John The Baptist's Cave Found

[shadowdancer]

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    very interesting indeed...i see some lies though...seriously.  its the Mediatrix!!  check this out:  they state that the cave was originally carved(or maybe expanded upon from a fissure that already naturally existed?)at around 500-800 B.C....which is about 500 to 700 years after the projected estimate of the time of Moses(approx 1000-1500 B.C.; a margin of 500 years!!)  Which means that it was being used for very different ritual as when John the Baptist may have been using it...a 500 to 800 years difference in culture here!!  i have found some maps on the net...one is a map of the differenct cultures around the mid-east/semi-mediterranean/southwestern siberian steppes map.  the map is of the exact same time period of when they state that the cave was first "made"; approximately 500 B.C.  The cultures that were present during that time period were very different from the

quote:the Israelites in the Iron Age

.  The area was populated by not really by Jews but it was the home of the Achaemenid Empire and the expansion of Assyrian and Persian Empires.  Jews as a distinc ethnic and religious group of people simply did not exist, let alone "Isreal".  What this means is that there are radically different possibilities for the creation(or expansion of)"John's" cave.  One of these is that of Zoroastrianism, or the religion of Zarathustra...which views and beliefs(such as angels, heaven, an evil power like satan, a coming messiah(or saviour!) and the literal impending "end of the world".  this was the state religion of Cyrus the Great!  
       Now, combine all of the information above with the statement that the carvings in the cave have been dated to around the 14th century!!  We are looking at the middle ages, or crusades!!!  So what we really know is that there were a group of Europeans that discovered the cave during one of the Crusades (most likely as lots of Europeans physically travelling to and from the area) and they believed, it seems, that the cave was used by john the baptist....what were the origins of the cave and its real intended use from the time it was carved out of the hill?

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*looks around*    Namaste??

quote:what were the origins of the cave and its real intended use from the time it was carved out of the hill?

I don't know, but that is a good question..[]

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Namaste is a greeting Nay []

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LOL..thanks, I thought so after I saw the same thing in another posts. (didn't think he would be going around calling everyone that)So I googled it. []

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Pretty interesting..[]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/08/16/israel.johnthebaptist.ap/