>>21592514The first mention of the city of Jerusalem is in the Egyptian Execration Texts of the 19th–18th centuries b.c.e. The name is spelled wš mm and was probably pronounced "rushalimum." In the Tell el-Amarna letters of the 14th century b.c.e., it is written Urusalim, and in Assyrian Ursalimmu (Sennacherib inscription). In the Bible it is usually spelled yrushlm and sometimes yrushlym (pronounced "Yerushalayim"). The city of Salem (Gen. 14:18; Ps. 76:3) is evidently Jerusalem. The Greek Hierosolyma reflects the "holiness" (hieros, "holy") of the city. It seems that the original name was Irusalem, and the meaning of the two words composing it is "to found" ("yarah") and the name of the West Semitic sun god Shulmanu, also knows as Ninurta (Ninib). The god may have been considered the patron of the city, which had contained a sanctuary in his honor.
This becomes more evident in the El-Amarna letters, written by the king of Jerusalem Abdi-Heba to Pharaoh Amenhotep III. This city was known at that time also by the name “Temple of Šulmán/Bit-Ninib”. After complaining that the land was falling to the invading bands (habiru), the king of Jerusalem wrote: “. . . and now, in addition, the capital of the country of Jerusalem — its name is Bit Šulmáni —, the king’s city, has broken away ..” Beth Šulmán in Hebrew is Temple of Šulmán, it was a place of worship (in Canaanite times) of a god found in Akkadian sources as Shelmi, Salman, Shulmanu, or Salamu.
The Goetia is more astrological than historical. The Testament of Solomon, the first Goetic text associated with this Israeli king, speaks of 36 demons representing the 36 decans of the zodiac. 36x2=72. Do the 36 decans of the zodiac/365 days of the year revolve around counting the Earth's rotation around the Sun? But what does the Sun have to do with Solomon?
