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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Ancient Phoencians secret of economics "the first whore house"

About 5000 years to about 3000 years ago the land known as Canaan stretched from the Dead Sea to what is now Lebanon. The people from these regions were known as Canaanites. The land of Canaan was divided into a series of different territories that were all districts of the land. The people that were the most prosperous Canaanites were known as the Phoenicians. The word Phoenician literally means “purple people” and they saw themselves as superior to all other Canaanites. Early in time many that were considered Phoenicians would migrate to be in the company of another Canaanite called a Jebusite. Phoenicians mainly lived in Phoenicia, which consist of Lebanon, Syria and Israel, going as far south as Tyre, whereas Jebusites lived in a region around Jerusalem that was still called Jebus.Sounds a lot like Jesus doesn’t it?Now before we go any further let me just give a brush-up. In the biblical stories Noah of the Arc had a son named Ham. Ham had two sons, one Canaan and the other Cush. Cush married Semiramis and their son was Nimrod the Babylonian man-god. When Nimrod died, his mother / wife told the people of his kingdom that he was still present on earth in the form of a flame and to now refer to him as Ba’al… However this belief was only in Babylon and east. The land of Canaan was west. The descendents of Canaan spread out to form the land of Canaan and in the land Ba’al was a Canaanite word that meant lord.At least 5000 years ago Canaanites worshipped a trinity of gods known as El the father, Baalat the mother god and their son Baal. Now we already know that Baal means lord in Canaanite and according to traditional stories, El was the sun and Baalat was a representation of Venus.According to literature written by ancient writers, modern man was able to put the pieces together of what their belief was about.The Greek writer Lucian wrote in 120BC about how the women of Byblos had carried out secret rituals in the temple of Baalat and another early writer named Herodotus wrote in 460BC about how certain ritual ceremonies occurred, except this time they took place in the temple of Astarte in Babylon. In these times certain women were chosen to sacrifice themselves sexually to traveling strangers in exchange for a donation to the temple, which was controlled by the high priest, not the king or ruler of the area. These women were titled as Hierodules which means “holy servants”. In later, but still early Jewish temples the Hierodules were called Kedeshim meaning “consecrated one”. In the early Canaanite religion El was the highest of the 3 gods and high priest created stories claiming that El wanted to impregnate good pure women, so that they would give birth to special god-like children that would bring order, and structure to the world. However included in the story was that El would have to disguise himself as a passing traveler, to test the faith of the women whom became Hierodules. This imposed a religious duty for the Phoenician women to make themselves sexually available to traveling strangers. At first it was only during certain periods of the year, mainly the equinoxes, but later on became more regular. This Phoenician originated belief did two very important things needed to become a dominate progressive nation, it boosted loads of tourist to come into town and trade goods as well as bring in a type of free-trade in return for a time in the temple of Baalat. It was common for a traveling stranger to pay a donation to the Hierodules, whom in return would pay tithe or a tax to the temple of Baalat for allowing her to perform her “ritual”. The area known as Phoenicia became wealthy and powerful and dominated over the other Canaanite lands because of these tactics. In an ancient pictorial drawing, there shows an exchange in knowledge from the Phoenicians to the Greeks.

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