Eighth Day Fantasy in Octagonal Form Structure
20260109
Beneath a Church in Armenia
Archaeologists Found No Vault Nor a Forgotten Gospel
20260109
Beneath a Church in Armenia
Archaeologists Found No Vault Nor a Forgotten Gospel
The ground stayed silent beneath the foundation and floor level of a destroyed octagonal shaped church structure of centuries ago which archaeologists have uncovered in Armenia’s capital city. (0:14)
Neither the ground, nor the structure, nor the archaeologists, but religious apologists —at The Explorer—, found that <the shape is wrong>, <the timing is unsettling,0:25 and strange empty spaces lie beneath the floor>. Mark well, these YouTube videos’, religious apologists allege, Some –they don’t say who are the ‘some’– believe it –the destroyed octagonal shaped church structure– was meant to seal something away,0:32 not just honor a new religion.
ALL THIS IS PURE CONJECTURE!
How is anyone able to say something was meant to be sealed away underground beneath the floor that remained? The Explorer fantasizes! But the fantasy is nothing (naturally). The assertion the structure was meant to honor a new religion is audaciously far-fetched. Just the opposite can logically and historically legitimately be assumed. The structure was destroyed exactly because it meant the religion was new! Because the structure (church) was of strange, unsettling, shape. What if early fourth century Christians hid not, but discovered a secret church, a massive structure no one expected to find with a shape that immediately raised eyebrows, and burned it down the exact moment it was built, to a place where ruins now blend into farmland and history feels finished long ago, having left the place just a dot on a historical map? (0:49)
That <that changed the moment (0:19) a king converted and a nation changed faith>, is told the listener in The Explorer video. Archaeological historical fact is Artashat, a former capital that rose and fell like countless others, is just a dot on a historical map now, sitting quietly (0:54) in modern Armenia not far from Mount Ararat.
It is The Explorer video which tells you –listener– history (1:04) changed the moment modern researchers began surveying the ground not with shovels but with instruments designed to read what the soil remembers, and beneath the surface (1:13) revealed a structure with a (1:18) shape, an octagon, that immediately raised eyebrows. Yes, because the octagon was large, was obviously planned carefully and deliberately, and was constructed into the shape of a cross. Because in late antiquity (1:33) shape was never accidental, and an octagon was not something you built unless you were making a statement. This structure, measured roughly a hundred feet across, (1:41), which already puts it far beyond the scale of an ordinary community church, especially in the early fourth century when Christianity was still organizing itself as a public institution.
That is told by The Explorer, to you, the listener / reader. Who is the third party in this trilateral discussion not identified but presumed? That’s the key question. So, Who did not build unless with building he / it made statement clear and unmistakable far beyond the scale or deliberation or scope or planning or ability or fantasy of the ordinary community church in the early fourth century when Christianity was still organizing itself as a public institution, other than the Byzantium Roman Catholic Church
