I was talking doom with a co-worker yesterday. A colleague of his overheard me say something about wormwood (from Revelations), and how wormwood was a type of petrified wood that was used to make weapons in ancient times. Being mineralized as it would fossilize, it would hold an edge and was the poor man's (cannot afford to smelt) iron or bronze. It could easily be made into blades, etc. (much like a block of obsidian could be chipped into sharp edges, etc).
So, this is a bookmark for a later deep dive into the subject. I thought it was interesting and did not want to forget that interesting little tid-bit. Also, spent nuclear fuel is something that can be used in making weapons.
I would love to hear comments of similar knowledge or corroborating evidence.
Wasn't sure where else to post this, but found it interesting:
ReplyDeletehttp://nypost.com/2015/05/19/eerie-trumpet-sounds-are-coming-from-the-sky/
Now that's just weirdness. Sounds like a 6th grade band class.
DeleteI had a very knowledgeable institute teacher tell me that the Russian word for "wormwood" is "Chernobyl"... I have not been able to verify that one, either!
ReplyDeleteHere's another vid link from your annoying sister in law! It gets pretty good about halfway through....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNv1nGp2L6E
ReplyDeleteWormwood - a bitter, aromatic plant of the Old World, used as a vermifuge (serving to expel worms or other animal parasites from the intestines, as a medicine) and a tonic, and as an ingredient in absinthe (a green, bitter, licorice flavored liqueur).
ReplyDeleteAlthough the word wormwood appears several times in the Old Testament, translated from the Hebrew term לענה (la'anah, which means "curse" in Arabic and Hebrew), its only clear reference as a named entity occurs in the New Testament, in the Book of Revelation: "The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water— the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter."
I think that this might be an analogy reference in translation from Hebrew (term לענה) to Greek (ἀψίνθιον apsinthion) to English (Wormwood) and the term in the Book of Revelation might be better translated as “bitter curse”.