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I keep coming back to Baalbek, in the Bekaa valley of Lebanon. The Roman temples are not in doubt. What sits underneath them is another matter: some of the heaviest cut stones anyone has ever moved, and a few in the quarry that were never moved at all.
On this page I gather what the site says about Baalbek: the flood memory kept by its priests, the megaliths, the readings that tie it to the Tower of Babel and the Anunnaki, and the god Baal who gave it its name.
A flood memory at Baalbek
Andrew Tomas recorded a story from Lucian about the priests of Baalbek pouring sea water into a cleft in the rock, to remember the waters of the Deluge. See Andrew Tomas: Atlantis from Legend to Discovery and Deucalion.
About eighteen hundred years ago Lucian recorded a remarkable story which illustrates how strong the traditions of the Great Flood were in antiquity. The priests of Baalbek, now in the Lebanon, had the curious custom of pouring sea water from the Mediterranean into a cleft in the rock near the temple to perpetuate the memory of the waters of the Deluge pouring away into it, as also the rescue of Deucalion. To get this sea water, the priests had to travel to the seashore of the Mediterranean and then back to Baalbek, for as long as four days. It is worthy to remark that this cleft is the northern end of the Great Rift which extends as far south as the Zambezi River. This priest rite may be a folk memory of a great cataclysm.
Atlantis from legend to discovery
The megaliths
The wall around the Temple of Jupiter holds the trilithon, three blocks that each weigh about 900 tons. In the quarry nearby lie even heavier blocks that never left it. Who cut them, and when, is the open question.
Each of these three blocks weighs 900 tons.
Graham Hancock, Megaliths Hancock Says Were Misdated, at 0:29
A wall the provenance for which has not been established by archaeology.
Graham Hancock, Megaliths Hancock Says Were Misdated, at 0:40
- Megaliths Hancock Says Were Misdated: Hancock accepts the temples as Roman, but asks why the Romans would leave blocks of 1,000 tons and more unused in the quarry.
- What DeDunking wanted to say on Joe Rogan: Dan argues that Roman lifting gear rated near six tons could not raise the largest Baalbek blocks.
- Dan on Noah labels, floods, and debunking: a missing building record at Baalbek is not, on its own, a verdict about the builders.
- LiDAR Reveals Incredible Lost Civilizations?: the tool marks at Baalbek are compared with those of modern tunnel boring machines.
Churchward and the lost builders
James Churchward called the ruins the most majestic ancient structures on earth. He wrote of a 1,200-ton stone lying cut and finished in a pit, of temples never finished and shaken down by earthquakes, and he thought the builders were ancient Greeks. See James Churchward: The Children of Mu and James Churchward: The Lost Continent of Mu.
Baalbek and the Tower of Babel
In the reading of Jim Marrs, following Zecharia Sitchin, Baalbek was a post-Flood center of the Anunnaki, and an Arabic text found there says Nimrod tried to build a shem. That story leads straight into the Tower of Babel. See Sumer, the First Known Civilization, The Tower of Babel and Who is Enki.
Baal, Hadad and Mount Hermon
The name comes from Baal, and Baal Bek appears on the site as a major center of worship with a grand temple complex in the Roman period, known then as Heliopolis. See Baal, Hadad and Mount Hermon, the nearby mountain of the Watchers.
