Ahmet Özcan
3-Salmanasur-Solomon (pbuh) and the Troy-Kadesh War
The third major traumatic event in history is the second destruction of Assyria in 538 BCE by the Iranians, i.e., the Persian invasion. Assyria, 2-3 centuries after its first destruction and after the battle in which King David, referred to in the Torah, and known in archaeology as Assyrian King Adad Nirari, defeated the Iranians in the 900s BCE (referred to as Talut and Goliath in the Torah and Qur’an, and David and Goliath in the Torah), under the leadership of his son Solomon, known as Assyrian King Salmanasar in the Torah as Slomo and in the Quran as Solomon (pbuh), had been resurrected. Its capital was again Nineveh, and it reassembled not only today’s Iraq and the Persian Gulf but also the Hittite-Urartu-Lydia, i.e., Anatolia, and the Mediterranean basin, i.e., Lebanon-Jerusalem and Egypt, forming the second Assyrian empire. During this period, there was also no tribe called Jews in the region, nor there was any structure called Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, upon which the Jews base their claims of occupation, Solomon’s magnificent palace was in Nineveh. The structure called the temple was the ziggurat-place of pilgrimage, in the city of Nippur near Baghdad, a stepped pyramid-like facility. This building, constructed during the time of Hammurabi-Abraham (pbuh), was actually a common house in the center of the city. It was a house of kindness-mercy, where orphans, the poor, immigrants, and widowed women sheltered and lived, maintained by the donations, sacrifices, vows, alms, and taxes of all city dwellers. Festivals and special days were celebrated here, and together with the leaders, the people discussed their common problems around this house, empathized, and shared. This house, later turned into pagan worship centers, is referred to as Beit in the Quran and Torah, and as masjid, meaning it’s not anyone’s property but God’s house, implying it is a common house (masjidil haram) belonging to everyone. In and around this house, crimes such as murder, theft, adultery, gossip, and other major sins were forbidden. Because humanity has evolved and become civilized-humanized thanks to the Home-House-Hearth-Family symbolized by this house. This tradition of a common house-Beit, later lived on in different forms as temples-churches/mosques in the center of every city and as parliament buildings in modern capitals. All the rituals of the Hajj in Islam, including the clothing (ihram, the clothing of Sam Urians. For a long time, it was also the clothing of the ancient Assyrians, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans.), are rituals of visiting this common Beit and sharing, solidarity, distributing sacrificial offerings to the poor, and reiterating the common human memory and belief. The Kaaba in Mecca-there were common house symbolic structures like the Kaaba in many parts of Yemen and the region-is still preserved by Muslims as a sign to humanity, the last example of the tradition of Ummul Kur’a and Beyt-House and masjid. (Today’s Mecca and Kaaba are under the occupation of a tribe of desert Jews of Indian origin, just like the other Jews, and are in a state that is completely unbecoming of the meaning and purpose of the Abrahamic-Muhammadi House-Masjid-Sacred Mosque.)
Kaaba means direction and indicates the final aspect of being Adam, that is, being Abrahamic. Hajj is the ritual of becoming ‘Adam’, as pure and clean as at the moment of birth, by shedding the mask of all temporary, finite, worldly identities and habits, differences and hostilities. The Children (Bani) Assyria, David, and Solomon’s Houses also exist in all the cities they ruled, but the kind of structure the Jews call a temple does not exist in the monotheistic tradition. The temple is an Indo-Iranian and pagan concept.
During the Salmanasur (pbuh) period, there was neither a temple nor anything related to Solomon in Jerusalem because at that time Jerusalem (Illios), as a small town-city where the peace had been signed after the Trojan War (BCE 1250), remained symbolically, and become insignificant. (Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Torah, but in the Tanakh. In the Torah, not Jerusalem, but Mount Gerizim in Nablus, the center of the Samaritans, is mentioned as the holy place.)
Solomon-Salmanasar (pbuh), lived around BCE 900-800, dominated mainly in the centers of Mediterranean trade, the ports of Antakya and Phoenicia, Troy-Sur, Sidon, Beirut, Tripoli, Baalbek, Byblos. Aleppo, Damascus, and perhaps Antioch were the most critical and developed central cities. Moreover, the issue has nothing to do with the Jews, whose name was not even mentioned at that time, because the community called Jews did not yet exist in the region at that time, and they had not even emerged as a tribe in their original homeland, India.
The Qur’an narrates that the Children of Assyria were blessed twice, made superior to other nations, and also destroyed twice due to corruption (Surah Isra, 4-7). It talks about the Assyrians. However, the Jews, brought to Mesopotamia by the Persians who invaded and destroyed the second Assyria, the kingdom of Solomon (pbuh), were a community brought from India after Assyria. They were never dominant, majority, or an important community. In 538 BCE, the Persians of the Achaemenid (Khamenei) dynasty gathered first in India-Afghanistan-Central Asia and the Caspian region, then strengthened in the Persian Gulf-Iraq basin, and later attacked and reoccupied Assyria following the old invasion map. The Persian invasion encompassed the Mediterranean coasts under Assyrian dominance, Egypt, Anatolia, and surrounded Ionia-Jonas’s (pbuh) people-who resisted for a long time in the Aegean region but were defeated and fled from this invasion across the Aegean Sea, then settling in the region called Hellen. (The word ‘Hellen’ also comes from Ionia, i.e., Nineveh-Jonas (pbuh). After the Persian invasion, the population brought by the Persians settled in this region and this Indo-Iranian people were known as Greeks. The original Assyrian-descended people are the Helen-Elenes. (Elen-Elanu-Almighty means the sky/the high of the sky, Alanya, Alahan, Illios, they are all concepts from the same root and are of Assyrian origin.)
During this invasion, under the leadership of Darius, the Persians also advanced to Macedonia and Bulgaria and dominated the entire region for 200 years despite great resistance. This period of 200 years, both in Egypt and in Ionia and Hellen cities, continued the Assyrian-Babylonian-Egyptian knowledge and faith tradition through special educations, mostly conducted secretly in various schools and sects. Names known today as philosophers like Hermes, Anaximenes, Thales, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Zeno, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, etc., were actually a kind of prophet-messenger mission that recorded and passed this accumulation to the future generations. Ionian-Hellen civilization, Hellen philosophy, Philosophy schools and sects, are the recorded-book-turned legacy of the Assyrian-Babylonian-Egyptian, i.e., Abraham-Moses-Jonas tradition. The myth of Greek civilization, meticulously cleansed of its roots and reimagined by Europeans in the 18th and 19th centuries to flatter the Greeks against the Ottomans, creating a non-religious-secular atmosphere to also overthrow their own churches, is actually this. Assyria, or the Children of Israel, is the reality of this myth.
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-Those interested can also look at Sumer, Assyria, Babylon, Hammurabi, Shalmaneser, Ramses, Israel, David, Solomon, Elam, Iran, Persia, Cyrus, Alexander, Homer-Iliad, Greece, and other related articles.
Source: https://kritikbakis.com/en/what-is-the-judaism-what-is-not/