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A fact from Al-Majdal, Tiberias appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 August 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know
- ... that Al-Majdal, Tiberias, a village depopulated in 1948, preserved the name of the ancient village reputed to be the birthplace of Mary Magdalene?
A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/August.

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Clarification on Aramaic versus Hebrew

There are many similarities between Hebrew & Aramaic, and many Talmudic phrases in Aramaic are used as idioms in modern Hebrew. Having said that, Nunaya is the plural for fish (nun) in Aramaic. In Hebrew it would be "dagim." Tzabaya is the Aramaic plural for dyers. It Hebrew it would be tsabai'im. Migdal is Hebrew for "tower." --Gilabrand (talk) 08:18, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Gaba

The link Gaba used near the end of the article goes nowhere useful. Zero^talk 01:59, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

hajar al-namla,

I just wondered; could the "hajar al-namla" that Khalidi writes about (and notice that it figures on the 1880-map!) ...could it be the same as the old lighthouse, seen in 1991? --Just a speculation.... Huldra (talk) 17:39, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking the same thing after reading it. I'm quite sure it is; however, for us to say so would be OR. Let's let the readers make their own connections. Cool too that the lighthouse base (for which the place is named) was found (even if only momentarily), no? Tiamut^talk 09:28, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

oh, I had no plan of adding it, as you say; just plain speculations. (Would have been nice with a picture, though;)) I find it facinating that old local myths often have a base in something very specific, -which might have become completely twisted over the ages. Btw, www.biblewalks.com/sites/magdala.html has some nice pictures (from the air), but it is spam-blocked. Cheers, Huldra (talk) 10:33, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Old myths and legends are my favourite too. I was really not made for this time. Would have been much much happier in an age when people co-existed with gnomes, fairies and elves. I admit that I still look for traces of them in the forests, but I think they are long gone now. Capitalism either killed them all or scared them away. Imagine if they did stick around, they would probably end up being enslaved and marketed as house helpers and babysitters for our kids. But I digress ... very far ... ;) Tiamut^talk 11:35, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

yeah, well, I saw the last Harry Potter-movie last week-end, and in "preparation" I (partially!) rewatched some of the earlier ones; I know *all* about house -elves ;)

-Slightly more "seriously", an example: in older days, when there was a ship-wreck along the coast here in the winter-time (and there were many, many)--if dead sailors drifted ashore, often the locals often had to bury them where they were found: bad storms (which were when the ships were wrecked-) meant that they would get killed if they tried to get them to the nearest church-yard. For the locals, this was a terrible, unholy necessity.

-Now, when they started collecting local myths around here, in the 19th and early 20th century: they reported several placed along the coast that were "haunted", filled with ghosts --according to locals. It has turned out, more than once, that this is exactly where there was a big ship-wreck --and perhaps 10-20-100 people were buried there 3-4-500 years back. Long forgotten dead ship-wrecked have been transformed into "ghosts". There are divers who search out such "haunted" shores, and goes diving just outside ...... -With ghostly greetings, Huldra (talk) 12:27, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

About house elves, you have them too? :)

Amazing story about the shipwreck. I've been reading about presentiment and other energy based sensing faculties that we to have and until recently, the scientific community was in denial of. It only makes sense that the community would be attuned to the energies left by that disaster: time isn't linear (I think its all present, all the time) and energy as matter is something very palpable. Anyway, thanks for sharing. Its too bad we have such strict sourcing requirements at Wiki and we can't have pages that can reflect some of this content. Maybe a folk Wiki is called for? Tiamut^talk 13:04, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]