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Traces of Hadrian in Porphyry a fictive purple man from Tyre

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  by Damien F. Mackey     Well, I saw the thing comin' out of the sky It had a-one long horn and one big eye (Ooh!) I commenced to shakin' and I said, "Ooh-eee! It looks like a purple people eater to me!"   It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater (One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater) A one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater Sure looks strange to me (One eye?)   Well, he came down to Earth and he laid in a tree I said, "Mr. Purple People Eater, don't eat me!" I heard him say in a voice so gruff: "I wouldn't eat you 'cause you're so tough"   It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater …. I said, "Mr. Purple People Eater, what's your line?" He said, "It's eatin' purple people and it sure is fine But that's not the reason that I came to land I wa...

Sixty-two years of Darius, who was Cyrus ‘the Great’

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  by Damien F. Mackey     “ That very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians, was slain,  and Darius the Mede took over the kingdom, at the age of sixty-two”.   Daniel 5:30-31     Wonderful parallels this revision now offers   With AmÄ“l-Marduk (Evil-Merodach) identified as Belshazzar – and the father, Nebuchednezzar, as Nabonidus – then we find (to be explained further below):   AmÄ“l-Marduk governing Babylon while his father is (away and) incapacitated , and, likewise, Belshazzar, governing Babylon while his father is (away and) incapacitated .   And with AmÄ“l-Marduk/Belshazzar further identified with Shamash-shum-ukin, a supposed brother of Ashurbanipal (my Nebuchednezzar/Nabonidus), but actually his son, then the apparent incarceration of the troublesome AmÄ“l-Marduk by his father, Nebuchednezzar, accords well with the incarceration of the son, Nabu-shum-ukin (= Shamash-shum-...