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THE
ZIGZAGS OF OUR HISTORY
The
trip on which we are inviting you now is absolutely
unusual.
The historian-reformers contend that Christ was
born after the millennium... A.D. That is, he was
born, lived and was crucified not 2,000 years ago, as
the traditional chronology maintains, but in the epoch
of the 10th-11th centuries A.D. At the same time, the
scientists are producing a mass of tremendously
interesting facts, evidence and assumptions. One can find them
in the numerous volumes of the works of G. Nosovskiy and
A. Fomenko, in the works of academician M. Morozov, and
in the books of a whole series of Western scientists.
Many of
them have been published and still will be published on
the pages of the RevisedHistory.org Web site. Let us then,
armed with their conclusions, set off on a trip though
the places connected with Christ’s work.
Our
trip runs not toPalestine,
not to present-day
Jerusalem,
but to
Turkey.
To
Istanbul! To that very
Istanbul
which several centuries ago was called
Constantinople and was the
capital of the huge Byzantine Christian Empire. In which
connection it also was called New Rome
and...Jerusalem.
Then, in those centuries, in the opinion of the
historian-reformers, the word
“Jerusalem”
meant “Holy
City.” No
more, but also no less. It is here that Jesus Christ
lived and preached.
The
Star of Bethlehem, referred to in all kinds of sources,
let alone the New Testament, points to the fact that he
was born in the 11th century. In 1054, the brightest
star flared up-there was a colossal explosion of a
supernova millions of parsecs from Earth. The so-called
Crab Nebula, which is studied by all the world's
astronomers, still remains from it to this day. In the
century in which, in the opinion of the traditionalists,
Christ was born, there was no such flare-up in space.
Believers have connected the explosion of the
supernova with the birth of the Messiah. And this
explosion can serve as a reliable reference point of
Christ's life.
According to the Gospel, after 33 years he was
crucified at Golgotha near
Jerusalem.
When they equated the
Jerusalem of
the Gospel with the present in the 17-18th centuries,
then, essentially, they tried to find this
Golgotha itself. But that which
is being proposed to us now as
Golgotha in modern
Palestine,
it's a little hill. One can find such hills wherever
they like.
At the
same time, outside of
Istanbul
there is a place which one can rather reliably equate
with the Golgotha of the Gospel.
The highest mountain in the Upper Bosphorus. Today it bears the name Beykoz.
And at its summit (180 meters above sea level) is
situated a giant symbolic grave which is called “the
grave of Jesus." In Turkish, Jesus-Yusa.
It
is unlikely you have heard about it. Therefore, let’s
get better acquainted with it.
The
official Christian church has declared it the grave of
another Jesus – of Jesus Navin.((1)) But in particular,
the crusaders came here with maniacal persistence all
the way up to the last crusade (1453), so as to seize
the Holy Sepulchre by storm. They went all out for
Constantinople, and not modern
Jerusalem.
It also is known for certain that Russians sailed in
particular to
Czarigrad=Constantinople to
Christ’s grave.
What does it look like
today?
A flat, rectangular earthen rise 17 meters long
and 2 meters wide. It is surrounded with a high
cast-iron grate, enclosed by means of an iron netting.
The point is that the local inhabitants consider the
grave miraculous and come here in order to be healed of
their illnesses. But, the iron netting doesn’t allow the
pilgrim to touch the holy ground inside the fence.
The ground is
overgrown with thick grass. Several high trees grow. At
the opposite end of the grave are two circular
cylindrical stones, which are reminiscent of small
millstones. In the center of one of them are seen a
quadrangularng and a very noticeable fissure. All
this is enclosed by a stone wall, in which two doors and
several windows have been made. The pilgrims enter one
of the doors, pass around the grave in a circle and exit
outside through a second door.
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Nothing has changed here in several centuries. In
the well-known Old Russian text, “The Pilgrimage of
Abbot Daniel,” a description is given of the
Jerusalem of
the Gospel. In modern Russian translation, a fragment of
this text reads thus: “The place of the crucifixion of
the Lord is found on the eastern side on the stone. It
was high. The stone itself was round, not unlike a small
hill, and in the middle of that stone, on the very top,
a socket-hole is carved out nearly a cubit in depth, and
the width is not less than a foot in diameter. It is here that
the cross of the Lord was erected. In the ground itself,
beneath the stone lays the head of the first Adam. . .
And that stone has broken up above Adam’s head. . . And
there is this fissure in the stone even to this day. . .
The place of the Lord’s crucifixion and that holy stone
are enclosed all round with a wall. . . there are two
doors."
Everything agrees precisely with the present
appearance of the grave on
Mount
Beykoz on the
outskirts of
Istanbul.
Daniel further notes that is it about five sajenes ((2))
from the Lord’s crucifixion to the descent from the
cross. Actually, at the other end of the grave is a
second stone approximately the very same size, but
without the fissure. Most likely it marks the place of
the “descent from the cross,” that is, the place where
they laid the body of Jesus after taking him down from
the cross.
And then it becomes understandable why the grave
is so huge. The place where Jesus was crucified also
ascribes to it. As regards the famous Holy Sepulchre,
which the crusaders recaptured from the Turks, today it
apparently is no longer on
Mount
Beykoz.
Daniel saw it and described it as a sarcophagus: “Out of the rock
a grotto small,” that is,
“a small cave hewn from the stone.” In which connection,
with small doors: “it hath doors
which are small." One could enter only on hands and
knees.
According to Daniel and other sources of the
Middle Ages, the Holy Sepulchre was at the separate
Church of the Resurrection. Some kind of a small
building has been built onto the wall now. There are no
other buildings. There is information that at some time
the ruins of some kind of Byzantine buildings were found
here.
Alongside the grave of Jesus are several common
graves. There are huge ones, too, but somewhat lower.
The historian-reformers are expressing the supposition
that the disciples of Jesus, his apostles, are buried in
some of them.
There also is one more stunningly majestic and
splendid
monument of
Christianity
in
Istanbul=Constantinople.
This is the Hagia Sophia Temple. In it is the famous
golden mosaic which depicts Jesus Christ. They call it
“one of the greatest works and triumphs of mosaic art in
Constantinople.” Gold, precious
and semiprecious stones. According to the new
reconstruction of history, the Hagia Sophia Temple is
not so different than the Biblical
temple of
Solomon. In
the modern view, it was built in the 16th century by the
sultan Suleyman (Solomon) the Magnificent. In the
subsequent two centuries, the temple was remade into a
mosque.
Starting from the 11th all the way to
the 15th centuries,
Czarigrad=Jerusalem
was considered the center of the world of that time.
It is also
portrayed so on maps. On one of them, dated 1581,
Jerusalem is
located in the center of the world. It is drawn in that
place where the three continents come together,
symbolically depicted by three petals:
Europe,
Asia and
Africa. Such a portrayal agrees
with the location of
Istanbul on
the Bosphorus Straits. The straits also separate
Europe from
Asia exactly, and
Africa lies to the south.
If understood, the discovery of
Jerusalem in
Constantinople is not such a
surprise. The fact is that the Christian Church itself
was the first to begin a search for Biblical locations
other than those which are indicated in the Gospels.
Starting from the 13th century, the Catholic Church has
claimed that the very house where the Virgin Mary lived
and where the Archangel Gabriel appeared to her is in
the Italian city of
Loreto. The
earliest document concerning the “House of Loreto” is a
Bull of Urban VI (in 1387.) In 1891, Leo XIII published
an encyclical on the occasion of the “600th
anniversary of the miracle in Loreto.” That is, he dated
this miracle in 1291! So, when then
was Christ born?
And where? The zigzags of
history take one’s breath away. Making them more
interesting for investigation.
R. Grishin , 2002
References:
((1)) Jesus Navin is another
name given to Joshua, the successor to Moses in the Old
Testament.
((2)) About 35
feet.
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