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Firmament
Also called: Raqiya · Dome Cosmology
The solid covering that divides heaven from earth in Genesis.In this narrative, it is a glass dome wrapped around the Earth, a symbol stamped into buildings of power.
Established facts
"Firmament" is the word used in Genesis 1:6-8.The original Hebrew is "raqiya." Its root, "raqa," means to hammer something flat.Ancient Near Eastern texts drew the sky as a solid covering.They believed water sat above that covering.The King James Bible rendered this word with the English "firmament," meaning "a solid thing." Modern biblical scholarship reads the firmament not as a physical dome but as the ancient world's cosmological model.Dome roofs have been a common architectural form for churches and government buildings since the Roman Pantheon.
A dome covers a disc; the sun and moon circle inside it. The edge is an ice wall.
In this narrativeA hammered sheet of metal
The firmament is a great dome God made on the second day of creation1.The Hebrew "raqa" means to hammer something flat1.So the firmament is a solid metal sheet, beaten flat1.In Genesis, this dome divides the primordial waters above from below1.In this narrative the firmament is not a metaphor but an actual ceiling.Earth is a room set beneath that ceiling.
In this narrativeThe same lid, drawn by more than one scripture
The Quran, too, draws the sky as a solid structure with no seam1.The Quran divides the sky into seven layers1.There is even a verse where meteors chase off devils who approach these layers1.In this narrative, the Bible and the Quran testify to the same sky model.Two different scriptures drawing the same dome is no coincidence.This Wikipedia entry itself is not a believer's text but a summary of scholarly research1.
In this narrativeA dome stamped on government buildings
A dome also appears in Freemasonry's "Royal Arch" engraving1.The Washington Monument stands within a domed niche1.The ceiling of a British criminal courtroom is also an arched wooden dome1.Old cathedral ceiling mosaics and the Walt Disney logo share the same dome shape1.Even Renaissance religious paintings of the Last Judgment are set against a semicircular dome1.In this narrative, that repetition is read as evidence that government, the judiciary, religion, and entertainment all share this knowledge of the firmament1.
In this narrativeThe edge of the dome
If the firmament is a real ceiling, Earth should also have an edge wall.That wall is Antarctica's ice wall.Some claim the Antarctic Treaty exists to keep people from going beyond the ice wall1.Only the sun and moon revolve inside the firmament.NASA's space photos, the argument continues, are forgeries meant to hide what lies beyond this dome.
Connected concepts
- Flat Earth →If the firmament is a covering, the land beneath it must be flat.The next step in the dome story is a flat Earth.
- Antarctic Ice Wall →The wall that blocks the dome's edge is Antarctica's ice wall.The firmament story crosses over into a geography story here.
- North Pole →The dome's central axis is the North Pole.Follow the firmament's apex and it lands at the North Pole.
- Freemasonry →The very name of the Royal Arch degree is a dome.One architectural motif meets the secret society's story.
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