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GNTLGNT said: Oh boy, you're not wrong. She is 15 yrs now. Our kitty boy ("J") is turning 18yrs. 🤞🙏🐾❤️
Happens to be Ernest Hemingway week. They gather.
They've already had the running of the Hemingways.
I made it down, the drive was spectacular. How can water be so clear, aqua, .turquoise and every other color that you can dream? So many bridges.
Hells bells, my big thing was going to the Jersey Shore as a child.
You can actually gasp.
And they make sure you know it.
Now the pillars, the oldest known megaliths in the world are standing in the enclosures. and belong to the oldest phases. They are inscribed or carved with pictographs that clearly depict mammals of different kinds, insects and spiders. birds are common and especially vultures (which were common in Jericho too) also snakes. There were four original enclosure and some were damaged by later slides but new were built. The original excavator built a theory on what he foybd, That the site was a stone age mountain sanctuary. That the carvings of the different animals were there for protection and that it basically was a place for the cult of the dead but that noone lived there. More excavation has forced archaeokogists tochange their view. There is one carving of a man, a headless man with an erect phallus. It is thought that the pillars themselfes represent the body of a man and the slap on top the head and thats the reasin that some display at the top the carving of arms and hands. Now the view is shifting. The domestic houses, traces of rainwater harvesting systems and more has forced a change of view. But i think it is an important point that the pictographs found on the pillars almost exclusively is animals that were not hunted for food. (Gazelle and Mouflon Sheep is an exception). Also the fact they always have an aggressive stance and the fact that there is no scenes that can be seen as hunting scenes. No pictures of what can be interpreted as gods or godesses. That rhymes with the dating. The earjiest pantheon we know anything about (in Mesopotamia). Therefore i believe that this community leaned more to a shamanistic approach to gods and spirits. They were to be honored but there was not a whole priesthood around it. They probably had a spirutual leader or wise man but that was just a part time job. He or she probably took part in many other activities. So i think the enclosures/temples in a kind of religious way but it was a dwelling place too. That, for me, is how it looks today but remember that is my view. And there is more to come i am sure. They have done georadar things and found many more structures. Hopefully they will be dug out. There have been the rather normal claims of an ancient astronomical observatory but noone in the profession believes that and it is really denonced over the line. This is a new finding since the first excavation was made in 1994. The archaeologists have barely begun. I remember now there has been a human skull found buried. That seems to indicate that the widespread skullcult that we see in Jericho among among others also existed here. So far thats the only sure burial found. But since it lies in an area were farmers have taken both stones and earth plus the many ancient earthslides that occurred under many thousand many could have destroyed if, as is probable, they were simple earth graves. Also they might have used a grave site not yet found. Time will tell. Hope that is enough. That is what i remember.