• Choose a category
• All
• Classic-Fiction

By Root 1134 0

suggest that the Golgotha which was the actual place of the sacrifice must have been situated elsewhere. Golgotha, Goulgoleth in Hebrew, was both a common and proper name, and one may infer that Jesus was crucified on one of the numerous hills in Palestine described as a goulgoleth. It would also appear that Goulgoleth was an expletive form of Golgola ... and that Golgola is the same as Gilgal. Now, Gilgal is both a common name signifying a circle (applicable to the ancient megalithic circles that we call cromlechs-namely, the sacred or high places of Canaan) and also a proper name of several cities. If Jesus was sacrificed on a gilgal-namely, an ancient cromlech-we are face to face with the most ancient of Palestinian cults. . . . The Bible, in fact, narrates that a certain place called Gilgal was the principal centre of the patriarch Iehoshoua-namely, Jesus-Joshua.... Jesus-Joshua the ancient patriarch, who appears to have been a Palestinian god ... At all events the fact remains that Golgotha of the gospels is a gilgal, that a gilgal is a sacred circle in Palestine, and that it was in a gilgal that the old Jesus-Joshua had his headquartersnamely, a sanctuary.77

Indeed, in the OT, there are only three cases of crucifixion, all of which are kings, seven in total, sacrificed by Joshua at the "high places" of Gilgal, Ai and Makkeda. These sacred kings are sacrificed not by Joshua/Jesus but in his name.

In addition, the Mexican savior-god and solar myth, Quetzalcoatl, was also crucified at the "place of the skull," long before contact with Christians. Skulls and necromancy are also a large part of Tibetan Buddhist religion, among many others over the millennia.

It should also be noted that there were "calvaries," i.e., sacred mounts where a cross was erected, in numerous places prior to the Christian era. These mounts were usurped by Christians, and the crosses made into Christian versions.

The Crucifixion

As we have seen, a number of savior-gods and goddesses have been executed or crucified in atonement for "sins" and/or as a fertility rite. As part of the standard sacred king drama, the crucifixion of the "King of Kings" is in no way historical, except that it happened thousands of times around the globe. In the ancient world, there were two basic types of crucifixion: punitive or expiatory. Although evemerists have tried to find in Jesus a "historical" criminal who was punitively executed, the fact is that his crucifixion is allegorical, not factual, and expiatory, not punitive.

Although the typical sacrificial victim was killed before being placed on the cross, tree or stake, in the expiatory sacred king drama, which was more important and ritualistic than the average sacrifice, the victim remained alive as part of the play, so he could utter mournful words and garner pity from the audience.

In addition, Jesus would have been crucified at the holy time of Passover only if he were an expiatory sacrifice. As Graham says:

Now is it not strange that the crucifixion should take place during the Passover? Among the Jews this was a most sacred occasion. For them to crucify anyone at this time, they would have to break at least seven of their religious laws.78

Dujardin sums it up:

The crucifixion was a reality, but it was not a judicial execution; it was a sacrifice. And there was not simply one historic sacrifice, but innumerable crucifixions of the god Jesus in Palestine.79

Although the ritual was reduced to a human drama, it is ultimately symbolic:

The Christian doctrine of the crucifixion with the victim raised aloft as the sin-offering for all the world is but a metaphrastic rendering of the primitive meaning, a shadow of the original ... 80

Degenerate when reenacted upon the planet, the "crucifixion" is properly the "crossification" of the sun through the equinoxes, which is why there are differing accounts of the crucifixion in the NT. In the first account Jesus's mother is absent from the scene, actually representing the vernal equinox, when the constellation of Virgo is not a factor. The crossification/crucifixion