John the Baptist

As a cleansing rite, John baptised Jesus, an act inspiring some Christians as follows:

• In his First Corinthian Epistle, Paul compared it with the Exodus: Mozes & his people crossing יַם-סוּף meant purification
• According to apostle Simon, it's similar to the Deluge: Noah & his family were purified after floating on the water

Like many other Jewish celebrities, his mother gave birth on a rather high age, after being infertile for a while: A sign for an important life protected by the Holy Spirit. As the character of Jesus might be a mixture of Andrey Bogolyubsky & Andronikos Komnenos, the New Chronology suggests John's might be one of those of:

• Saint Leontius & Saint Theodore from the Golden Ring
• Alexios Branas & John Komnenos from the Golden Horn

The baptist worked near Αἰνών in בֵּית עַנְיָה. Before becoming emperor, Andronikos Komnenos lived on his ancestral estates in Οἰνόη: Is the same town mentioned? Paintings suggest a fertile working habitat, not a desert: Should we rather understand the deserted countryside?

Lazarus originated from Bethany & moved to Kition: According to the New Chronology, Jesus installed him as a bishop in the 中國城市 before going to Царьград, where he cleansed the Temple. The priests plotted against him, making him flee from Jerusalem to Bethany, where he got baptised in Aenon: Are we talking about Oinaion in Bithynia?

Criticizing the unlawful marriage of Herodes Antipas got the baptist imprisoned: His influence on the people was feared. Inspired by her mother, Salome requested the head of the baptist, but according to Flavius Josephus he just might have been executed. According to Muslims, his skull is kept in the الْجَامِع الْأُمَوِي, but other sanctuaries also claim to keep his relics ...

Trojan Horse

When Paris abducted Helen, it started the Trojan War, which ended by the trick with the Trojan Horse, whereafter Aeneas managed to escape the burning city. The trick with the hollow horse is a bit odd; the following questions pop up in my mind:

• Nobody noticed a possible entrance to the belly of the horse?
• None of the hidden soldiers sneezed or coughed the whole time?
• They could remain noiseless when the horse suddenly started to move?
• ...

The Aeneid covers the story of the hollow horse: In Latin, 'horse' translates as 'equus', while 'water' translates as 'aqua'. Before the invention of printing press, a mistake in copying happened easily: Could 'equus' have replaced 'aqua', in connection with the verb 'ducere', which translates as 'to lead'?

This question is brought forward by the New Chronology: Did the seizure of Troy happen as in early medieval Naples?

According to them, the ruïns of Hisarlik are too small for being the remnants of that once so mighty city. They suggest it should be Tsargrad & they could be right: When the Greeks recaptured late medieval Constantinople, being lost to the Latins since the Fourth Crusade, they used a secret passage near the Gate of the Spring ...

"Νεά Πολις" & "Nova Roma" nearly mean the same, as does "𐤒𐤓𐤕 𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕". The Aeneid covers the love story of Dido & Aeneas too: Though they've been born centuries apart, in the story they met, proving ancient Virgil indeed wrote propaganda. How about late medieval Virgil?

I mentioned the importance of national propaganda already in a former post: Authors Robert Grishin & Vladimir Melamed suggest in chapter fourteen of their book the mentioned namesakes are doubles. That's right, even Shakespeare might not have been who we think he was, also according to Petter Amundsen ...