BAALBEK
- LEBANON'S SACRED FORTRESS
Andrew Collins, investigates one of the world's greatest enigmas - the Great Platform at Baalbek in Lebanon and uncovers its links with giants, Titans and a previously unknown culture.
NOTES1.
Ragette,
Baalbek, p. 33.
2. Ibid., p. 114.
3. Alouf, M. M., History of Baalbek, p. 98.
4. Ibid., p. 39, quoting a story told by Estfan Doweihi, a Maronite
Patriarch.
5. Ibid., p. 41, quoting an Arab manuscript actually found at Baalbek.
6. Ragette, p. 16.
7. Ibid., p. 27, cf. Kalayan, 1969.
8. Ibid., p. 16.
9. Ibid., p. 16, quoting Josephus.
10. Ibid., p. 17.
11. Alouf, p. 50.
12. Ibid. pp. 42-4.
13. Ragette, p. 19.
14. See Ibid., p. 20 & accompanying pl. on f/p.
15. Ibid., p. 30.
16. Ibid., p. 27.
17. Ibid., p. 30.
18. Ibid., p. 31, cf. Kalayan, 1969.
19. Ibid., pp. 31-2.
20. Alouf, p. 98. The sizes of the blocks from right to left are given
as 65 feet, 64 feet 10 inches and 63 feet 2 inches.
21. Ibid., p. 98
22. Ibid., p. 99
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid., p. 106.
25. Ragette, p. 33.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid., pp. 33-4.
29. Ibid., pp. 34.
30. Ibid., p. 115
31. Ibid., p. 115.
32. Alouf, p. 106, quoting Louis F licien de Saulcy.
33. Ibid., p. 115.
34. Ibid., p. 115.
35. Ibid., p. 33.
36. Ibid., p. 119.
37. Ibid., p. 116.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid., p. 94.
40. See Renan, 1864.
41. Ragette, p. 94.
42. Ibid., p. 94.
43. Ibid.
44. Cory, p. viii.
45. Sanchoniatho, quoted by Cory., p. 9.
46. Ibid., p. 7.
47. Ibid., p. 11.
48. Ibid., p. 14.
49. Ibid., p. 14.
50. Ibid.
51. Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, p. l.
52. Ibid.
53. Ibid., p. l, n 3.
54. Ibid., p. l.
55. Herm, The Phoenicians, p. 114
56. Ibid.
57. Ibid.
58. See Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods, 1995; Bauval & Hancock,
Keeper of Genesis, 1996; Collins, From the Ashes of Angels, 1996.
59. Alouf, p. 32
60. Ibid., p. 47-8, cf. Macrobius, Saturnalia, L.I.C. 23.
61. Ibid., p. 47, cf. Volney, Voyage en Syrie, p. 228.
62. Ibid., cf. De De’ Syriae & Macrobius, L.I.C. 23.
63. See, for instance, Gen. 6:1-2,4.
64. See the author's From the Ashes of Angels, Ch. 16.
65. See, for instance, the works of Berossus, Eupolemus, Alexander Polyhistor
and the Sibylline Oracles, as quoted by Cory.
66. Alouf, p. 41.
67. Ibid., quoting a traveller named d'Arvieux' from his M moires,
Part IIe, Ch. 26, c. 1660.
68. See, for instance, Berossus, Alexander Polyhistor and the Sibylline
Oracles quoted by Cory.
69. Lempriere, Classical Dictionary, c.v. `Gigantes', p. 249.
70. Ibid. & Eupolemus, quoted in Cory, p. 53.
71. Thallus, quoted by Cory, p. 53
72. Hapgood, Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings, p. 221.
73. Sanchoniatho, quoted in Cory, p. 10.
74. Alouf, p. 39.
75. Indeed, local tradition asserts that the region around Baalbek was
the stamping ground of Genesis characters such as Adam and his sons
Abel, Cain and Seth. See Ibid., p. 39. The reality of such myths is
quite another matter, especially as equally strong traditions associate
the pre-Flood events of the Book of Genesis with Turkish and Iraqi Kurdistan.
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