The Song of Songs divides biblical scholars to extract a meaning out of some of its lines when some others think of this Song as ancient pornography. Many have sung its praise. While second century C.E., Rabbi Akiva calls it the ‘holy of holies’, Saadia Gaon, a tenth century scholar says, ‘Song of Songs resembles a locked door to which the key is missing’.
Solomon was a ‘Sramana’, means a ‘Monk-King’, or a pious and holy Monk who on people’s choice became their king, and presided over the sanctuary at Coomari Island or the Island of Daughter’s Zion(Bhikshunis); his passionate love for ‘women’ to whom he calls ‘Daughters of Zion’ should be understood first when he names various places where these Holy Daughters live outside their homes. Solomon wants to go to Panchaia where hill of frankincense then existed. What for he needs these frankincense, myrrh, cinnamon and calamus? They are not the articles of love, but of worship of the God YAHWEH. Who is THIS GOD? Biblical scholars failed to connect Daughters of Zion and Yahweh through the Song of Songs. Solomon identifies them with different sanctuaries: it seems, a volcanic eruption during the time of Solomon killed some of the Daughters of Zion, and for this the King mourns for them.This also shows the destruction of the First Temple of Jerusalem by a volcanic eruption.
‘You are all beautiful, my love.
There is no spot in you.
Come with me from Lebanon, my bride(Island of Dido),
Look from the top of Amana,
from the top of Senir (Mt Sinai ) and Hermon(Mt Hor),
from the lions’ dens(Land of Lions),
from the mountains of the leopards’(Plain of Tigris).
Again he sings:
Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Temple of Juno.
Your head on you is like Carmel.
The hair of your head like purple(Tanais/Tyre).
The king is held captive in its tresses.
How beautiful and how pleasant you are,
love, for delights!
This, your stature, is like a palm tree(Jericho),
your breasts like its fruit’(Nibban or salvation).
I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree.
I will take hold of its fruit.”
Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
the smell of your breath like apples’.
Thus Solomon sings, but why? Is it a love-song, or a ‘prayer’?
The volcano which sits close to Israel now starts to flow with its lava. So the King prays to save the Daughters of Zion, remembering their love for the King, for the Temple where they serve. Sheol is as same as the Seat of Worship of Yama, the King of Death. So the ‘Prayer’ is for the King of Death that sees:
‘Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a very flame of Yahweh.
Many waters can’t quench it,
neither can floods drown it’.
In front of his eyes he sees ‘Death’ all around:
‘The Lord was as an enemy:
he hath swallowed up Israel,
he hath swallowed up all her palaces:
he hath destroyed his strong holds,
and hath increased in the daughter of Judah
mourning and lamentation’.
‘How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion
with a cloud in his anger,
and cast down from heaven unto the earth
the beauty of Israel,
and remembered not his footstool
in the day of his anger! ‘

‘The Lord hath swallowed up
all the habitations of Jacob,
and hath not pitied:
he hath thrown down in his wrath
the strong holds of the daughter of Judah;
he hath brought them down to the ground:
he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof’.

‘He hath cut off in his fierce anger
all the horn of Israel:
he hath drawn back his right hand
from before the enemy,
and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire,
which devoureth round about’.
‘He hath bent his bow like an enemy:
he stood with his right hand as an adversary,
and slew all that were pleasant to the eye
in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion:
he poured out his fury like fire’.
The best geographical explanation for the ancient Israel’s situation, and for the seat of this biblical volcano can be given through in these two lines of the Song of Songs, that sings:
‘Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite,
as at the dance of Mahanaim?’
Mahanama was the last king of Kapilavastu; and Kapilavastu was a part of Hittite region in the Negev. Mahanaim refers to the place where this last of the Sakyan kings was living in a secluded life near Manasarovara Lake.
The name Israel appears but once—in Song of Songs 3:7. No less a Bible scholar than James Kugel (and among others, Wilson-Wright) has translated the words, ‘mighty blaze’ (Hebrew shalhebetyah) as ‘flame of Yahweh’. This is the mistake. It identifies the ancient Volcano near Jerusalem, Seat of Worship of Yama, the God of Death.
Hebr shalhebetyah is same as shalhe-betyah or ‘Sulla-bati’, or the place where death penalties are awarded. Here Suli (Sans)means ‘forced death’, and it happened with a royal decree only.