Pompeii remained
undiscovered for 1,500 years after the tragic volcano eruption. The volcanic
eruption turned people into stone and ashes within seconds.
For centuries after the deadly eruption, Pompeii was buried
and forgotten by humankind, but the remains of the city were kept perfectly
preserved, and today they provide us many with fascinating facts about the
ancient civilization of Pompeii and the secrets of Mount Vesuvius.
It wasn’t until 1599 that Pompeii was accidentally
rediscovered by Italian architect Domenico Fontana while he was digging a water
tunnel. Even though the excavation of Pompeii started well over 3 centuries ago,
it still continues to this day.
The disaster that befell Sodom and Gomorrah
is very similar to the disaster that destroyed Pompeii.
The
Qur'an tells us in the following verse that there is no change in Allah's Law;
Al-Qur'an 35:42-43
Yes, no change will be found in Allah's way (rules).
Everybody, who stands against his laws and rebels against Him, is subject to
the same divine law. Pompeii, the symbol of the degeneration of the Roman
Empire was also involved in sexual perversity. Its end was similar to that of
the people of Lut.
On 23 August AD 79,
the people of Pompeii were celebrating the Festival of Vulcan, the God of Fire,
enjoying a glorious summers day unaware that for most of them it was to be
their last.
All
life in Pompeii was wiped out in just 15 MINUTES of the catastrophic volcano
eruption that suffocated thousands in the Roman city 2,000 years ago.
Pompeii was destroyed and completely buried
during the catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mt Vesuvius.
Pompeii was a town of
some 20,000 inhabitants situated on the shoreline of the Bay of Naples on the
fertile flat-lands at the foot of Mount Vesuvius. It was a bustling and
prosperous town in an area of Campania that was fast becoming the chosen
playground of the rich.
But the lava of
Vesuvias wiped the whole city off the map in a single moment. The most
interesting aspect of the event is that nobody escaped despite the terrible
violence of the eruption of Vesuvias. It is almost like they did not even
notice the catastrophe, as if they were charmed.
Moments later
Vesuvius exploded once again sending millions of tons of molten lava surging
towards the town at more than 100 kilometers an hour.
It would destroy
everything in its path. But its effects would descend upon many of those still
huddled in their homes long before the lava arrived.
The bottom of
Vesuvius now collapsed sending a black cloud of death across the Bay of Naples
choking to death many of those who had earlier fled into the countryside
believing they had escaped.
The removal of
Pompeii from the face of the earth by such a disaster was not purposeless. The
historical records show that the city of Pompeii was exactly a center of
debauchery and sexual pleasure of life.
The city was marked by a rise in prostitution to such an
extent that eventually the number of brothels was not known. Male organs in
their original sizes were hung on the doors of brothels. According to
tradition, rooted in Mithraic belief, sexual organs and sexual intercourse
should not be hidden but displayed openly.
(Archeologists first
excavated the city during Victorian times, shocked by the open sexual
perversity of the people, a secret museum was formed to house some of the
artifacts found.
These included many
falic symbols, images of homosexuality and even bestiality, to be viewed only
by a select ‘League of Gentlemen' who Victorian society deemed to be capable of
dealing with the images.)
A family eating their meal were petrified right at that
moment. Numerous petrified couples were found in the act of intercourse. The
most interesting thing is that there were couples of the same sex and couples
of young boys and young girls.
Here lies the most
incomprehensible aspect of the calamity. How did thousands of people wait to be
caught by death without seeing and hearing anything?
This aspect of the event shows that the disappearance of
Pompeii was similar to the destructive events mentioned in the Qur'an, because
the Qur'an particularly points to "sudden annihilation" while
relating these events.
For example, the
"inhabitants of the city" described in Surah Yasin died all at once
in a single moment. The situation is told as follows in the 29th verse of the
Surah:
"It was no more
then a single mighty blast, and behold! They were (like ashes) quenched and
silent. "In the 31st verse of Surah al-Qamar, again the "instantaneous
annihilation" is emphasized when the destruction of Thamud is recounted:
"For we sent
against them a single mighty blast, and they became like the dry stubble used
by one who pens cattle."
The death of the
people of Pompeii took place instantaneously, just as the events recounted in
the above verses.
Erotic, Lustfull, lewd life of Romans (Pompeii)
In the Classical
world sex was nothing more than a pleasurable experience and due to the Gods
they worshiped; In fact the Penis or Phallus was seen as a symbol of the
rejuvenate power and force of nature.
There was such a large amount of erotic
frescoes and artifacts that in 1599 when the digging of an underground tunnel,
diverting the river Sarno hit an ancient wall displaying an erotic scene, the
image was plastered over by Dominico Fontana
Pompeii was once full
of symbols of the Phallus and other erotic imagery as the people of Pompeii and
Herculaneum thrived off their sexual encounters.
The preserved art and
sculpture of Pompeii demonstrates the behaviors and experiences of the
civilians occupying Pompeii at the time of its destruction.
The Phallus is a symbol of the forces of nature and
fertility and because of its consistent appearance we are able to assume that
the people of Ancient Rome were familiar and comfortable with the male
genitals.
Penis was not a
pornographic image and that it was a symbol of luck and fertility. This allows
us to understand that Christianity developed the conservation's that censor
sexuality today.
During Excavations a
number of Brothels were discovered including Laupanare which consisted of 10
small rooms, erotic frescoes, sexual graffiti and brick base beds with stone
pillows.
A number of erotic
images were discovered on the walls however it is unclear whether each image
depicts the sexual act that is performed or if they are there as a form of
pornography to heighten pleasure.
The excavations of
Brothels reflect the ambivalent behaviors and attitudes toward the pleasure of
sex and indicate that prostitution was not only legal but the state could
possibly have owned the brothels themselves.
This means that with out the eruption we would be unaware
of how the Romans felt about sex and how they enjoyed the pleasure of sex to
such an extent that it was actually a business.
These brothels give
us a unique perspective of the daily activities of the Romans and also show us
that prostitution was a form of income for some woman.
Despite all these,
things have not changed much where Pompeii once stood. The districts of Naples
where debauchery prevails do not fall short of those licentious districts of
Pompeii. The island of Capri is a base where homosexuals and nudists rule.
The
island of Capri is represented as a "Homosexual Paradise" in tourist
commercials. Not only on the island if Capri and in Italy, but in nearly all
the world, a similar moral degeneration is at work and people insist on not
learning form the awful experience of past peoples.
The End
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