarim are really about some kind of abstinence, and make a wild guess, the
unofficial meaning could perhaps be something like this:
If one party agreed to refrain from conducting trade, it is still permitted to receive trade profits.
If it agreed to refrain from conducting housing business, it is still permitted to receive rental
income. The attorney argued that if the revenue is booked in that party’s name, and the
agreement to refrain was also made in that party’s name, this should be forbidden, but the
judges allowed it.
Say you wanted to arbitrate among ultra-rich clans who have carved up the entire planet among
themselves and have a hard time refraining from trampling on each other’s turf. Such a law might
then be useful to settle borderline cases, where one clan derives profit indirectly from another clan’s
property. Of course, my Hebrew reading is poor, this is just a guess, and the Nedarim could really
be about another sort of contract, or just about dates and honey.
Phoenician Law
But my grand theory was about the Phoenicians, right? How does this tie in with the Phoenicians?
Phoenicia didn’t mint coins until very late. How did they store their vast riches? I think they
invested it mostly in all the chunks of our planet. Tablets from Ancient Mesopotamia already
contain detailed ownership certificates, exchange contracts and debt obligations. But to make this
work, you need a court to enforce them. Since the main economic center in ancient times was the
temple, this could’ve been done in the many temples the Phoenicians set up.
A Punic sacrificial tariff was excavated from the harbor in Marseille. It likely stood in a temple, as
the text begins with “Temple of the Lord” (בעל בת .(Overall, it’s relatively long for a Phoenician
text that is suffered to exist. French Wikipedia has a very short entry with a photo. A transcript is here.
First the two governors are listed: Hilles-Baal ben Bod-Tanit and Hilles-Baal ben Bod-Eshmun,
not officially related, haha. After that, the tariff specifies payments and animal parts to be given to
priests who carry out ritual slaughter of sacrificial animals for the owner. They are listed according
to size: oxen, bullocks, stags, sheep, goats, lambs, goatlings, fawns, birds, oil, cakes, milk, fat.
These are again sub-categorized for whole offering (כלל) ,thank offering (צועת) ,peace offering .(שלם כלל)
You can find translations here and here. Note that both scream “CHILD SACRIFICE!!!”
immediately, to divert from the really important points, which I think are these:
The tariff is similar to Jewish laws for sacrifice from the Book of Leviticus. This is admitted in literature, and I see no problem with it. The two regions were neighbors, and it was simply a
custom.
More importantly: The list appears very detailed and bureaucratic. If the Phoenician rules for
sacrifices were this fine-grained, we can imagine they had similar rules for anything and everything.
MOST importantly: Line 17 and 18 specify that for highborn aristocrats, the public rules do not
apply. Instead, there’s a non-public set of rules written down somewhere else:
16. Anyone of high [birth], or any servant [thereof], or any [who arranges a] banquet for the
gods, or any men which sacrifice [...?]
17. these men shall pay for sacrifice [as per] other specifications set down in document [s ...?]
18. Any payments which are not set down in this piece, are given according to the documents
which [?... Hilles-Baal son of Bod-Tani]
19. t and Hilles-Baal son of Abd-Eshmun and associates.
kl mzrḥ wkl špḥ wkl mrzḥ ʾlm wkl ʾdmm ʾš yzbḥ [...?]
hʾdmm hmt mšʾt ʿl zbḥ ʾḥd kmdt št bktb[t ...?]
kl mšʾt ʾš ʾybl št bps z wntn lpy hktbt ʾš [?... ḥlṣbʿl bn bdtn]
t wḥlṣbʿl bn bdʾšmn wḥbrnm
כל מזרח וכל שפח וכל מרזח אלם וכל אדמם אש יזבח
[...האדמם המת משאת על זבח אחד כמדת שת בכתב]ת
[כל משאת אש איבל שת בפס ז ונתן לפי הכתבת אש ]...חלצבעל בן בדתנ
ת וחלצבעל בן בדאשמן וחברנם
It looks like the Hilles-Baal twins wrote a second set of rules for their peers, and didn’t want to
publish it. Does that invoke a great deal of trust in ancient or modern elites? This sacrificial tariff is
harmless, and I suppose they all did pay. But I personally suspect them of having a second set of
laws for many things, up to the present day.
Lawyers for Phoenician Emperors
Miles has found that many rich and powerful people are related to influential “Rabbis”, like mother and father of Karl Marx. That wouldn’t be a problem if they were devout and pious, but they
usually look more like corrupt spooks, who run grand-scale scams. Obviously, these “Rabbis” aren’t
real Rabbis who’d teach about Judaism. I suspect them to be law experts instead, for spook law. We
will likely find many more such “friendships” as we go back in history. I’ll give one example here.
His name was Judah I “the Prince”, explained with his Davidic bloodline, but probably really
because he was president-prince of the Sanhedrin in 165–1220 AD, the rabbinical supreme court,
which was for some reason relocated to his hometown Usha between Haifa and Nazareth, with his
father Simeon ben Gamliel II becoming the first president there Neither that info nor the name of
his father are linked from his Wiki page, though it says his father started the Mishnah project. If you
look at all the other Judahs, Simeons and Gamliels in the presidents list, it would seem that these
titles were either inheritable, or reserved for the most powerful clans, as today.
To rehash, Judah I was president of the supreme court, but had edited and compiled the written laws
himself. His father had also been president, and initiator of the laws project. The family was very
wealthy and came from an area of industrial ports at the Phoenician coast, to which this supreme
court was relocated, prior to them becoming presidents. Judah I was revered in Rome and was
friends with a Phoenician emperor of Rome.
What was this friendship about? The Talmud has many anecdotes about the two, definitely more
mythical than historical. But let’s just see what the authors want to tell us.
But MOST important is how Judah gave his advice: through vegetables!!!
The Gemara relates: Antoninus had a certain daughter whose name was Gira, who
performed a prohibited action, i.e., she engaged in promiscuous intercourse. Antoninus sent a
rocket plant [gargira] to Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi, to allude to the fact that Gira had acted
promiscuously [gar]. Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi sent him coriander [kusbarta], which Antoninus
understood as a message to kill [kos] his daughter [barta], as she was liable to receive the death
penalty for her actions. Antoninus sent him leeks [karti] to say: I will be cut off [karet] if I do
so. Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi then sent him lettuce [ḥasa], i.e., Antoninus should have mercy [ḥas]
on her . AVODAH ZARAH 10B:2 הוה ליה ההוא ברתא דשמה גירא קעבדה איסורא שדר ליה גרגירא שדר ליה כוסברתא שדר
ליה כרתי שלח ליה חסא
“Coriander” means “kill your daughter”? I doubt that aristocrats ever killed their daughters. But do
you notice something here? If not, have the modern commentary (non-bold) spell it out for you:
The Gemara asks: But why not let him say his advice explicitly? Why did Rabbi Yehuda
HaNasi answer in such a circumspect way, which could have been interpreted incorrectly? The
Gemara answers: Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi said to himself: If I answer openly, the important
Romans might hear me and will cause me anguish. The Gemara asks: But why not let him
say his advice quietly? The Gemara explains: Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi was still worried that they
might hear what he had said, because it is written: “Curse not the king, no, not in your thought,
and curse not the rich in your bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice”
(Ecclesiastes 10:2) . AVODAH ZARAH 10B:1 ולימא ליה מימר ]בהדיא [ אמר שמעי )בי( חשובי רומי ומצערו ליה ולימא ליה בלחש משום
דכתיב )קהלת י, כ( כי עוף השמים יוליך את הקול
Okay, here you have it: The Talmud advises to follow the man who compiled the Mishnah
because he always used puns to disguise important topics, so that other people wouldn’t know
what a conversation is about! If I haven’t convinced you yet that Ancient Spookian culture was all
about puns, including their laws, I hope you can now consider this possibility!
And you probably noticed that only the bold text is translated from Hebrew, the rest is Steinsaltz
commentary. Without it, that passage would have slipped by me. No wonder all the other spook
“Rabbis” ” hate Steinsaltz for it and ban his books.Thank you, Steinsaltz, chummy old spook!
And as for you, all you sorry little spook “lawyers” and spooklings out there: Instead of ganging up
on your colleague, you should hang your heads in shame, because the mess we’re all in is also your
collective fault! People like me aren’t becoming truthers because someone spills a bean or two in a
translation. But because we’re forced to live in a world of rampant top-level corruption and fake
terror gone through the roof! In all these millennia of spook law refinement, you couldn’t figure out
a way to grant us commoners a minimum of peace and stability? To put a limit to the madness
wrought by the top families? Either you failed to uphold the law that should protect us all, or you
failed to even write it in the first place! I suggest you start doing your job and work with us to fix
this mess, or your cozy ways of blissful punnery will soon become a thing of the ancient past.
But enough ranting. Dear readers, let’s wrap it up, close the old books, and breathe some fresh air.
We’re done here, for now.
Conclusion
Okay, that was it. This part of my analysis of ancient spookery, linking Ancient Israel and Ancient
Phoenicia, was the most difficult, both emotionally and because of all those glyphs. I hope it has not
offended or overly bored you, that you still believe in whatever you believed before, and that you
got some new insights out of it nonetheless.
While it’s a downer to see that aristocratic scamming goes back to ancient times, I find it at the
same time consoling that we common people have survived practically all of history with these
idiots around, and still made a lot of headway. I admit it’s a giant handicap having to drag the
aristocratic dead-weight along, but at least we can safely ditch all those end-of-world scares. We
kept our world spinning, and we will keep it spinning. Miles has always said as much.
So, just try to take it easy. And if you think you’re ready for some more truthing around, I’ll invite
you all to join me again for Part IV, where the “Phoenician angle” will serve us much of classical
antiquity on a silver plate, including the heads of some head spooks. I promise there will me no
more difficult Bible analysis, just a good old Wikipedia walkthrough, Miles-style.
Thanks a lot for joining me, and hope to see you again!
[Miles here: I said I would save most of my comments for the end of Part IV, and that still holds. I
want to let Gerry have his say. However, some of what he says here can be misread, and will be
misread, I think, so I will tell you my reading before we go any further. Some will think Gerry is
trying to say the Jews are really Phoenicians, to deflect blame or otherwise misdirect. I don't think
that is what he is doing, or saying. In my mind, you could just as easily say the Phoenicians were
really Jews, and that might be a better way of putting it in our context. What he has shown is
evidence the Israelites and Phoenicians were two arms of the same beast, with the Phoenician arm
later suppressed because it was known to be a rich arm. The modern Jews prefer to sell themselves
as victims and underdogs, as Gerry says. We see that every time I do the genealogy of a Hollywood
star, where they want you to believe they are the sons and daughters of truck drivers and waitresses,
instead of the children of the elite that they are. So it isn't that the Jews aren't really Jews or
Zionists or Israelites or Hebrews. They are. But they are also Phoenicians, Egyptians, Canaanites,
Assyrians, and Sumerians. What we now call the Jews were behind all those civilizations,
comprising the elite class hiding in the dark beneath them all. . . just like now. Modern elite Jews
are cosmopolitans, being American, Canadian, French, English, Dutch, Russian, Polish, and every
other designation. In exactly the same way, the ancient Jews were everywhere there was money to
be made and things to be traded. After a certain point, which even Gerry can't specify, we may
assume they were deeply lodged in all the famous old civilizations, running all or most of them
from behind the scenes. Israel and Phoenicia stand out in this list, the former for obvious reasons
and the latter for the reasons Gerry has laid out for you. Phoenicia was so obviously Jewish its
records had to be permanently hidden. And Solomon's links to Phoenicia were so obvious they had
to likewise hidden or tweaked.
But Gerry's greater point here is that the Phoenicians are a better tag for the modern Jews in some
ways since the Phoenicians were admitted to be rich traders, with their paws in all civilizations in
Europe and the Near East going back to 2500 BC and before. Also because the admitted history of
the Phoenicians helps us understand the current Jews. As when Herodotus tells us the Persian
historians claimed the “Phoenicians began the quarrel”. Substitute Jews there and you have it. Also
because it helps us understand the East India Company, a later Jewish construct. By realizing
Jew=Phoenician, we can understand that the East India Company didn't begin in 1600. It has
existed in unbroken line back to 2500 BC and before, just changing names and expanding routes.
The important characteristics of the Jews as I have been uncovering them is not the funny hats,
sidecurls, and beards, it is the international trade, hidden power structures, hidden relationships, and
worldwide propaganda machine. For this reason, linking them to the Phoenicians is useful in
understanding who they really are, what is important to them, and how they see themselves.
Although Gerry may overstress some things and under stress others for my taste here, I think he has
put a lot good data on the table. Some may stand and some may fall, but I thought it was worth
putting in front of you. Even if you or I decide his answer is not right, what we learned here may
help us see a better answer.
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