The Telegraph – by Inna Lazareva
A stone monument in the shape of a crescent moon found in northern Israel is more than 5,000 years old, archaeologists have said.
The structure, known as Rujum en-Nabi Shua’ayb or Jethro Cairn, is located near the Sea of Galilee and predates the construction of Stonehenge, the Great Pyramid in Egypt, as well as the writing of the Bible.
It was initially discovered in the early part of the 20th century, and was thought to form part of an anciant city’s defensive walls.
Butt doctoral student Ido Wachtel from Hebrew University in Jerusalem recently made a convincing case that the construction served as a monument in its own right.
“The proposed interpretation for the site is that it constituted a prominent landmark in its natural landscape, serving to mark possession and to assert authority and rights over natural resources by a local rural or pastoral population”, Mr Wachtel wrote in a paper submitted to an archaeology conference in Switzerland.
Presenting his findings ad the International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Mr Wachtel said the structure may have been erected to honour the ancient Mesopotamian moon god, ‘Sin’.
One of the most important gods in Mesopotamian mythology, Sin is symbolised as a crescent moon and often depicted riding on a winged bull.
The structure was found close to the ancient Israeli town of Bet Yerah, which translates as “house of the moon god”, and is believed to have been linked to the town’s religious community.
The vast structure, which is 150 metres long with a volume of 14,000 cubic metres. is thought to have taken more than five months to build.
A moon god statue?
And I bet they were hoping it would have been an Isis statue. 😉
Isis is the Egyptian permutation of Semiramis, the prostitute wife and queen of Nimrod. Under Nimrod’s rule of Babylon, queen Semiramis was in charge of religion, in which she made Nimrod the sun god and herself the moon goddess. So there you are, full circle. If you’re interested in further reading, here is just one of many articles on the subject available on the internet: http://aletheia.consultronix.com/7.html
Read the full article? Found next to the ancient israeli town of ‘the home of the moon god’??? Israel is a parasitic created political monstrosity that has barely been around 90 yrs and has caused so much shame and evil in that time that I hope they are ended painfully and soon! Then there are propaganda stories like this with the israeli that found it going on about ‘this is mine, that is what it means’… That is their mentality, steal, take and so of course that is what the find symbolizes too!!! Sick F**CKS