Albrecht Durer’s Magic Square

A lot of this goes over my head. I’m not an astrologer. But I know someone who will understand this much better than me (!) Interesting, nonetheless.   Zodiac Johann Kleberger.  Astronomy and Magic in the Picture of Dürer A.V. Lantratov 1. The ambiguity of reading the old dates.  “The Magic Square” by Albrecht Durer The […]

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Castel Sant’Angelo

Otherwise known as The Mausoleum of Hadrian, has four famous tombs. Four famous Caesars. Hadrian, Luicius Verus, (father) Luicius Verus, (son) and Commodus. Confusing, Crazy history books! Its also famous as the prison which held, amongst others, Giordano Bruno and Alessandro Cagliostro. Andronicus I Comnenus was probably buried in Egypt with the rest of his […]

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From The Life of Hadrian

From The Life of Hadrian :   “After this he travelled to Spain and spent the winter at Tarragona, (The image above is Tarragona, Spain. G.B.) and here he restored at his own expense the temple of Augustus. To this place, too, he called all the inhabitants of Spain for a general meeting, and when […]

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Before the Rooster Crows…?

From Historia Augusta : The Life of Lucius Verus   “One such banquet, indeed, became very notorious. This was the first banquet, it is said, at which couches were placed for twelve, although there is a very well-known saying about the proper number of those present at a banquet that “seven make a dinner, nine […]

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Комнин – Komnin

From Historia Augusta – The Life of Lucius Verus   “For he had a golden statue made of the “Green” horse Volucer, (FLYER) and this he always carried around with him;  indeed, he was wont to put raisins and nuts instead of barley in this horse’s manger and to order him brought to him, in […]

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Antinous

WikiWeAllBelieveYou Page : Antinous   As a child, I kind of fell in love with Antinous. The pretty boy. The beloved companion of Hadrian. Marguerite Yourcenar wrote a wonderful book – Memoires of Hadrian. If….   PAX ROMANA   …is true. Then Antinous can only be one person. John.

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Pax Romana

The Pax Romana lasted 1000 years. Well, that’s “their” story. Now –     “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones;”         Cheap, I know. But I […]

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Tepe-Kermen – The Ancient Cave City

Three km from Chufut-Kale lies Tepe-Kermen – the Ancient Cave City.   The Church inside Tepe-Kermen …   … “with two entrances and three windows. In the altar were six roughly worked columns, of which only three survived; outside the altar, carved large crosses. In one of the inner corners of the church a stone box of a […]

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Mariamopolis

And I quote:   “The name of Mary left a deep imprint in the names associated with Chufut-Kale. As it turns out, in addition to the old necropolis in the Gorge of Mary, here, very close, there was a settlement called the CITY of MARIA – Mariampolis, Mariampolis is located on the same side of […]

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Cathar Crosses and Chufut-Kale

  THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE CATHARS – PART ONE   Ref the image above: “Stone gravestones from the crypts of the necropolis in the Gorge of Mary, near Chufut-Kale. On the tombstone on the left we see the Christian cross, and on the right gravestone is the Qatari cross. “   “Finds from the necropolis […]

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Just Down the Road from Bakhchisarai…

,,,is a place called Chufut-Kale   Me…months ago….Chufut-Kale     “Chufut-Kale was revered as the second most holy city after Jerusalem.”   Andronicus I Comnenus and his mother spent a long time here. She was buried here.   “In the 6th century, one of the most famous cave cities, Crimea, presumably built by the Alans and […]

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The Assumption Monastery of the Caves

ikiWPage: Bakhchisaray Cave Monastery       “In 1787, Empress Catherine II personally arrived in Crimea. In the Khan’s Palace, “to the left of the entrance, in front of the bridge, stands the Catherine’s Verst” with the inscription “Summer of 1787”, installed in honor of the arrival of the Russian Empress in Bakhchisarai >> Thus, at […]

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