To have a graveyard for a friend,
Caesar's Garden for a lawn.
Is this the Wisdom of Evening,
or the vanity of dawn.
Oh Israel!
Oh Jacob...
The stones of Jerusalem.
So old, and yet so young...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
To have a graveyard for a friend
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"Gentlemen, you have transformed
our country into a graveyard
You have planted bullets in our heads,
and organized massacres
Gentlemen, nothing passes like that
without account
All that you have done
to our people is
registered in notebooks"
Mahmoud Darwish
//To have a graveyard for a friend//
That reminded me of this, from Wikipedia, about GEHENNA:
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The southwestern gate of Jerusalem, overlooking the valley, came to be known as "The Gate of the Valley" (Hebrew: שער הגיא). Jeremiah 7:31; 19:2-6; 32:35; the Book of Jeremiah (2:23) speaks of residents worshipping Moloch and committing abominations, foreshadowing the destruction of Jerusalem.
In ancient times, children were sacrificed to the pagan god Molech in Gehenna, a practice that was outlawed by King Josiah (2 Kings, 23:10). Biblical commentator Rashi explains that priests would bang on drums (Hebrew: tof, tupim) (Hebrew: תופים) so fathers would not hear the groans of children being sacrificed. Hence the name Topheth.
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the part that strikes me the most is this:
//committing abominations, foreshadowing the destruction of Jerusalem//
Ghouls and zombies, the friends of graveyards, the Undead, to be destroyed by the coming light of the Sun. They must be excited, the Apocalyptic christians.
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