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 quadrangular opening 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.
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.
