Ancient Jewish Relic - What Was It's Original Intent?
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The Ark of the Covenant is no longer on Earth it reside safely somewhere in our solar system. The Ark of the Covenant is really about the Covenant between humans and Creation to develop vessels that carry the seed of life into the Universe.
The Ark is the embodiment of the female that man must chase around regardless of where she goes to try and get pregnant.
The Ark is the embodiment of the female that man must chase around regardless of where she goes to try and get pregnant.
But the man can't get his hands on her tiny pet cat because he has such small hands?
Were they reboot arks or just re-imagined? Are they still canon?
^^^That would be a ecumenical matter. 
I love it when i get to use a Father Ted quote and it makes me look intelligent.
I love it when i get to use a Father Ted quote and it makes me look intelligent.
Sadly it is
The Ark was hidden by command of King Josiah, who was aware of the prophecies of the impending destruction. Several other vessels of the temple, including the High Priest's Breastplate were hidden by him as well. Kings II, don't know the chapter.
Maccabees II is not considered "Canon" in Jewish texts.
According to lore, there were two arks; one to contain the broken Tablets of Law, and the "primary" which contained the intact "Second Tablets". The one with the broken Tablets was taken out during battle as a symbol of inspiration and for Divine assistance.
The other always remained in the Temple and was only viewed by the High Priest during the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) services, described in Leviticus.
Thanks for going into more detail about a subject I find particularly interesting.
...and would have done so, presumably, had Indiana Jones never shown up at all - in essence, he merely serves to find it for them. The question then is who would have known its whereabouts to recover it from the island. Likely, it would have remained in the possession of the Nazis but I expect they wouldn't dare use it again. At the end of WW2, one of the Allied powers would have seized it, assuming that the Nazis not already destroyed it to put it out of reach.
Of course, all of the above is as fictional as the story about the relic.
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The thing about the Nazis in RAIDERS of the LOST ARK is that they're really not necessary to the story, at all ...
They provide motivation. The Nazis are why Indy goes after the Arc, right? Otherwise he'd be teaching his class.
Dr. René Belloq was only using the Nazis to help him locate and obtain the Ark of the Covenent, as surely as they were using him. But the evil the Nazis represent did sort of act as a more potent counterpoise to the godliness of the Ark, than just having Belloq scheming to exploit it for personal gain. That I'll admit ...
Absolutely.
Plus, the idea that Nazis had an interest in the occult has a history in popular fiction. This was exploited to enhance the pulpy atmosphere of the story by grounding the premise in modern, fringe myth, and it provided a reason for selecting the Nazis in particular as the villains.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occultism_in_Nazism#The_modern_mythology_of_Nazi_occultism
It's going to get damned confused now, if they ever haul it out of that warehouse.
A risk I'm willing to take.