It was the most renowned and respected shrine in the Roman Empire, the object of veneration by Julius Caesar,...
It was the most renowned and respected shrine in the Roman Empire, the object of veneration by Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Octavian, Caligula, Hadrian, Severus, Caracalla and a host of other luminaries. It stood for centuries within a sacred precinct the size of a large town at the heart of the greatest Greek city in the world. Yet at the end of the 4th century AD, when the Christian emperor Theodosius outlawed paganism, it disappeared without trace, creating the greatest archaeological enigma of the ancient world.
This came to me this morning.
ReplyDeleteEdgar Allan Wright Thank you for sharing, as always.
ReplyDeleteIve never heard of this shrine...and i took latin for 3 years so far
ReplyDeleteCat S. That's our job. To find this shrine. Somehow it's connected.
ReplyDeleteMustafa Said well if you need any latin translations id be happy to help
ReplyDeleteCat S. Thanks for your help!
ReplyDeleteInteresting that a post about a missing tomb would appear a day after the CDC document was leaked about Jarvis's body being stolen
ReplyDeleteThe oracle at Delphi
ReplyDeletePythia of the Temple of Apollo
ReplyDeleteThe only Roman Shrine I can think of is the 'Temple of Janus' or 'Janus Geminus', this Temple housed the Roman God Janus which was the God of Beginnings and Transition, he usually presided over war and peace and also held a key in one hand (Resistance) and a staff in the other (shepherds/guides usually have staffs so this represents Enlightened) more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus
ReplyDeleteJanus Lab, first contact, a beginning - http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/pac/IB/01/item/MWH.jpg
ReplyDeleteYou may be on to something here Rory Durkin
ReplyDeleteYik Sheng Lee wow! Very interesting indeed!
ReplyDeleteAdditionally interesting information from Yik Sheng Lee"s source. "Earliest mention of a Serapis is in the disputed death scene of Alexander..."
ReplyDelete"Here, Serapis has a temple in Babylon, and is of such importance that he alone is consulted in named in being consulted on behalf of the dying king. .."
We have Osiris in connection with the death of Alexander the Great.
Edgar Allan Wright Are you suggesting XM sensitives hyper threaded an entire monument?
ReplyDeleteMichelle E Carmen Sandiego is an XM sensitive!
ReplyDeleteAlexander the great...or Alexander Magno
ReplyDeletehttp://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/alexander/tomb.html more about the 'disappearing' of alexanders body
ReplyDelete"The king's body had been lying in the coffin for six days while everybody's attention had been diverted from the obsequies to forming a government...when Alexander's friends eventually found time to attend to his corpse, the men who entered the tent saw that no decay had set into it and that there was not even the slightest discoloration." -Plutarch
ReplyDeleteGod, to know what that glyph Hank erased was.
ReplyDeleteSomebody should ask him
ReplyDeleteThe greatest Greek city in the world... Athens? This was from a roman perspective who appreciated that the Greeks were an advanced civilization. I suppose Alexandria also fits the bill. A town within a city makes me think of the Acropolis. But obviously its still there.
ReplyDeleteCenturies prior, but leading up to the pagan genocide, there was a King Numa who received a shield from the skies over the Palatine Hill. He was said to be an agent of various gods, with his reign touched off by the construction of a temple to Janus.
ReplyDeleteThis shield was adorned with glyphs of a sort and considered to be so valuable, that eleven identical copies were produced such that no one including Numa could identify the true shield.
Unfortunately, in times of war, the doors are opened and such centuries of cultural work and experience may be reduced in moments to ash in the wind. However, some fragment oftens seems to survive. For example statuary representing Janus and also various sarcophagi held at the Vatican Museum.
Was Alexander part of 13MAGNUS? Is there an accident that his corpse was delivered to Egypt home of Osiris. Is his corpse in a 'nest.'
ReplyDeleteEdgar Allan Wright alexander did conquer a majority of the known world at the time...and in the east of that area he was known as Alexander the devil...i wonder if he had abilities we cant use now
ReplyDeleteHistory is full of these tiny coteries built around great men. They may not define history but they are remembered. 13magnus seems like a template for such.
ReplyDeleteBy being remembered and at times emulated or worshipped, these men and women shape the course of history long after their death.
ReplyDeleteAlso Alexander changed the physical geography of the world through the siege of Tyre. He made a land bridge to the island. Not to mention he used the first siege towers if my memory is correct.
ReplyDeleteI'm also reminded of the opening lines of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms":
ReplyDelete"It is a general truism of this world that anything long divided will surely unite, and anything long united will surely divide."
this is a great article as well - of note on the tomb that is discussed is writings from "The Book of What is in the Underworld"... http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/826879?uid=3739864&uid=2134&uid=377720411&uid=2&uid=70&uid=3&uid=3739256&uid=60&uid=377720401&sid=21103330598787
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