The Sacred Way connecting the city of Miletos to the sanctuary of Didyma marks the ‘High Way’ of the ancient world that connects the port city of Salamos where the temple of Didyma then existed with City of the Sun at Canaan also called Shechem. Its historical identity is preserved not only biblical narratives but also with Alexander’s India invasion accounts. The procession which scholars want to know is otherwise known as Image Procession.
Nature of procession should be defined along with the seat of worship of the deity; the procession marks the involvement of whole of the ‘inhabited world’; it was neither Greek nor Roman procession as some scholars though it to be.
There was nothing like ‘an orthodox reconstruction of the route’, which previously was identified with Tiger’s Path or Vyaghra-patha’. During the time of Exodus, Moses followed this route along with his Israelite followers.
Epigraphic and archaeological evidences will never help to know this route; this road identifies the ancient world itself. This road linked all the seats of ancient dynasties with each other and also with all the places of hermitages.
It is totally wrong to devise any computational modelling of the topography of alternative routes today. The Sacred Way from Miletos to Didyma passes through Hittite kingdom itself that covers House of Cadmus on the way. It identifies part of the Kadesh, and the river basin of the Styx. How can the scholars working on this sacred route be blind enough to bypass so many things in their narratives. Alexander visited Miletos which was a part of Phrygia region; and Temple of Didyma itself identifies this region of Phrygia same as Baghia. Didyma is still worshipped in that region of its original seat of worship and classical scholars are not aware of it.
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