Phoenicians sailed to Scandinavia? - Ales Stenar in Sweden points directly at Baalbek in Lebanon
Is this the final proof that the Phoenicians sailed to Scandinavia?
Ales Stenar is a megalithic ship-setting, that functioned as a sun-calendar; marking solstices and equinoxes. It has sometimes been referred to as "the Stonehenge of Sweden".
Placed on the most southern tip of Scania, it looks out over the Baltic Sea.
Before the 20th Century, Scandinavian historians and scholars were convinced, that not only the British isles, but also Scandinavia, and the Baltic Sea, had been visited by the Phoenicians.
Many of the rock carvings in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, depict ships, some of whom show similarities to ships from the Mediterranean, during the Bronze Age.
The Bronze Age in Scandinavia was a very rich culture, judging from the very many finds of bronze, silver and gold objects from that time. The climate was also warmer, making it easier for ships coming from southern Europe, to cross over from Britain, to Scandinavia, and even into the Baltic.
The Phoenician word for "darkness", "obscurity", is thul, which reminds much of the ancient's word for a distant island, or land, in the mostly unknown north.
It thus seems it was the Phoenicians, that gave the name Thule to the north, and then it was picked up by Greeks, and later the Romans.
Ales Stones in Kaseberga seen from the Baltic Sea
The political and economic centers of the Phoenicians lay along the eastern Mediterranean, in nowaday's Syria, Lebanon, and Israel. But their main religious site, was undoubtably situated in the valley between the two snow-covered mountains that stretch from the south-western Lebanon, to Syria in the north-east. These were also the mountains were the famous Cedar trees grew, from which all cultures in the ancient world, either bought, or stole, timber for their palaces and temples.
This religious center was called Heliopolis by the Greeks, and Baalbek by the locals. From Baalbek, the two rivers Litani and Orontes flow, like two streams of tears from a head source, called Ros Al Ayn, ie the "head source" This geographical scene, with the two mountains and the two rivers, is depicted on many ancient cylinder seals throughout the Middle East. It symbolized the most holy place of the Phoenicians, and their ancestors the Arameans, and was easily recognized by all who knew their mythology at that time.
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Now back to the connection between the Phoenician sailors and traders, and Ales Stenar and Scandinavia.
If you draw a line between the two end-stones in Ales Stenar, and follow this line to the city Baalbek in Lebanon, you will come EXACTLY to the temple area, where the Temple of the Sun is.
Furthermore, this line points exactly at the point on the horizon, where the Sun rises at Winter Solstice (135.13-14 degrees, at this latitude). This is a VERY strong indication, that Ales Stenar has to do with the Phoenicians.
Anyone can use Google Earth, and Stellarium, to check this out.
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Baalbek - Heliopolis, City of the Sun
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Baalbek is the location where the Book of Enoch places the habitation of the descended, corrupt angels, "between Lebanon and Seneser" (Senir). Senir is a mountain situated in the same ridge as Mount Hermon, but a bit north-east of it. Right between these two mountains, is the place where all the ancient legends and stories place the gathering place of the "Sons of God", angels that had abandoned Heaven, and chosen to live on Earth, and breed with human women, creating a race of Giants, called the "Nephilim", according to the Bible, the Book of Enoch, and other ancient sources.
This place was later commemorated, and huge temples and monuments were built.
The Temple of the Sun, later called the Temple of Jupiter, was when it was rebuilt by the Romans, the world's largest temple (much bigger than f.ex the Parthenon Temple at Acropolis in Athens).
A solar calendar in the form of a ship, pointed at the sunrise at the Winter Solstice, at the same time pointed at the City of the Sun - can anyone deny that there is a connection, between Ales Stenar, and the sea-faring Phoenicians?
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Ales Stenar and the number 9
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Distance between Ales Stenar's midpoint - Temple of the Sun in Baalbek: 1818.54 miles.
Sunrise during the Winter Solstice at Ales Stenar: 135 degrees.
Sunset during the Winter Solstice at Ales Stenar: 225 degrees.
Sunrise during the Summer Solstice at Ales Stenar: 45 degrees.
Sunset during the Summer Solstice at Ales Stenar: 315 degrees.
All these numbers, if you sum up the digits, will be 9.
The number 9 was considered holy in the ancient cultures.
9 multiplied upwards always gets a number order which summed is 9:
1x9=9. 2x9=18 (1+8=9). 3x9=27 (2+7=9) etc. infinitely.
According to an Egyptian tale, there were 9 gods living in the valley where Baalbek now is.
Phoenician Alphabet
The Phoenician letter "tet", which has the numerical value 9, looks like a ring with a diagonal cross in it. 𐤈
If you draw lines in Ales Stenar between the four intercardinal points 135, 225, 45, and 315 (marking sunrises and sunsets at the solstices (midsummer and midwinter), you get a similar, symmetrical cross.
As far as I know it is only at Ales Stenar that this can happen, only on that longitude and latitude (it is possible there are more places, but in that case it is still very rare, and in such cases the distance to the Temple of the Sun in The City of the Sun (Heliopolis/Baalbek) is not the same.
It is only in the Phoenician alphabet that the letter/number tet takes the form of a solstice cross.
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If the Phoenician letter/number teth denoted the turning points of the sun at midsummer and midwinter, then it is natural that they may have sought the place in the north, where the turning points were symmetrically equal, that is, where a complete equilibrium prevailed on earth. This place may then have been considered a very sacred place, especially for those who were sun worshipers, or conferred on their god power over the sun.
These facts further confirm the connection between these ancient sites, and the Phoenicians.
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