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Required for a century, the temple of Zeus is located in Egypt

2022-06-30 21:49:45Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Required for a century, the temple of Zeus is located in Egypt
Required for a century, the temple of Zeus is located in Egypt

The remains of a temple dedicated to Zeus are coming to light in Sinai, Egypt. The discovery was made at the archeological site of Tel al-Farma, the ancient city of Pelusium. The discovery is of great importance as an example of syncretism in antiquity, ie the fusion of different religious beliefs. In this case, the cult of the Greek god of the sky Zeus was united with that of the regional deities who inhabited Mount Cassius. This is a much-needed discovery, with the first excavations in the area dating back to 1910. It was French archaeologist Jean Clédat who discovered late Greek inscriptions in an archive showing the presence of a temple he was unable to find.

Required for a century, the temple of Zeus is located in Egypt

GRANITE TRACE. "Excavations at the temple began near two large granite columns, which represented the entrance door, which fell to the ground due to an ancient earthquake," said Mustafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Egyptian Antiquities.

"The temple was built of clay bricks on a raised platform and its ceiling was supported by pink granite columns. "A marble staircase was probably used by the faithful to reach the temple platform."

Archaeologists have found other large pink granite blocks near the temple. They were probably removed from the temple to be recycled in church building. By tightening the beam, it is reached to the actual temple. Here was also found an inscription that complements the previous one, revealing that the emperor Hadrian (76-138 AD) ordered new additions to the temple of Zeus at Cassius. Alexandria Prosecutor Titus Flavio Tiziano then proceeded.

Required for a century, the temple of Zeus is located in Egypt

EARTH AND COSMIC BATTLE . The city of Pelusium, next to which the temple stood, dates back to the late Pharaonic period and passed through the Greco-Roman and Byzantine eras. It was an important fortress city to protect the extreme eastern borders of the Egyptian Nile delta. In the 8th century BC, the Assyrian king Sennacherib, advancing from the kingdom of Judah, in an attempt to conquer Egypt, could not conquer the city, which fell to the Persians in 525 BC.

Mount Casios, the site of the "hybrid" cult, is located along the current border between Syria and Turkey, in an area that is now militarized. It was here, according to Greek mythology, that there was a struggle for cosmic supremacy between Zeus and Typhon, the storm monster. Zeus managed to defeat Typhon with his lightning and then buried him under Mount Etna in Sicily, at a distance that only the gods could quickly cover in mythical time.

A HOME FOR ALL GODS. Mount Cassius (locally called Jebel al-Aqra) was also an ancient place of worship for the inhabitants of Canaan (an area that included present-day Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan). To them he represented the house of various deities. For example, the storm god Ba'al Zephon. The people of the ancient port city of Ugarit revered the mountain as the seat of the palace of Ba'al and his sister Anat. Mount Cassius is also mentioned in the Bible, as is Mount Zaphon.

Then came the Greeks who captured the sanctity of the mountain and transferred the cult of Zeus there taking into account the local tradition, renaming it exactly Zeus-Cassius. In short, the ancients were often flexible in terms of religious beliefs, recognizing those of others as valid, to the point of merging them with their own.

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