According to Unesco, this historic heritage site of Vezelay Church came into existence in 9th c A.D.; it was preached during this time that Abbey of Vezelay acquired the relics of St Mary Magdalene and since then it has been an important place of pilgrimage. St Beranrd preached the Second Crusade there in 1146 and Richard the Lion-Hearted and Philip II Augustus met there to leave for the Third Crusade in 1190. Vezelay thus remained a central figure in the European history of the Crusaders.
Academic scholarship misunderstood the ‘meaning’ of the Vezelay portals; Vezelay refers to the ‘Seat of Worship of Vajra’ means the ‘Seat of Wisdom’ and ‘Seat of Enlightenment’. It is Mt Zion of the Bible where all nations of the world should gather ‘for final judgment’. The lintel of the Vezelay portal never portrays ‘nonbelievers’ of the world and it never displays any humans as ‘ungodly’. The figures in the tympanum speak that God and Sermon of God are meant for all types of humans; to understand the ancient world is to understand the meaning of the ‘four quarters’ of the ‘inhabited world’. Baal deities were the pygmies, and biblical scholarship failed to understand them. One pygmy who has been depicted as mounting a horse with assistance of a ‘ladder’ in the portal speaks loudly the ‘meaning of the ‘ladder’. It helps to achieve the ‘Way’ to salvation. People who then left their homes, came to Jerusalem where they were seen mostly carrying this ladder. Israelites were a heterogeneous group of truth seekers living in Jerusalem area; people from all the ‘four quarters’ of the world came to Jerusalem because of its sacredness. It is wrong to conclude that the architects and the artists depicted the ‘unbelievers’ as physically grotesque; and if this forms the ‘base’ of Western perception of the ‘Moors’, then it is failure of academic scholarship to understand the meaning of the term ‘Moors’ which identifies the people of the Moeris island of Vergil. People with Elephant ears were the ancient Hasti means the Elephant-people living on te bank of th river Ganges(Gaga river) near Bethany.
Modern Crusaders were a part of the ‘ancient migrants’ and thus they are detached from the ‘mind’ of the land of their texts. Not a single line has been written anywhere in the Bible to ‘exterminate the vile race’; Muslims belongs to the holy land as same as the Christians and the ancient Persians and the ancient Indians. Flood and Volcano were not considered as enemies by the Crusaders of ancient times. Vezely lintel is not a political statement, and its meaning equally matches with other portals of churches around with similar designs.
The lower ‘four’ compartment depicts the people of the Underworld; it is unfortunate that Byzantine was not considered as a land in the Underworld. Seljuk refers to the ancient region around the river Sarju or Sajur Valley whose source was in the Manasseh; it was neighbourly to Jerusalem. Nagas or the Serpent clan people were royal people. Troy was a part of this region. Crusaders, as the meaning suggests, were termed as Missionary Soldiers to whom Greeks took as ‘Bolakara’; they were attached to the royal houses and the throne. The Upper Four compartments are represented by god’s actions and the region of ancient Rome falls in this group. The central portion of the Vezelay tympanum portraits the region of See or Cyr or Sri or Sse; it is ‘Heaven’ of the Bible and other ancient literature. Messages of the Apostles were sent forth to the ‘inhabited world’ from here only.
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