Thursday, April 11, 2013

Mysterious Structure Beneath the Sea of Galilee the Possible Burial Place of Jerah, Grandson of Eber (Bet Yerah site connected to Tell Khaiber)

Ancient Stone Structure Located Beneath the Sea of Galilee

By:  Marshall Ramsey II, Worthy News U.S. Correspondent

SEA OF GALILEE, Israel - An ancient stone structure has been found in the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel.  It rises almost 32 feet (10 m) high, has a circumference of about 230 feet (70 m), and weighs an estimated 60,000 tons.  As a comparison, Stonehenge is only half as big around, the tallest stones don't reach as high, and the structure weighs more than most modern-day battleships.(1)

It was first detected during a sonar survey of the southwestern portion of the Sea of Galilee in 2003.(1)  Yitzhak Paz of the Israeli Antiquities Authority and Ben-Gurion University believes the structure could date back more than 4,000 years.

"The more logical possibility is that it belongs to the third millennium B.C., because there are other megalithic phenomena [from that time] that are close by," he said in an interview with LiveScience.(2)  Paz also said that the structure indicates that those who made it were a "well-organized society, with planning skills and economic ability."

The structure is believed to be connected to the excavation site Tel Bet Yerah, the remains of a building recently discovered at Tell Khaiber(3) in ancient Ur, Iraq, and in the genealogy of the Hebrews in the book of Genesis.  The site called Tell Bet Yerah was built by Jerah, the fourth son of Joktan, one of two sons born to the biblical Heber, the other being his older brother Peleg, or Phalec.(4)(5)(6)

Due to the man-made nature of the structure, it appears to be a burial place of some sort, reminiscent of certain Eskimo practices (7) and that of Native American and early Bronze Age practices.(8)  If considering the alternate meaning for the name Bet Yerah, which is 'house of the moon god', and applying it to the Canaanite religion, then what we have is the flesh and blood identity of Yarikh, the Canaanite moon god.  It is quite possible that due to the closeness of Tel Bet Yerah, the stone structure in the Sea of Galilee may in fact be the burial place of Jerah.

With the identification of Yarikh as Jerah, we can now tell a great deal of what he was like.  As Yarikh, Jerah was given the epithets (words or phrases applied to a person or thing used to an actual or attributed quality)(9) "illuminator of the heavens," "illuminator of the myriad of stars," and "lord of the sickle."  These names indicate that Jerah was a stellar cartographer, or, one who maps out stars.  They also indicate that Jerah was active in plotting the orbit of the moon around the earth, possibly in relation to a harvest (lord of the sickle), as the ancient Israelites did when figuring for the barley harvest in relation to Passover.  The ancient city of Jericho, which Joshua and the Israelites destroyed when entering the land of Canaan, bore his name, thus indicating that Jerah ruled over a wide area, from the Sea of Galilee in the north, to Jericho in the south, which is located above the Dead Sea, and on the eastern shore of the Jordan river.

Given this information, it is possible that Rahab the harlot, paternal great-grandmother of King David.  Another interesting fact is the relationship of Jerah to Eber.  As Yarikh, he was married to the 'goddess' Nikkal (10)(possible origin or same as the Greek goddess Nike), who was the daughter of Khirkhibi, the Summer-king.  Nikkal is alternately called Nikkal-wa-Ib(11), meaning "Nikkal, daughter of Ib." (This definition differs from the one referenced.)  Ib is a shortened form of the word ibri, which is in turn a variation of the word Eber.  This then identifies Nikkal as a daughter of Eber, Jerah's grandfather.  It also identifies Eber as Khirkhibi, the Summer's-king.

It is possible that because the structure is located so closely to the Tel Beit Yerah excavation site that it is a burial mound of the biblical Jerah and his family, although the need for such large boulders, and in such a large quantity, is hard to see at this point.  In any case, we now have a migration route of sorts


(a) http://news.yahoo.com/mysterious-stone-structure-discovered-beneath-sea-galilee-111707097.html
(d) http://rt.com/news/galilee-israel-underwater-structure-642/
(4) http://conspiracyprophecyguy.blogspot.com/2013/04/ancient-building-found-at-tell-khaiber.html
(5) http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Jerah.html#.UWXXvaKG2So
(6) http://av1611.com/kjbp/kjv-bible-text/Ge-10.html
(y) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarikh
(7) http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/85256/burial
(8) http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/54170/barrow
(9) http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/epithet
(10) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkal
(11) http://www.thaliatook.com/OGOD/nikkal.html

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