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JEBUSITE SUN-TEMPLE AT JERUSALEM 275
remembered, called himself ‘‘ Son of the Sun,” as “ My Sun, the great Bil Fire-Torch.”"*
The Israelitic occupation of the Sun-temple and its court on Mt. Moriah, from about 1012 B.c. onwards, was evidently only a joint one, shared with the Jebusites, Hittites and Amorites of Palestine and their descendants. Shortly before his death about ro15 B.c., King David, we are told, purchased from the Jebusite king of Jerusalem, Araunah (whose name is in series with that of Urukhi and “Uriah the Hittite”), a site on ‘‘ the threshing place’ of that king, “ where the angel of the Lord was,’ in order to build there an altar.* That spot was thus outside the Jebusite temple itself, as sacrificial altars were in the open air. It is noteworthy that “the angel of the Lord” was already there before David obtained a part of the site; for it is significant that the “ Sun-god’’ Nin-ib is otherwise styled ‘‘ Tas,” i.e., the HittoSumerian Archangel of God and the “‘ Tascia”’ of the Briton coins and monuments, as we have seen. We thus have confirmation through the Old Testament tradition of the existence of this pre-Israelitic temple of the Aryan Archangel of God on Mt. Moriah, as recorded in the original contemporary letters of its pre-Israelitic king. And David’s great fear of that angel* is explained by the latter being the Hittite tutelary of Jerusalem and Palestine which David had invaded.
The temple which Solomon began to build on Mt. Moriah about ror2 B.c., and which was built mainly through the agency of Phoenicians from Tyre, was presumably merely the rebuilding of the old Hittite Bil or Bel shrine, and continued to be shared by the Jebusites, of whom we are informed that “the children of Judah could not drive them out, but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day ’’*—.c., until the date of compiling the Old Testament, about the 6th century B.c.
1 AL (W) 181, (184, etc.). Berlin text, 1. i, reads Zal-ia gi-Bil ma wherein Zal—Sol or Sun, and ma—Sumerian source of English “ my.”
*2 Sam. xxiv, 19-24. The Revised Version translates the text literally as“ all this did Araunah the king give unto the king.”
* 7 Chron. xx, 15-30.
‘ Joshua xv, 63; Judgesi, 21.