5,000 Year Old Monument To Sin Uncovered In Israel

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/11101656/Ancient-moon-god-monument-unearthed-in-Israel.html

Ancient 'moon god' monument unearthed in Israel
A structure once believed to form part of an ancient town is identified as a 5,000-year old monument believed to have been used to honour the Mesopotamian moon god 'Sin'

A 5,000-year-old stone structure in the shape of the crescent moon in northern Israel has been identified to be an ancient monument, predating much of the construction of Stonehenge in England and Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.
The structure, known as Rujum en-Nabi Shua'ayb or Jethro Cairn, is located near the Sea of Galilee.
It was initially discovered in the early part of the 20th century, and was thought to form part of an ancient city's defensive walls.
But doctoral student Ido Wachtel from Hebrew University in Jerusalem recently made a convincing case that the construction served as a monument in its own right.
“The proposed interpretation for the site is that it constituted a prominent landmark in its natural landscape, serving to mark possession and to assert authority and rights over natural resources by a local rural or pastoral population,” Mr Wachtel wrote in a paper submitted to an archaeology conference in Switzerland.

Presenting his findings at the International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Mr Wachtel said the structure may have been erected to honour the ancient Mesopotamian moon god, ‘Sin’.
One of the most important gods in Mesopotamian mythology, Sin, also known as ‘Nanna’, is symbolised as a crescent moon and is often depicted riding on a winged bull.

The structure was found close to the ancient Israeli town of Bet Yerah, which translates as "house of the moon god", and is believed to have been linked to the town's religious community.
The vast structure, which is 150 metres long with a volume of 14,000 cubic metres, is thought to have taken more than five months to build.

So tell all of your religious friends that mankind was worshipping sin way before their religion. Johnny come latelies, the lot. 

Beer, sin and pot all predate modern religion. Old school works for me.

And btw indicates that a pastoral non- Jewish population had first dibs on the place. So much for ownership rights.

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So tell all of your religious friends that mankind was worshipping sin way before their religion.

And seemingly by Christian rules, the older a tradition, the more we should venerate it.  The ancients were in possession of truths that have escaped the modern world and they had long ago found answers to things so mysterious that they are ignored by scientists today.  Yes sir, those bronze age goat herders didn't need no schoolin'.  They were wise without all them books.

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And seemingly by Christian rules, the older a tradition, the more we should venerate it.  The ancients were in possession of truths that have escaped the modern world and they had long ago found answers to things so mysterious that they are ignored by scientists today.  Yes sir, those bronze age goat herders didn't need no schoolin'.  They were wise without all them books.

Yup, and now we can predate them with good ol' sin worship. I'll be veneratin' me some beer here in the near future.

[Minimalist]

In 2008 a seal depicting Sin was found in Jerusalem.  It was dated to the 6th century BC.  Xtians went nuts claiming that it "proved" the bible.  What it proved was that the Babylonians had burned the city to the ground and were running things.

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The Sumerians had a legend about how the gods had created man happy; and how man, by his free will, had sinned, and been punished with a flood, from which one man---Tagtug the weaver---had survived. Tagtug gave up a long life and health by eating the fruit of a forbidden tree. Proof that Christianity is true.  Solitary

[Minimalist]

They also had a "Job" story....or rather, the much later Jews borrowed their tale and concocted "Job."

http://www.ancient.eu/article/226/

The Ludlul-Bel-Nimeqi is a Babylonian poem which chronicles the lament of a good man suffering undeservedly.

It seems there is nothing original in the fucking bible at all!

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The god's name is Sin. They aren't talking about the act of sin.

Anyway... Mesopotamian mythology is very fascinating. I always love going in to that section of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to look at all of it and soak in the stories. They are so remote from the things most people talk about like the more popular mythologies like Greek mythology.

[Munch]

Sadly the suggested timeframe of it would just give Christians more weight to there belief in the existence of there own.