Flint sickle blades…..can your understanding of Aviv-barley survive a primitive harvest? This subject is so very important in determining when to harvest the fragile heirloom barley.
It’s exciting these sickle-blade relics were discovered on the Galilee at a point I pass by with great frequency. The excavation is called Ohalo. It’s part of a larger area called Tel Beit Yerach. Beit Yerach, House of the Moon, was a very ancient community that once sat on a new moon island where the Sea of Galilee opens to allow the Jordan River to continue its course south to the Dead Sea. The island has been bridged to the mainland over the years as when time filled in the portion of the river that had previously divided the island from the mainland.
What’s even MORE exciting to me is that this little island was the shape of a new crescent moon with the horns of the moon-shaped island facing east just as the moon in the sky does when it is in sickle on days one through four.
Since I frequent past this location, I have a sneaking suspicion that the Jordan sill maintains an underground water channel in the area of the landbridge. My clue is the eucalyptus trees. The trees still grow as majestic and tall where the river once flowed as they do where the Jordan can still be seen.