![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Just finished watching an enjoyable, smoothly made, plausibly argued, and (IMNSHO) gently lunatic documentary purporting to prove that the Ark of the Covenant was smuggled out of Jerusalem ahead of the Babylonians, kept in Yemen for several centuries, and finally ended up in the hands of the African tribe known as the Lemba. The Lemba have strong genetic ties to the Jews and may be descended from Yemeni Jewish tribes, and the film argued that the Lemba war drum and sacred object, the Ngoma Lungundu, was a dim memory of the Ark at several removes.
Very interesting, and an entertaining way to spend a couple of hours. True? Almost certainly not. But it's certainly better than ancient astronauts, Jesus as the founder of the Merovingians, and Leonardo Da Vinci building flying machines in the service of the Priory of Sion....
Very interesting, and an entertaining way to spend a couple of hours. True? Almost certainly not. But it's certainly better than ancient astronauts, Jesus as the founder of the Merovingians, and Leonardo Da Vinci building flying machines in the service of the Priory of Sion....
