Fun Bible fact: King David was a longhead. If you look at the earlier translations and the Hebrew, he was said to be the "tallest from the shoulders up". Interestingly, this locks in with a couple of other facts.
It stems from the idea that these longheads seemed to be the Elites of their time. And it's not that Elites are considered beautiful, it's that they define what comes to be considered beautiful. How many men really liked fat butts before the Kardashians came along? Anyway....
The Bible says that David was the most beautiful man in the land. Here I would contend that it was precisely because his long head resembled that Elite standard of beauty.
Also, monkey-see monkey-do, so since people want to be beautiful, they end up always trying to emulate the Elite. And that's precisely why people would dream up the extremely bizarre practices of head-binding and cradle-boarding,
Yeah, that's a good example of one of the highly forced and ludicrous explanations given for these passages.
... “he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.” Saul’s physical appearance was accentuated when he stood. Could it be any clearer, friends? Is it so difficult to see? Israel’s King Saul was a very tall man!
So we're supposed to believe this is how the Israelites would describe a tall person? One may compare to Deuteronomy 9:2, describing giants:
A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!
I encourage everyone to look at the various translations of 1 Samuel 9:2 that contain the word "head", and note that that word is not in the original Hebrew.
That was only one source who agrees with the summation that the term denotes height, not the slightly forced assertion that he was a rogue holdover example of skull elongation amongst his peers who didn't practice it at the time.
I'll say I can consider the plausibility of your thesis and give it some to be more diplomatic, but I find the argument to be lesser than the one that he was taller than most as that was the norm for leaders of the day.
I find many uses of words in the bible to have several meanings as ancient languages associated words differently than today due to shared consonants with missing vowels as well as words having intertwined or even 'inter-dimensional' meanings shared in one word, such as the word head. It can mean several things.
In this way Sitchin misled by purposeful mis-transliteration btw.
Yeah, I've found that everyone ends up believing what they want to believe. The true manipulation lies in getting people to want to believe certain things, and they will themselves fill in everything after that as required. Few can escape this technique.
In burial grounds containing longheads, they are often segregated, with finer clothing and better grave goods. I have no information on how thicc they were.
Interestingly, at that time in Israel there had been no Elites at all until shortly before David. He was only the third king. The first, Saul, only became king after the Israelites insisted Yahweh appoint one.
In between the two was a mysterious character named Eshbaal (<-- whaaaat?).
Turns out it's specifically Satan, but that's a long story.
Here's one part of the story, though, where people get thrown off the trail: Baal (or Ba'al or Bel or Beel, etc) is usually translated as "lord". It also has the connotation of ownership, so a fuller translation might be something like "lord and master".
While this is just a title or descriptor and could apply to anyone--or any deity--in all my research I've only only come across one or two instances where I thought it might not be referring to Satan. But then, I also suspect that with deeper research I would have been able to make the connection.
So a "faraway" connection would be something like "Beelzebub" is really "Baal zevuv", usually translated "Lord of the Flies". This probably should be "Lord of the Flyers", and refers to Satan being the head of a faction who possessed flying vehicles.
Fun Bible fact: King David was a longhead. If you look at the earlier translations and the Hebrew, he was said to be the "tallest from the shoulders up". Interestingly, this locks in with a couple of other facts.
It stems from the idea that these longheads seemed to be the Elites of their time. And it's not that Elites are considered beautiful, it's that they define what comes to be considered beautiful. How many men really liked fat butts before the Kardashians came along? Anyway....
The Bible says that David was the most beautiful man in the land. Here I would contend that it was precisely because his long head resembled that Elite standard of beauty.
Also, monkey-see monkey-do, so since people want to be beautiful, they end up always trying to emulate the Elite. And that's precisely why people would dream up the extremely bizarre practices of head-binding and cradle-boarding,
https://forwhatsaiththescriptures.org/2017/06/03/from-his-shoulders-and-upward-he-was-higher/
Yeah, that's a good example of one of the highly forced and ludicrous explanations given for these passages.
So we're supposed to believe this is how the Israelites would describe a tall person? One may compare to Deuteronomy 9:2, describing giants:
I encourage everyone to look at the various translations of 1 Samuel 9:2 that contain the word "head", and note that that word is not in the original Hebrew.
That was only one source who agrees with the summation that the term denotes height, not the slightly forced assertion that he was a rogue holdover example of skull elongation amongst his peers who didn't practice it at the time.
I'll say I can consider the plausibility of your thesis and give it some to be more diplomatic, but I find the argument to be lesser than the one that he was taller than most as that was the norm for leaders of the day.
I find many uses of words in the bible to have several meanings as ancient languages associated words differently than today due to shared consonants with missing vowels as well as words having intertwined or even 'inter-dimensional' meanings shared in one word, such as the word head. It can mean several things.
In this way Sitchin misled by purposeful mis-transliteration btw.
There are no god-men. That is the End Game meme.
Yeah, I've found that everyone ends up believing what they want to believe. The true manipulation lies in getting people to want to believe certain things, and they will themselves fill in everything after that as required. Few can escape this technique.
> longheads seemed to be the Elites of their time
wasn't David originally a sheepherder?
> How many men really liked fat butts before the Kardashians came along?
Oh. My. Gawd.
In burial grounds containing longheads, they are often segregated, with finer clothing and better grave goods. I have no information on how thicc they were.
Interestingly, at that time in Israel there had been no Elites at all until shortly before David. He was only the third king. The first, Saul, only became king after the Israelites insisted Yahweh appoint one.
In between the two was a mysterious character named Eshbaal (<-- whaaaat?).
Turns out it's specifically Satan, but that's a long story.
Here's one part of the story, though, where people get thrown off the trail: Baal (or Ba'al or Bel or Beel, etc) is usually translated as "lord". It also has the connotation of ownership, so a fuller translation might be something like "lord and master".
While this is just a title or descriptor and could apply to anyone--or any deity--in all my research I've only only come across one or two instances where I thought it might not be referring to Satan. But then, I also suspect that with deeper research I would have been able to make the connection.
So a "faraway" connection would be something like "Beelzebub" is really "Baal zevuv", usually translated "Lord of the Flies". This probably should be "Lord of the Flyers", and refers to Satan being the head of a faction who possessed flying vehicles.