Ummm, wink, wink--nudge, nudge?  I'm linguistically unconvinced.

Altho' "Baal" «ב-ע-ל» (B-ʕ-L) ^[#] is a conventional translation of the name of a Phoenician deity (esp. in Tyre), that's arguably glorified from its more mundane meanings "lord",  "master",  "owner",  "creditor",  and even "husband".

English "obelisk" arrived ultimately from Greek "obeliskos": A diminutive of "obelos", the latter meaning a "pointed pillar".

There seems to be no match when working back in Biblical Hebrew ^[*] from the meaning claimed by Burns.  E.g., «י-ח-ם» (Y-Ch-M) means not only "to be hot",  but also "to conceive",  and to perform the required generative act.  But I haven't yet found an entry for the anatomical noun.

And the expected Semitic prefix «ל» (L), which signifies possession, as in the Latin genitive case (and reportedly the Greek dative case), thus expecting the construction "L'Baal", but it's conspicuously absent.

I suppose I should defer judgment until I can access the docuмent cited.  So thanks to ‘cassini’ for the exact citation.  Should I expect to find the cited docuмent at my local metropolitan library?  Docuмents physically printed on paper,in a bricks-&-mortar library": How quaint!

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Note *: Gen.30:41 & 31:10, as the written record of Hebrew had survived to the time of the scholar Gesenius (fl. 1810--1842).  Which left roughly 14 centuries for important writings in & about Hebrew to have disappeared since St. Jerome had access to the docuмents that he used for writing the Biblia Vulgata.

Note #: The symbol ‘ʕ’ is from linguistics, and herein indicates the guttural consonant ‘ain’,  which is harsher (or stronger) than the mere glottal stop that can be heard in Cockney English.  It's been compared to the sound produced by a victim being strangled, and can be audibly unpleasant to native speakers of English when they're confronted with the sounds of native Arabic.

Uh, huh.  And you, ‘Incredulous’,  you're far from being a newbie here, having leveraged an excess of postings (4641 as of July 16) into CathInfo's exalted rank "hero member".

No, there's no "reading enjoyment" at all.

You still can't seem to resist hijacking a topic that's plenty interesting on its own merits.  Your 1 Reply #25 (July 15, 2019, 22:32:24) consumed 1/2 the space on its page, but it's easy to verify that in all that space, you completely failed to mention the topic-Subject word "obelisk".

So yet another of your hijackings indulged in reader-hostile habits that readers of CathInfo are accustomed to seeing from you, notably obnoxiously oversized text, which doesn't make your posting any more true nor trustworthy.

Hey  How's 'bout you, ‘Incredulous’, find those old CathInfo postings that attack the reputation of Michael Hoffman, whether fairly or unfairly, then create an original posting that contains links to the most credible of the attacks, and petition ‘Matthew’ to ‘pin’ your new topic to 1 of his subforums?  So instead of arrogantly hijacking interesting topics, you could humbly submit a brief posting that mostly simply links to your (potentially) pinned topic?

Then if you have nothing (more) to offer CathInfo readers about "obelisks", then just go away.

Only the ones designed as a phallus.  Same goes for the pen.  

Why is the Washington monument a giant phallus?
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Morris Kamelgarn, lives in Washington, DC (1985-present)
Answered Sep 25, 2017 · Author has 461 answers and 81k answer views


The Washington Monument is technically called an obelisk, and there may be a reason it looks the way it does. George Washington and many of the other founding fathers were Freemasons, a religion that goes back to ancient Egypt. The Egyptians had many gods, and one of them was Osirus who had a wife named Isis. The ancient Egyptians worshipped Isis because she had restored Osirus to life by putting him back together after he had been dismembered by his brother, Seth. The way they worshipped her was by building a pillar, or obelisk, which was meant to represent Osirus' penis, because that was the only part of Osirus that Isis had been unable to find. The shape of the Washington Monument might be a way to pay homage to this story. There are many other examples of the influence of Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ on our nation, such as the way the city of Washington is laid out, and the presence of Masonic symbols on our money, such as the eye above the pyramid on the back of the dollar bill, so this isn't as far out as it sounds.

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We get the point, but try to be less crude, remember that woman and children read this site too.

Just to make a point here Alligator, but sometimes with me when you post normal writing it turns out HUGE and oversized. I suspect this is what happened when incredulous posted. Often wondered is it my computer or CIF website mechanisms.

Church steeples and bell towers are also "phallic" . Should they be demolished?

I thought this thread was about ancient Egyptian Obelisks?