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Baz posted an update 8 years, 4 months ago
As a very famous Australian used to say; “Do yourselves a favour”
ZWV 61 Il Serpente di bronzo, Oratorio
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Baz posted an update 8 years, 4 months ago
As a very famous Australian used to say; “Do yourselves a favour”
ZWV 61 Il Serpente di bronzo, Oratorio
Was the “bronze serpent” perhaps the memory of an ancient machine?
In the biblical Books of Kings (2 Kings 18:4), the Nehushtan (or Nohestan) (Hebrew: נחושתן or נחש הנחושת) is the derogatory name given to the bronze serpent on a pole first described in the Book of Numbers, which God told Moses to erect to so that the Israelites who saw it would be protected from dying from the bites of the “fiery serpents” which God had sent to punish them for speaking against God and Moses Numbers 21:4-9. In Kings, King Hezekiah makes an iconoclastic reform that requires the destruction of “the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan”. The term means “a brazen thing, a mere piece of brass”.
A missile deflector device? Later incense offerings recall a Foundation-like scenario of ancient science declining into devotional practice.
how about something that deflected mini-drone attacks ?
Then we could all do with a “bronze serpent” with or without the incense!
” famous Australian” … Crocodile Dundee?
more famous, and of a musical bent…