Phoenicia

They're what is known as henotheistic, which means they picked one god out of many, which is why the Commandments, three of them, say you shall not worship anyone else but me, because they chose Yahweh.

Yahweh, by the way, uh, YHWH, Yahweh, is a Phoenician Canaanite deity.

He was in the same pantheon as Moloch, as Baal, and if you read the Old Testament word for word, you'll see exactly what kind of a person he was.

Now I'd like to introduce you to Meaningful Beauty, the famed skincare brand created by iconic supermodel Cindy Crawford.

All figures per serving of Hero Bread see nutrition facts on hero.co.

So I'm going to explain now Gnosticism in a pitch because a lot of people have issues with getting it.

Yahweh originally was a Phoenician Canaanite god, same as Baal and Moloch.

The Jews are henotheistic, not monotheistic, meaning they chose one god out of many.

She was also very interested in Beowulf, um, as well.

And she said elsewhere in, in interviews, she said w- sort of one of the purposes that she was driving at in, in referencing The Odyssey in this way is that she felt that these stories, these Mediterranean stories, which must have drawn on different parts o- of the Mediterranean, they must have been carried at certain times by Phoenicians or people from Egypt, had all been positioned over the centuries into being a single white man called Homer.

And she said that she wanted to get beyond the white gaze of these old epics and sort of put them back into a m- a multicultural context.

So there's a whole really sophisticated ideological agenda going on i- in the way that she's a- um, approaching The Odyssey in, in Song of Solomon.

All have, like the Jewish people, lost much of their power and glory when they lost the sacred Arkansas.

In ancient Chaldea and Phoenicia the Ark was well known.

India celebrates it as the Lotus, and the ancient Egyptians tell how the moon god Osiris was imprisoned in an Ark.

In all the mystery religions of the world, individually and cosmically, the Ark represents the fountainhead of wisdom.

Well, what's going on? Remember the solar or red cross? which was drawn with red pigment on the tomb of the Sumerian-Egyptian emperor Menes.

The Phoenicians used the same symbol, which later became the San Jorge cross, the one that defeated the dragon.

The red cross is the symbol of the Templar Knights, of the flag of England and, of course, also of the Alfa Romeo logo.

No matter what era you go to, because everyone since 1910 appeared.

He robbed out of Tyre, helped build the temple.

And now we see again this starving Phoenician widow gathering sticks is the one that's chosen to help sustain Elijah the prophet.

It's like where you're born doesn't matter.

Where you were born doesn't tell you who you are, who you can become.

He takes the child out of her arms, carries him up to his own room, lays him down on his own bed, and pours out his heart to God.

Verse 20.

Hashem my God, have you even brought evil upon the widow with whom I am staying to kill her son? He argues with God on behalf of a Phoenician woman he met a few months ago.

And then he stretches himself over the child three times and prays words that have forever been prayed in the history, in the future of the world and have never been prayed before that.

It was with this attitude that archaeologists approached the ruins of Hazor to see if they could tell whether Solomon actually did add to the wall of Hazor and possibly do some other building there as the Bible describes.

Hazor was an important city on the primary military and trade routes between Israel and Phoenicia, Syria, Mesopotamia and Egypt.

Hazor had been destroyed by Joshua when Israel took possession of the land.

Over the following centuries, the site began to be inhabited by Israelites.

Number two, she says that the Bible says that the King Hiram of Tyre, the Tyres in Phoenicia, sent carpenters and stonemasons to build David's palace.

So King David evidently didn't build his own palace.

He brought in the Phoenicians.

And, says Eilat Mazar, recently, a few decades ago, a Phoenician artifact appeared.

capital, the top part of a column, the decorated part of a column, was found in this location up the hill.

She goes, now why would the Phoenicians be here? Well, the Bible tells you they were building King David's palace, so this must be the location of the palace.

So she has to raise money.

An archaeological dig occurs.

So there's this concept that the sacred geometry came out of Egypt.

The actual building of Solomon's temple, we know from the Bible, was a kind of a collaborative effort between Solomon... and Hiram of Phoenicia, right? So there was this connection between another Hiram, not Hiram Abiff, who built the temple, but Hiram, the king Hiram of Tyre, I think, who then gave some of his elements, some of his architectural elements, some of his instructors, some of his architects he sent over to Solomon.

So we have essentially, no matter how you want to look at it, a kind of pagan temple, which was the prototype for Solomon's temple.

But to the Freemasons, this went back even further.