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Rameumpton An Asherah Symbol?

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Interesting conjecture, but the high places (elevated areas overlooking a town) were areas of worship which included the seat of the deity and an asherah pole. The description of the Rameumptom, while a high place (tower) is not described as having the same items. They were under condemnation under Josiah ostensibly because they competed against the temple in Jerusalem.

From the Old Testament and from existing remains a good idea may be formed of the appearance of such a place of worship. It was often on the hill above the town, as at Ramah (I Samuel 9:12-14); there was a stele (matzevah), the seat of the deity, and a wooden post or pole (asherah, named after the goddess Asherah), which marked the place as sacred and was itself an object of worship; there was a stone altar, often of considerable size and hewn out of the solid rock' or built of unhewn stones (Exodus 20:25; see altar), on which offerings were burnt (mizbeh, lit. "slaughter place"); a cistern for water, and perhaps low stone tables for dressing the victims; sometimes also a hall (lishkah) for the sacrificial feasts. Wiki
Zakuska Grand Master

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Interesting conjecture, but the high places (elevated areas overlooking a town) were areas of worship which included the seat of the deity and an asherah pole. The description of the Rameumptom, while a high place (tower) is not described as having the same items. They were under condemnation under Josiah ostensibly because they competed against the temple in Jerusalem.

From the Old Testament and from existing remains a good idea may be formed of the appearance of such a place of worship. It was often on the hill above the town, as at Ramah (I Samuel 9:12-14); there was a stele (matzevah), the seat of the deity, and a wooden post or pole (asherah, named after the goddess Asherah), which marked the place as sacred and was itself an object of worship; there was a stone altar, often of considerable size and hewn out of the solid rock' or built of unhewn stones (Exodus 20:25; see altar), on which offerings were burnt (mizbeh, lit. "slaughter place"); a cistern for water, and perhaps low stone tables for dressing the victims; sometimes also a hall (lishkah) for the sacrificial feasts. Wiki

Modern day Asherah.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Stripperpole.jpg

Hamilton Porter Mentor

Hamilton Porter

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You are about to get banned. 3...2...1

Interesting conjecture, but the high places (elevated areas overlooking a town) were areas of worship which included the seat of the deity and an asherah pole. The description of the Rameumptom, while a high place (tower) is not described as having the same items. They were under condemnation under Josiah ostensibly because they competed against the temple in Jerusalem.

Thanks for the clarification.

Robert F. Smith Grand Master

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Ram = high ton = place

Rameumpton = High Place, Asherah cult object?

Your spelling of the word RAMEUMPTOM is close, but one letter off.

The correct etymology is given at Alma 31:13,21,23, "Holy-Stand; a place of standing which was high above the head," inside the Zoramite synagogues -- where one person at a time would stand and deliver a prayer which has the content of ha-Tefilla, the ancient Jewish prayer par excellence, otherwise known as the 'Amida "Standing-prayer" = Shemone-'esre the "Eighteen-benedictions" of modern rabbinic Judaism.

The Hebrew for this Zoramite bima must be ram- "high-place-of" (Isa 10:33 plural) + 'omdam "their-standing" (Neh 8:7). Cognate with Egyptian rm‘ "height, elevation, high place," with determinative glyph of someone in prayer, arms raised, as with the Zoramites, Alma 31:14, and with Jesus, Luke 24:50.

During the Muslim Hajj, the pilgrims likewise stand on the Plain of Arafat with arms raised praying for repentance (Arabic ʿumdan “standing”).[1]

[1] As noted by John Tvedtnes, “Vestiges.”

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volgadon Grand Master

volgadon

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What language are you using to get ram = high place?

I'm more interested in knowing how he got ton = place.

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