1-dolmen-salomon-tempel

      Dolmen, Salomo´s temple and the
   GILGA - stone- circle in Palestine



Hypothesis

It is said that in Salomon's tempel had been:

1.) Two columns with floral capitals,
2.) Kettles on four wheels
3.) A chariot of the sun pulled by horses.

Problem I: These ritual objects present itself as an alien in biblical
research (Spanuth)

Problem II: Kettle on wheels and a sun-car are proven in Mid-Europe within the Bronze Age; years before Salomo. Thereby conceivable that refering to these objects in the Bible may point to imigrants from the North,at least about 1200 BC the Sea-People and Philistines

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         Kettle on wheels

A

b c d

   A) c) Bronze kettle .Altintepe, Ankara 800 b.
d) Bronze kettle on a four wheels car with bird heads (swans?).        (Mid-Germany) around 1200 b.
      e).Skallerup, Denmark, late Bronze Age. In the kettle ash of a fire funeral.

b) Coin , 3th c. BC, Sidon
   c) Kettle car, Cyprus (Zwickel)
   d) Cyprus. Cauldron. At the top edge concentric sun-disks connec-
ted by tangents. /Compareable to the solar disk of Tundholm. Denmark
    http://zypern-hamburg.blogspot.com/

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1 King 7:27 He also made ten bronze movable stands. Each stand was
six feet long, six feet wide, and four-and-a-half feet high.
7:30 Each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles and four supports.-------
7:35 On top of each stand was a round opening three-quarters of a foot deep.

                                              Column
1 King 7,15 He made two bronze pillars; each pillar as twenty-seven feet
   high and eighteen feet in circumference.
7:20 On the top of each pillar, right above the bulge beside the lattice-
work, there were two hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments arranged
   in rows all the way around.
7:22 The tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So the construction of
the pillars was completed. (Lilies ~ Spirals ? pomegranate = floral capitell ?)
The meaning of the two columns *Jachin and Boas* is still disputed.

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Problem:


The bronze pillars and the kettle were made by order of King Salomo.
    but
    later on removed by order of King       Josia

King 23,4 And the king commanded -----,to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal.
23,14: And he broke in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

          Chariot of the sun (Trundholm, Denmark 1400 BC

23,11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering of the house of the LORD, -------- and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

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May be helpfull to connect culturally NORTH and SOUTH by looking upon
   common megalithic dolmen

         a.b..c

a.) The Dolmen of Lehmsieck. Schleswig-Holstein NorthGermany
b.) The "bed" of the king Og (Dtn 3.11) Aman/Jordanien
c.) Palestina, al-Murayghat, some encirceld by a stone circle.
Early Bronze Age link
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Hypothesis: About the 5th to 3th millennium BC. megalithic monuments
originated in North-West Europa At least since the 4th millennium BC
Northerners reached the eastern Mediterranean area. An assumption
stongly supported by biology (Rickets, blond) .Since the 4th to 3th millen-
nium the Tamahu with fair hair become provable in Egypt.

About 1000 years later in the 3th millennium thousands of dolmen were
built in Palestine being comparable in form and size to those in northern
Europe. Supposed to be symbols of an old ´European´ natural religion.

I.e. there could have been a cultural link between the dolmen in Palestine
and the northern Megalithicans. Gradually leavng the harsh North, migra-
ting southwards since the Mesolithicum; primarily going by boat down
the rivers, at least down the Danube. In historical times the Dorian and
the Sea- People around 1200 BC.

This in mind. Salomo gave order to Hiram the King of Tyrus to built a
Temple. Tyrus was a major Phoenician seaport from about 2000 BC
through the Roman period.
Obviously at the time of Salomo the relation between the Iraelite and the
nonisraeltite appeared to be friendly (1 King 5,15 ) Could be that religion
was at this time not a matter of conflict.

Conceivable that at least in the 2th millennium B.C. in Palestine kettle
on wheels, columns with a floral capital und sun chariots pulled by horses
had been ritual objects in temples of the Dolmen builder. In this ´megalithic´
surrounding the Biblical legend of Salomo's temple grew. May be that
later on with growing populations religion became an instrument of power
between Post- Megalthican and Israelite.

Facit: Archeological findings may support the view that there could be
a relation between the so far supposed temple of Salomon - build by
order of Salomon to the Phoenician Hiram - and a religion of dolmen-
builders.

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So far Salomon´s Temple.

New in the discussion, a combination of the Himmelsscheibe
(Sky Disc,Nebra) with Gilgal stone circle on the Golan Heights.
Admittedly, at first glance a little bit "questionable", but ......

   Himmelsscheibe (Nebra) The GILGAL Stone Crircle (Golan Hight)
   Germany ~1500 BC http://www.

Problem : The HImmelsscheibe and the GILGAL circle
      both with a ~90º sector in the outer rim of a stone crcle.

The Himmelsscheibe (sky disk) is supposed to symbolize the earth as
a flat disk.The outer rim being the horizon showing two marked sections
forming an angle of 82 degree. (A -D) -(B-C) . The exact run of the sun
between winter - summer solstice in Midgermany. At the bottom a boat
supposed to be the sun barque.The disk may by a symbol of a Northern sun
religion.
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      The circle in Palestine is named                  Gilgal
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgal_Refaim


In 1968 Professor Yonathan Mizrahi of the Department of Anthropology at Harvard
University and Prof. Anthony Aveni of Colgate University discovered that in 3000
BCE, the first rays of the summer solstice would have appeared directly through the
northeast opening as seen from the central tumulus. At the same time, the southeast
opening provided a direct view of Sirius http://www.
The Himmelsscheibe and the GILGAL circle is surrounded by numerous
megalithic dolmen. Likely to assume that even the GILGAL circle is of
megalithic origin. (Dorian- Phlistine ?)
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May be the key

A supposed underlying religious background in North and South,
    How to get over a deadly water separating human and gods.?



    Kosmos       Cheops 2500 BC    Oseberg, Norway 800
Spiral    Spiral
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1,)    Egypt coffin text 62 I have cause you to cross the Waterway of the Sky
Windows, to cross the lake and traverse the sea (with) the sole of the
foot as if you performe on and land (Coffin text ~1650-1450)

2.) Sumer Gilgamesh became desperate because seeing worms in the face
of his deceased friend Enkidu.

" will I not even embed and not get up in the duration of eternity? "
He is desperate and asks for a life after death. He wanders through
steppes and over seas. He finally comes to the Schenkin Siduri,

          'Because she lives in seclusion of the sea'. He asks her "You lives, my
Schenkin, on the shores of the sea. Therefore knows you know, your heart
encompasses everything.
          Wherever I shall go tell me; If it is possible, I want to pass the seas

         The Schenkin said to him, to Gilgamesh:
         "Never, Gilgamesh, there has been a transition point and nobody, since
the last time comes, goes over the sea. "

3.) Joshua 3

and the priests who were carrying the Ark stood on dry ground in the
middle of the Jordan and waited as all the people passed by."

4.)    Matthäus 14,2514.25

But in the fourth night vigil Jesus came to them and went on the lake.

26 And when the men saw him on the high seas, they were shocked and
cried: It's a ghost and cried from fear.
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5.) Gilgal When the Israeli on their way from Egypt to the promised land Canaan
they had at least to pass the river Jordan. It was the harvest season and
the Jordan was overflowing all its banks.

      Again the Problem : How to pass a water obstacle.

And Joshua [3] said to the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the

LORD will do wonders among you.

"Suddenly, far up the river at the city of Adam, the water began piling up as
though against a dam! And the water below that point flowed on to the Dead
Sea until the riverbed was empty.
Then all the people crossed at a spot where the river was close to the city of
Jericho, and the priests who were carrying the Ark stood on dry ground in the
middle of the Jordan and waited as all the people passed by."

19 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month,
and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.

20    And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan,
did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.

21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall
ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
22 Then they shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan
on dry land. 23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from
before you, until they were passed over,

as the LORD your God did to the
Red sea, (Sea Reeds)
    which he dried up from before us,
until we were gone over:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgal_Refaim

The key for understanding a link between the two stone
circles could be a ´common´ ancient wide spread
religious basic problem.

   A deadly water separating humans from God

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Facit :
                   In the background the "European" ferryman idea.
How do I get over a "deadly " water ?

Spanuth, J.     Die Atlanter 1976 Die Philister, ein unbekanntes Volk 1980
Zwickel, W     Der salomonische Tempel 1999
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next Olympic games at summer solstice ?
The summit of an originally northern sun religion ?

GILGAL http://www.ccg.org/_domain/ccg.org/Creation%20Articles/Circle%20of%20the%20Refaim.htm

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