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Weather By The Moon
into 12 periods, and further divided these periods into 30
parts, (4 minute increments).
As early as 3500 B.C. they constructed four-sided
monuments called Obelisks which acted like a sun-dial. By
watching the moving shadows, they were able to mark off
high noon as well as the solstices and equinoxes. They also
erected large observatories or watch towers in the temple
complexes of the great cities to study celestial phenomena.
The biblical Tower of Babel was said to be such a monument.
Ur has been called Abraham’s city. According to the
Scriptures, Abraham faced serious problems. The Moon
worship in the city was considered an abomination to God
in some quarters, and, with his father Terah, Abraham left
Ur to go to another center of Moon worship at Haran. After
Terah died, Abraham accepted the challenge to go on to the
Promised Land of Canaan.. Joshua Chapter 24 makes it clear
that Terah worshipped false gods. In the pre-Christian era,
Moon observance and measurement for weather and harvest
prediction generally became systematized as Moon
worship.
The fundamental debate between those who believed
that the Moon exerted terrestrial influences and those who
believed that only a non-celestial God controlled life on
earth, still persists to this day.
The Sumerians worshipped the Moon god Sin, which
not surprisingly, today, is the word that has come to mean
the very transgression of moral law. The Latin word sinister
meant ‘left’ and was long associated with evil. It was an
insult to extend the left hand for a handshake. The older
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