line map overview Ephesus-Efez (position of temple of diana)

Line maps new and old (very old) of ephesus.

Seraphis Ephesus Turkey, and Alexandria Egypt (modern parallels with islam)

"This temple was built for the Egyptian merchants. It was located on the Commercial Agora near the western gate. There is also another entrance into the temple from the south-west corner of the Agora through stairs.
There are certain indications that suggest the temple was never finished fully. It is estimated that the construction of the temple was started in the 2nd century A.D.
There is a statue found inside the temple made by using the Egyptian granite. Also some inscriptions found inside the temple indicate that the temple was constructed for those who believe in Serapis. In Ephesus Museum there is a monument on which the main Goddess of Ephesians, Artemis, and the principal god of Egypt, Serapis, take place together with garland as a symbol of peace.
It is well documented fact that Ephesus had a very strong commercial link with the influential port city of Egypt, Alexandria. During these ancient times Egypt was the biggest producer of wheat. They exchanged wheat with other commercial items from Ephesus and other Ionian cities.
It was converted to a church during the following Christian period. ..." - link. With many articles on places in ancient Ephesus.

391 ad-ce, distruction of the Temple of Serapis in Alexandria, Egypt.
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The Serapeum in Alexandra was destroyed by a Christian crowd in 391. Two conflicting accounts for the context of the destruction of the Serapeum exist.
According to early Christian sources,^{[clarification needed]} bishop Theophilus of Alexandria was Nicene patriarch when the decrees of emperor Theodosius I forbade public observances of any rites but Christian. Theodosius I had progressively made the sacred feasts of other faiths into workdays (389 ad-ce), forbidden public sacrifices, closed temples, and colluded in acts of local violence by Christians against major cult sites. The decree promulgated in 391 ad-ce that "no one is to go to the sanctuaries, [or] walk through the temples" resulted in the abandonment of many temples throughout the Empire, which set the stage for widespread practice of converting or replacing these sites with Christian churches.

In Alexandria, Bishop Theophilus obtained legal authority over one such forcibly abandoned temple of Dionysus, which he intended to turn into a church. During the renovations, the contents of subterranean spaces ("secret caverns" in the Christian sources) were uncovered and profaned, which allegedly incited crowds of non-Christians to seek revenge. The Christians retaliated, as Theophilus withdrew, causing the pagans to retreat into the Serapeum, still the most imposing of the city's remaining sanctuaries, and to barricade themselves inside, taking captured Christians with them.
These sources report that the captives were forced to offer sacrifices to the banned deities, and that those who refused were tortured (their shins broken) and ultimately cast into caves that had been built for blood sacrifices. The trapped pagans plundered the Serapeum (Rufinus & MacMullen 1984).

A letter was sent by Theodosius to Theophilus, asking him to grant the offending pagans pardon and calling for the destruction of all pagan images, suggesting that these were at the origin of the commotion. Consequently, the Serapeum was levelled by Roman soldiers and monks called in from the desert, as were the buildings dedicated to the Egyptian god Canopus. The wave of destruction of non-Christian idols spread throughout Egypt in the following weeks, as documented by a marginal illustration on papyrus from a world chronicle written in Alexandria in the early 5^th century, which shows Theophilus in triumph (illustration, above right); the cult image of Serapis, crowned with the modius, is visible within the temple at the bottom (MacMullen 1984).
A slightly different version^{[clarification needed]} of this account of the destruction of the Serapeum begins with bishop Theophilus closing down a Mithraeum, rather than the temple of Dionysus, but details of the ensuing profanation and insinuation of human sacrifices substantially agree.

A second account of the incident is found in writings by Eunapius, the pagan historian of later Neoplatonism. Here, an unprovoked Christian mob successfully used military-like tactics to destroy the Serapeum and steal anything that may have survived the attack. According to Eunapius, the remains of criminals and slaves, who had been occupying the Serapeum at the time of the attack, were appropriated by non-Christians, placed in (surviving) pagan temples, and venerated as martyrs (Turcan, 1996).
Whichever the incidental cause, the destruction of the Serapeum described by Christian writers Tyrannius Rufinus and Sozomen was but the most spectacular of such occasions, according to Peter Brown.^[6] While several ancient and modern authors have interpreted the destruction of the Serapeum in Alexandria as representative of the triumph of Christianity and an example of the attitude of the Christians towards pagans, Brown frames it against a backdrop of frequent mob violence in the city, where the Greek and Jewish quarters had fought since the first century BCE.^[7] Indeed, Eusebius of Caesarea mentions street-fighting in Alexandria between Christians and non-Christians occurring as early as 249 CE, and there is evidence that non-Christians had taken part in citywide struggles pro and against Athanasius in 341 and 356 CE. Similar accounts are found in the writings of Socrates of Constantinople. R. McMullan further reports that, in 363, Bishop George was killed for his repeated acts of pointed outrage, insult, and pillage of the most sacred treasures of the city.[8" - wiki data as at.

 Islamization of UK proceeding very well. (some crazed blogger with nothing better to do than post to a blog...how tiresome....) Something seems wrong with the 2004 figure.
The 2001 Census has a total of 1,591,000 Muslims in the UK, while the above figure of 1,087,000 for 2004 is much smaller."..The comments are good.
 Conservative blogger. ;
"The future governance of a multicultural Europe, creating domains of private activity justified by rights, cannot withstand such violence and will continue to suffer at the hands of Islam, effectively making the rightful citizens of the United Kingdom homeless within their own homes. The Western European polity, its cultural way of life, its historic religious grounding in Christianity, is, without a shadow of a doubt, fundamentally different from that order created under Islam. [!] The treatment of Islam in modern society has been, in spite of many complaints of political correctness, radically different. It might be thought that we could ignore the differences between Christianity, underpinning the Western way of life, and Islam, and instead, concentrate on their similarities. " 
...ahh similarities, ahh yess! Good old dionysus! Jesus was a socialist, Saint Peter a communist. humm. They have no Venus.
American Smokescreen, New York. Meaningful care by the who-cares? veiled hysteria... how very appropriate!
SIOE. dire twists and turns of the worms. lowest forms support israel? hights of [forgotten wisdom] take on the negative? where is the porn? Diana Diana Diana (and her dogs). The gods would protect cities, they did in a way.

Ephesus-Efez (Ephesia) photos, including almah Virgin Mary hut (and que)

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Top left photo-foto; the almah 'Virgin' Mary hut (a not likely term frankly for a mortal).
Almah means maid, maybe a step up from an Amat (servant or slave) often of the gods.

As usual there is a long que waiting their turn outside of Mary's house. So whats new?
Her hut is 7km south of Curates Street Ephesus, in ancient Ephesia or modern Izmir-province.

apocraphal legends say Mary died in Bethlehem and her remains were carried on a litter or bed to a tomb in Jerusalem in the valley of Kidron.... Catholic Dogma says she was taken up to heaven. 
Peter came from Rome, John came from Ephesus, to be with her as were a great many others. make of that legend what you wish, but the stone hut is a major shrine or chapel to her in a mostly moslem country. The Turks at that! still, if she had been with John in Ephesus...?

It is said Saint Luke was buried just south of Curates street amid some rocks. {this is doubtful, it is better described as a shrine to st.luke..now at least. He was in turkey it seems, but the evidence of the bull motif and healing (for Luke was a medic some say) are formerly of the God Seraphis a healer and osiris-apis-bull in zeus format; the church of Ephesus at later times might have mistaken the signs; that or it was a christianization of a pagan place....or his remains were moved. Novel thing is the offical remains are from well 130 ce so maybe Luke is not in Rome?? I dunno either}

The Church in Ephesus, who lost there first love and wondered why the church did not have a great temple (hint hint).... (found paul spoke in his circular of a pretend-temple for his invisable-god who has no neat-statue and threatened them with candle-stick-removal!! How you remove a pretend candle-stick from a pretend and invisable temple no-one knows...)

(looks like an early christian retirement area away from the ancient-troubles in Jerusalem) but many of the crosses in Ephesus are pagan symbols of Diana and the lunar cycle, later adopted by the christians as their own. (see the 600-500 bc coins of Efez)

People used to make excuses not to visit the Temple of Diana-Artemis when it was raining or damp and blamed the roads as the Temple was built in a marsh which floods into a pool of Diana.
The pool is there to wash the pilgrims.
so that ancient bunking-off excuse doesnt wash or hold water (groan).
And i suppose if it was not the rain and the roads then it was the heat!

There is a good reason the temple of diana was built in a sunken field (such as it is now). This is because the folklore and legend says that one day a wind dropped a statue of Diana from the sky and it landed in the marsh land. This was seen as divine providence by the farmers who build a temple for the goddess; and rebuilt it many times over for her. 

The Romans said the High-God Jupiter had sent her statue to Ephesus, but they would. All the marble seems to have been lifted and used to build the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (former Constantinople) during the christian administration.

More Ephesus (Efez), Turkey photos including the whore-house

I am going to link the Ephesus photos with the term Efez (its unlatinized name).

Top left picture (can click for larger verion after) is harbor street, leading to the grand theatre, also used as a mini-arena during the Roman occupation (as Saint Paul discovered). The couple in the picture are trying to make there escape from the heat of Ephesus to no avail as they will find the harbor sea has slilted up and turned into a marsh stretching 3 miles (thats more in km) to the modern coast! Thats what i call silting. The ancient Ephesons (or Ephesians) used to dredge up the silt and use it as fertilizer on the farms. Unfortunatly the Goddess Diana in her dubious-wisdom had over blessed Ephesus with too-much fertile-silt causing the retreat of the agean-sea. So long Posiden-Neptune god of the sea ; but alas! he took the commerce with him.

Turning Right-way, will lead to the Library of Celsus and common Bizzar-Agora-market place.
Bottom left Picture. Not as big as the one in Pergammon. Still the 3rd largest in the Roman Epmpire though. The invading barberain goths used it as a bonfire in 262 ce as they considered civilization to be detrimental to people. Very considerate of them.

From The Celsus Library the marble road is called Curates Street and goes eastwards~ leading to the Brothel ie whore-house, more turkish bath-houses, the public wc toilet potty - with undergound water flow, and past the Emperor-Hadrian Temple towards the State-Bizzar, town-hall and odeon theatre in the posh district.

The whore-house is rather on the large size but Ephesus was a big city (2nd largest in the Roman Empire!) and was identified by an inscription and the finding of an interactive terraphim statue of some god with a giant erect phallus (which means penis). These were used by-and-with the women of the brothel and even had a quasi-religious symbolism. There is an engraved female foot-print pointing to the brothel which was the ancient sign for the direction of the whore-house.

Other than the wonder of the world the temple of diana, there were also the temples of the anatolian goddess Cybel-Sibel the oracle with her eunoch priests near the Temple of Diana, Isis (or Isis-Hathor) in the state Bizzar, Temple of Seraphis near the Celsus Library, and serveral nymph-fountians (also used for immoral purposes) a bit like 'dogging car-parks'

Very hot in summer, very cold in winter (gets more extreme inland) and the ancient covered promanade has long-since collapsed (which lined the streets and edges of the bizzar to provide shade and coolness for the citizens - the centre of the main streets were reserved for chariots and wagons.

Gladitorial Armor of God (aka Armour of Light) St.Paul Ephesus

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Saint Paul beast-fighter gladiator in Ephesus (Divine Washer and rabble rousing Rioteer).
"If from human motives I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what does it profit me?" -Paul 1Corinthians 15:32 .
Armor of Light (aka Armor of God). Ephesians 6:11-17 .
"put on all the armor of God"
Article. Paul's dangerous fight.

youtube:
christian-hafiz recites Ephesians in costume, in the theatre of Ephesus. (part 1)
Gladiator Trailer. 1:26 min.

Greater was the Temple of Diana (St.Paul in Ephesus) x2 Parthenon Athens

At x2 or *2 the sise  of the Parthenon in Athens, the Temple of Diana-Artemis in Ephez'us was big!
And the artwork was maginificent! It also contained great-works of art.

St.Paul of the New Testiment (bible) spent some time in Ephesus (2nd largest city of the roman empire) thought he spent longer in Corinth.

St.Paul
"The third journey begins with Galatia (central region of Turkey) possibly in the spring of 54 AD and then Phrygia (Acts 18:23).

Then Paul arrives at Ephesus where he stayed for 3 years (Acts 20:31) probably from the fall of 54 AD to the fall of 57 AD. Paul meets disciples of John the Baptist. He preached in the synagogue for 3 months (Acts 19:8). He disputed daily in the school of Tyrannus for 2 years (Acts 19:9-10) [poss later the library-Celsus], so that all that dwelt in Asia heard the word. Paul sent Timothy and Erastus ahead into Macedonia, but Paul stayed in Asia for a season (Acts 19:22). Paul wrote 1 Corinthians near the end of this stay in Ephesus (1 Corinthians 16:8,19), probably in 57 AD. 

It was not written with Timothy, who Paul had sent ahead into Macedonia (Acts 19:22). Paul foresaw his route of travel for the next four or so years in Acts 19:21-22. This agrees with his plans in 1 Corinthians 16:1, 3, 5, 8-10. Note how the "great door" opened to Paul and "many adversaries" in verse 9 compares with the events in the Ephesian amphitheater in Acts 19:23-41. In 1 Corinthians 3:6, Paul says "Apollos watered". This refers to Apollos teaching in Corinth when Paul was at Ephesus (Acts 19:1).

Paul had rejoined Timothy when Second Corinthians was written (2 Corinthians 1:1). Paul had come to Troas and continued to Macedonia (2 Corinthians 2:12-13 and 7:5), where he was joined by Titus (2 Corinthians 7:6 & 13), which seems to correspond to Acts 20:1. Paul also talks of a third visit to Corinth in 2 Corinthians 13:1 and 12:14. So Second Corinthians was most likely written in the fall of 57 AD from somewhere in Macedonia (northern Greece), possibly at Philippi." - Paul Time.


Grotto of Saint Paul, with later paintings.
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According to the apocryphal Acts of St. Paul however, in the Ephesus the furious population 'put St. Paul's feet into irons, and shut him up in the prison, till he should be exposed as a prey to the lions. But Eubola and Artemilla, wives of eminent men among the Ephesians, being his attached disciples, and visiting him by night, desired the grace of the divine-ing washing. [They thought it ment of Diana, but Paul ment Baptism]
And by God's power, with angels to escort them and enlighten the gloom of night [by the moon of Diana] with the excess of the brightness that was in them, St. Paul, loosed from his iron fetters, went to the sea-shore and initiated them into holy baptism, and returning to his bonds without any of those in care of the prison perceiving it, was reserved as a prey for the lions'." [a lunatic! as an escapeee 'slave' he could have sought sanctuary at the Temple of Diana!! Who would have protected him....but St.Paul was unwilling to seek her refuge....This would have defeated his purpose.] - link.

The uswise went to meet the beasts in the heat. But starved animals are week, the bleeding are weeker. A back against the wall in the shade works well! 

perhaps the 'thorn in his flesh' came from this combat? [combat wound]
judgeing by the 'armor-of-god' he chose sword and shield, breast-plate and helm - and girdle belt over trident and net prefered by nubian-africans, but Paul recommened the former.

 Cave of St.Paul.

Map of ancient Efez (Efes, Ephesos, Ephesus) as in the bible NT.. west-coast Turkey, ghost-city!

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Map of Ephesus-Efez in its former eras (these days a ruin). click for big version, save if want as free-use image (as all on this blog are)! (I didnt say i was just the images)

What Happened to the Ghost-City?
Ephesus - the second largest city in the Roman Empire, 3rd largest library in the Roman Empire (Celsus), with a wonder of the world (Temple of Diana-Artemis), fell into ruin and was abandoned to be a ghost-city! This was because of the silting of the harbor (which is now 3 miles inland!!) - good for fertile farming, bad for commerce; though they did try in vain to dredge it; they were fighting against the forces of nature and the gods. They called it quits (except the local farmers - though even they were moved to Selcuk near the Temple Diana sunken-Field (as it is now) which floods into a pool of Diana, as the moving silting river created marsh-lands for mosquitos and malaria.
Sure the Goths  burnt it to the ground in 262 ce but Ephesus was used to this as long as the harbor could still be used! Some-times the goddess of nature wins.

link has photo-foto of modern-ruin ephesus, Efez, Izmir-provence Turkey. place of the 7 sleepers of the Quran (and in previous Catholic/OrthodoxChristian legend).
a map of Ephesus.
another map.
color map.

Celsus Library Efez (Ephesos-Ephesus-Efes) Ghost City

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Celsus ruin-Library ruin-Ephesus (117 ce)
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This library is one of the most beautiful structures in Ephesus. It was built in 117 A.D. It was a monumental tomb for Gaius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, the governor of the province of Asia; from his son Galius Julius Aquila. The grave of Celsus was beneath the ground floor, across the entrance and there was a statue of Athena over it. Because Athena was the goddess of the wisdom.
The scrolls of the manuscripts were kept in cupboards in niches on the walls. There were double walls behind the bookcases to prevent the them from the extremes of temperature and humidity. The capacity of the library was more than 12,000 scrolls. It was the third richest library in ancient times after the Alexandra and Pergamum." ...cont at link.
- Link. 


The statues symbolize wisdom (Sophia), knowledge (Episteme), intelligence (Ennoia) and [Excellence or Destiny/Virtue] valor (Arete) [Apeth]. These are the virtues of Celsus. The library was restored with the aid of the Austrian Archaeological Institute and  the originals of the statues were taken to Ephesus Museum in Vienna in 1910."
 (forget prowess, it was not a gladiators school).


Proverbs, OT BibleS. Wisdom (Sophia) aka Divine Sophia (shekhina) 8:12


Lit God in female form? or rather, first of his creations. enigma.
Wisdom in the Bible:
Proverbs 1:20-33
8:1-36 (ie whole chapter)
9:1-6 (prepares a table and invites people in off the street to drink wine with her). She has seven pillars.


8:12 youngs literal~
'I, wisdom, have dwelt with prudence, And a knowledge of devices I find out.'
Or 'Wisdom lives in Trickery and brings forth knowledge of Plans'.
She appeared to the ancient Greeks as Athena. 

Religious OverArch
NeoPlaton (NeoPlatonic/neo-platonism). incs the 70/Cosmic Gods concept, known to humans in classical times too. (a continuance of aquired insight).

Politics/business - modernization-professionalism; the administation of the machine. BNP article.

Hagia Diana (Hagia Sophia and the Temple of Deana) enigmata

The Cross-Figure with staves/snakes/candlesticks (it varied).
Many other Diana motifs appear such as the Epheson 'bees to flower' (cf old coins circa 600-500 bc or the Efez artemis skirt side (beautiful Diana) or the belt round her hips upon the great diana)) 

Diana'a illusive nude nymphs are harder to find (genie trick of the light). 
divine art of the hagia sophia. 2 star. Tree of Life. maddonna-theotokos and allah.

the virgin, t-shirt long-sleaves to cover arms.

Gobekli Tepe and Efez(us) Turkey, like a bee to flower

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Diana (Deana) of Ephez. Istanbul Archeology Museum.
Gobekli Tepe (wiki) ancient T and crosses cared with animal motifs.
sky buriels practiced at gobekli tete according to a vultures & corpse motif. (~as in iran)

development of art. 

music; youtuber, lily allen No Fair, one for Diana w/c Venus. audio
visusal version, with intro after. also dedicated to yIsrael and Netty of Likud-con.

Virgin t-shirt long-sleaved, (like Diana of Ephesus, the amazons who founded ancient efez spent their time hiding from Hercules (the strong/turk) and Dionysus who wanted to fuck them). more obvious than a purity ring.