Temples of Baalbek and Anjar

Visit of / Visite de / Besuch von / Visita de / Chiamata di de Baalbek & Anjar
زياره بعلبك / Baalbekの訪問 / Baalbek의 방문 / 访问巴勒贝克
Baalbek (Arabic: بعلبك‎) is a town in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, altitude 3,850 ft (1,170 m), situated east of the Litani River. It is famous for its exquisitely detailed but monumentally scaled temple ruins of the Roman period, when Baalbek, known as Heliopolis was one of the largest sanctuaries in the Empire. It is located at 34°00′22″N, 36°12′31″E about 200 km east of Beirut.
At present, Baalbek serves as the primary center of the Shia population of the Bekaa Valley and one of the main training camps for the Hizbullah forces.

Heliopolis (there was another Heliopolis in Egypt) was made a colonia by the Roman Empire in 15 BC and a legion was stationed there. Work on the religious complex there lasted over a century and a half and was never completed. The dedication of the present temple ruins, the largest religious building in the entire Roman empire, dates from the reign of Septimus Severus, whose coins first show the two temples. The great courts of approach were not finished before the reigns of Caracalla and Philip. In commemoration, no doubt, of the dedication of the new sanctuaries, Severus conferred the rights of the jus italicum on the city. Today, only six Corinthian columns remain standing. Eight more were disassembled and shipped to Constantinople under Justinian's orders, for his basilica of Hagia Sophia.
The greatest of the three temples was sacred to Jupiter Baal, ("Heliopolitan Zeus"), identified here with the sun, with whom were associated a temple to Venus and a lesser temple in honor of Bacchus (though it was traditionally referred to by Neoclassical visitors as "Temple of the Sun"). Thus three Eastern deities were worshipped in Roman guise: thundering Jove, the god of storms, stood in for Baal-Hadad, Venus for 'Ashtart (known in English as Astarte) and Bacchus for Anatolian Dionysus.
Jupiter-Baal was represented locally (on coinage) as a beardless god in long scaly drapery, holding a whip in his right hand and thunderbolts and ears of wheat in his left. Two bulls supported him. In this guise he passed into European worship in the 3rd century and 4th century AD. The icon of Helipolitan Zeus (in A.B. Cook, Zeus, i:570-576) bore busts of the seven planetary powers on the front of the pillarlike term in which he was encased. A bronze statuette of this Heliopolitan Zeus was discovered at Tortosa, Spain; another was found at Byblos in Phoenicia. A comparable iconic image is the Lady of Ephesus (see illustration) (Robert Graves, The Greek Myths I.4).
The extreme licence of the Heliopolitan worship of Aphrodite was often commented upon by early Christian writers, and Constantine, making an effort to curb the Venus cult, built a basilica. Theodosius I erected another, with a western apse, occupying the main court of the Jupiter temple, as was Christian practice everywhere. The vast stone blocks of its walls were taken from the temple itself. Today nothing of the Theodosian basilica remains.
Other Emperors enriched the sanctuary of Heliopolitan Jupiter each in turn. Nero (54-68 BC) built the tower-altar opposite the Temple of Jupiter, Trajan added the forecourt to the Temple of Jupiter, with porticos of pink granite brought from Aswan in Egypt. Antoninus Pius built the Temple of Bacchus, the best preserved of the sanctuary's structures, for it was protected by the very rubble of the site's ruins. It is enriched with refined reliefs and sculpture. Septimus Severus added a pentagonal Temple of Venus, who as Aphrodite had enjoyed an early Syrian role with her consort Adonis ("Lord," the Aramaic translation of "Baal."). Christian writers competed with one another to execrate her worship. Eusebius of Caesarea, down the coast, averred that 'men and women vie with one another to honour their shameless goddess; husbands and fathers let their wives and daughters publicly prostitute themselves to please Astarte'. Emperor Philip the Arab (244-249) was the last to add a monument at Heliopolis— the hexagonal forecourt. When he was finished Heliopolis and Praeneste in Italy were the two largest sanctuaries in the Western world. (wikipedia)
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[goochnipple]

humans did not build this is was built by Nephilim a hybrid race from fallen angles and humans, these were the giants that roamed the earth before the flood and after

[iampeeay01]

so amazing... nice to know that the remains of these buildings was well taken care of. thanks for sharing this video.

[mariaten100]

In those days they had a lot of time on their hands, and communities worked more with each other. Still its a mystery how they moved those large stones.

The technology employed to build these structures was lost due to wars and the march of time.

[jonnylons]

@Jeremiah10 Easy. People don't remember their history and forget things like Latin. Why is it do impossible to believe that this was built by humans? Why believe, instead, that it was extra terrestrial? In fact, humans did build it but the truth of all of this is much more complicated than you all might think.

[SuperEarther]

@TheX4honda just what i thought friend. who ever buys that shit aint got a brain! But on a more serious note its an attempt by the elites and historians to feed us full of shit. Peace

[TheX4honda]

built by humans!... yeah right

[Thesortvokter]

Who erected the pre-roman foundations for this? Extra-terrestrials?

[TheTolaimangi]

@thetexanfan Me too!! and I agree 100% I cant be certain but Im guessing that the powers that be know alot more than they care to admit about such matters...the subdued and missinformed individual is much more compliant and less likely to revolt...

[Jerimiah10]

It makes me wonder, how do cities this great become riuns? You would think they would have been perpetualy owned and maintained.

[JonnyBoyNichols]

@thetexanfan Einstein was closest with unified field theory. He retracted his findings and falsely proclaimed his research was "incomplete." However many believe he only retracted it because he didn't believe man was ready for unified field theory, and often was horrified by the fact man may never be ready for it... for unified field theory could take us into place.