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Originally Posted by Derek41
But in all seriousness, this story sounds like indigenous natives explanation about a peculiar rock formation.
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Originally Posted by Northsouth
You're not being truthful. Lot's wife did not turn to a pillar of salt because she supported LGBTQ, that's ridiculous. It was because they were told not to look back and she did.
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The Hebrews did not write that story. They borrowed it and then centuries later, Jeremiah and Hilkiah butchered it.
A little background is necessary to understand the original story.
Oddly, numerous Sumerian and Akkadian texts are referred to as "star lists" and they all begin with the constellation Pisces.
That is disturbing because the prior Age of Pisces was circa 24,000 BCE. That suggests that the constellations were developed and recognized at that time, although it is possible the Sumerians worked backwards.
They would have been able to work backwards because each "Age" of a constellation was 2,160 years, meaning it would take Earth 25,920 years to traverse the constellations. That comports with modern science.
However, it begs the question, "Why Pisces?"
Many of these star list texts contain brief comments about the Age. For example, in the Age of Capricorn, people ate people. That is supported by archaeology which notes a high rate of cannibalism among human remains found in many locations around the Mediterranean Basin Region. A harsh frigid climate is blamed.
The comment for Leo (the Lion) circa 12,000 years ago says a pair of sphinx were constructed to commemorate the Deluge (not the "Flood"). Several texts state one was in the land of Magan (Egypt) and the other in an unidentifiable place many believe was western India/Pakistan.
Archaeologists discovered structures in Jericho circa 9,500 BCE have frescoes of the Crab (Cancer) painted on the walls. That was the Age of Cancer.
There are many artistic expressions of the Twins (Gemini) fighting the Bull (Taurus) and then later in age, many motifs of the Bull fighting the Ram (Aries).
Our story starts here.
Marduk claimed the Deluge somehow disturbed Earth and the timing of the Ages was now skewed, specifically it was retarded.
The other gods disagreed, so Marduk went to war against them to enforce his right to rule.
Marduk's son was Nabu (Nebuchadnezzar is named after Nabu) had his armies in Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities of the plains poised to strike.
Ninurta and Nergal retrieved the seven awesome weapons of destruction and destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities of the plain to wipe out Nabu's armies.
The priest-in-training Abram/Abraham would have known that and had access to those stories since his father Terah was chief priest of god Ninurta in the city of Ur. It's hardly shocking that Terah would pick up and move his family, which included his son Abram/Abraham and his daughter Serai/Sarah (later would later be Abram/Abraham's wife) to the city of Haran which was the principle city of Ninurta known in the Hurrian language as Teshub.
Then Arbam/Abraham and his half-sister wife Serai/Sarah came to Canaan.
Centuries later, Jeremiah and Hilkiah re-wrote the story into a morality play.
As you might expect, the translators of the texts who are not connected to any god-thing because there is no god-thing can't properly translate the passage.
The word in question is a Sumerian-Akkadian word, not a Hebrew word, and it specifically refers to the strange gases often seen in the salt marshes common in the area at night.
Another word for gas is vapor.
Accordingly, a correct translation is that Lot's wife turned into a vapor.
A better translation is that Lot's wife was vaporized.
There is also an issue with the phrase "looked back." The correct translation is "turned back" and if the translators were actually connected to a god-thing they would know that.
So Lot's wife turned back and headed to Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities of the plain and got vaporized by whatever it was that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities of the plain.
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