Mystery in Prague: the Goylem and the Cemetery
04.10.2016
In this Old New Synagogue in Prague's Josefstadt ...
... lies the Golem, in Yiddish: Goylem, which is an artificially created dumb servant, a "goy made of lehm (mud)", originally "brought to life" by Rabbi Yehuda Löw in the 16th century.
The Golem is supposed to be buried and hidden up to today behind this attic door ...
... marked with a hexagram ... which later became the sign of the Zionist movement.
This is what a Golem is made for ...
... as seen by the rolling advertisement of the King Solomon Restaurant Prague. Spot the writing on the Golem's forehead: emeth = truth, meth = death. Signs used by Rabbi Löw to give and take the Golem's life. There is a similar story from Adam Weishaupt's Illuminati hometown Ingolstadt: the creation of "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley.
Lots of tourist tinnef around.
This is a monumet to Rabbi Yehuda Löw ...
... an ancestor of the Prague Oppenheimers, and the "creator" of the Golem who is celebrated - by some - for his strange story.
There is a Darth Vader inspiration nearby.
And other strange creatures.
The clocks go differently ...
... in symbol-riddled Prague (here a Jew Hat inside a hexagram).
The Jewish Cemetery in Prague's Judenstadt, later called Josefstadt after Emperor Josef, ...
... with the Cohen's greeting (well known from Captain Spock) ...
... a spooky place ...
... that gave rise to myths ...
... and fictional and factional books ...
... in particular about Rabbi Löw ...
... whose grave - with the lion sign - can be seen here ...
... but also to other stories like the "secret meeting" of the Elders of Zion ...
... described in the famous book by Umberto Eco.
GOLEM: the goy (cattle) is made of lehm (mud), a useful idiot like the general masses (theodisk, tysk, tedesco, teuto, teuton, tuatha, (i)diot, douch, deutsch), dumb and numb (nemec, niemcy, arab: ajan) like the Germans (germs) or general public (all men = Alman, Alemannen).
Other interesting historic sites abound in Prague, like the Hotel Jalta ...
... which housed an important bunker and Soviet secret service headquarter after World War II.
Plus ca change, plus ca reste le meme.
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