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Also the symbol of the rosette of six petals was found engraved on the stones of the oldest synagogues in Israel and Masada, the fortified city that was destroyed by the Roman army in the war against the Jews between 66 and 70 DC while destroyed and looted the Temple of Jerusalem.
Finally, we know that during Biblical Archaeology investigations in Israel, the symbol was found in excavations of the ruins of a synagogue in Magdala, a biblical place near Lake Tiberias, which was the native village of Mary Magdalena, where he is currently an important and modern pilgrimage center is built to the Holy Land.
Between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries in Trujillo settlers there were three communities: Christians, Jews and Moors. Grandparents and parents of Francisco Pizarro lived among these communities, first under Arab domination and after the reconquest, under Christian rule. During the Arab rule, there were Christian converts and Jews. After the reconquest, he was Arab and Jewish converts to Christianity.
Converts retained their beliefs and who were returned to their original religions. The most steadfast in their religious convictions and the Jews were persecuted. The converts were called "Marranos" by Christians who regarded them as false believers, as Christians who concealed their Jewish identity to gain access to important positions or avoid confiscation of their property.
Indeed, some conversos returned to Judaism, but most would rather take an ambiguous life, full of secrets. They preferred life, renouncing and abjuring Levi, but always had the opportunity to return to their faith. Grandparents and parents of Francisco Pizarro lived in this full of ambiguities and hypocrisies world until in 1478 established the Inquisition in Spain was when religious persecution radicalized. Francisco Pizarro was born that same year.
In 1492 Spain’s Catholic monarchs passed a law, the Edict of Expulsion of the Jews, which forced Spanish Jews either to become Catholic or go into exile. The people who left Spain were called Sephardic Jews, from the Hebrew word Sepharad, meaning a place from which people are exiled.
Exiled Jews kept their house keys as a reminder of their lost homeland, and the diaspora spread from the Ottoman Empire to the New World.
Five hundred years later, Spain is considering a law which will grant Spanish citizenship to the descendants of those exiled. Sephardic Jews from all over the world could get double nationality, with all the associated benefits of having an EU passport.
Sephardic Jew Alejandra Abulafia said: “For me a Spanish passport represents the return to our lost homeland. It’s a key. I don’t think Sephardic people from all over the world will return to Spain. They will just apply for citizenship and then stay where they are. Most of them have no interest in moving to Spain. They kept the key as a nostalgic symbol. Now, they want to recover the door of their ancestors’ home, and Spain is that door.”
The new law has already been approved by Spain’s Council of Ministers and is expected to enter force early in 2015. It is estimated that between 90,000 and 500,000 Jews could apply for Spanish citizenship over the next five years, costing Spain around 30 million euros.
a reply to: paraphi
A simple six-petal flower design was on a box of bones that was apparently Francisco Pizarro, the Conquistador from Catholic Spain. The flower design is similar what anyone would doodle during a boring meeting at work.
originally posted by: Boomy327
Very true the symbol is called "the seed of
Life" by new agers. It's a basic of "sacred geometry". This symbol pops up everywhere.
a reply to: paraphi
originally posted by: Eunuchorn
People seem to take such great pride in trying to debunk things. Can't you just accept something as an interesting possibility? Does it really affect your grip on reality so much to think the history books could be wrong? Accidentally or deliberately doesn't matter.
originally posted by: Eunuchorn
People seem to take such great pride in trying to debunk things. Can't you just accept something as an interesting possibility? Does it really affect your grip on reality so much to think the history books could be wrong? Accidentally or deliberately doesn't matter.
originally posted by: infolurker
originally posted by: Eunuchorn
People seem to take such great pride in trying to debunk things. Can't you just accept something as an interesting possibility? Does it really affect your grip on reality so much to think the history books could be wrong? Accidentally or deliberately doesn't matter.
Ok,
Look at the title: "Conquered by Jews"
Now if someone is trying to possibly question a link that either a person or order has some Jewish connection based on a symbol is one thing but the "Conquered by Jews" reflects an agenda or bias immediately which will get a negative response.
: possibly but not certainly
Now, let me dedicate a few lines to the “Orden de Santiago” (Order of Santago), really interesting. The order was founded to protect and help the pilgrims who came to Jerusalem. Its members were called Knights
originally posted by: OpenMindedRealist
a reply to: Trueman
I'll let someone else rail you on the fact that the symbols are both very generic and entirely dissimilar.
Spain wasn’t the first or only nation in Medieval Europe to expel its Jewish population. (It also wasn’t yet the unified nation known as Spain for all of the time this episode covers, but we’re sticking with Spain for simplicity.) However, in the typical U.S. history classroom, this expulsion is greatly overshadowed by another event that happened in the same year – Christopher Columbus’ first voyage.
Other Spanish Jews (estimates range between 50,000 and 70,000)[citation needed] chose to avoid expulsion by conversion to Christianity.
originally posted by: Trueman
Do you have better credentials than Dr. Ludeña and his team, in order to doubt what they said?
I provided a great amount of links and references. I know it's hard to face it.
oth Arab and Jewish presence during the Colony, had no legal basis. Simply, it was banned because to come to the Spanish America was required certificate of "purity of blood", ie show that was "old Christian" (descended from Christian at least four generations). Being "new Christian" or convert could cause complications for the Indians of the New World were in the process of evangelization and people with Arab or Jewish ancestry could harm the pure message of Christianity. However, many people with recent ancestors of Judaism or Islam were leaked to the New World concealing his true identity with altered documents, risking the Inquisition could discover.
For example, the Arabs assume a Spanish name and the fact that their physical appearance made them go through Southern Spain (Andalusia) favored their stay in Peru. Most of those who came to Peru in the sixteenth century were artisans or Moorish Moors (Spanish baptized Muslim) who performed work that did not compete economically with which they made the Spanish conquerors. Regarding the contributions of these artisans, it is clear the influence of Moorish (Hispano-Arabic art brought from the Peninsula) in Lima's architecture: the use of gratings, tiles, gardens, fountains and balconies drawer, for example .
In addition, a large contingent of blackberries or Moorish women entered the dynamics of slavery; were the "white slaves". Many were released after becoming concubines or wives before the Spaniards. These women were daughters of those who were taken as war booty by the Catholic Kings in Granada or enslaved prisoners during the wars of Charles V in the Eastern Mediterranean. They had considerable influence on the Lima culture: the mantle of stuffy and preparing sweets.
Finally, characters of Arab origin who achieved important positions, hiding his true identity for this were: Emir Cigala who, under the identity of Gregorio Zapata, became captain and carved a fortune in Potosi; Cristobal de Burgos, ruler of Lima and rich encomendero; Francisco Talavera, also Lima councilor and friend of Francisco Pizarro; Lorenzo Farfán of the Goths, first mayor of San Miguel de Piura; and Nicolas de Ribera el Viejo, first mayor of Lima. Refer historian Juan José Vega dying Diego de Almagro (who had been accused of moro on more than one occasion) Hernando Pizarro, his choke, ordered the body to strip to see if had been circumcised. Although the brand was not found, the rumors that her mother had been Moorish were persistent.
The newly converted to Christianity Jews were suspected of being "Judaizing" ie to keep practicing, hidden or private way, the old Jewish customs; also feared that can leak Hebrew speech. Therefore, the Inquisition was alert for the presence of any "Judaizing". A very famous case for the Lima Inquisition was the "great complicity" or "big complicity" that committed the most important Viceroyalty Portuguese traders. Accused of "Judaize" the Portuguese they were imprisoned between 1635 and 1639. The statements of the accused brought before the court to known merchant Manuel Bautista Perez and his brother, Sebastian Duarte. The auto de fe, one of the most apotheosis, was held on January 23, 1639 and he penitenció 80 Portuguese supposedly "Judaizing". Not all defendants were sentenced to death but Perez Duarte ended his days at the stake. The Holy Office seized assets of the accused, ensuring their finances, avoiding skills for Hispanic entrepreneurs. This inquisitorial process crypto Portuguese courts impacted Mexico and Cartagena de Indias, because in those cities Similar action was taken.