Episode 1:
The City of Gaadh :
3000 BC, a small city called Gaadh was built on top of Mount Ebal, 100 hundred kilometers away from the Negev desert, on the east bank of the Jordan River.
At the top of the hill there is a huge pot-shaped lake, the lake has sparkling clear blue water.
The expansion of the Gaadh city is built around this clear water lake.
At the foot of Ebal Hill there are olive groves and some fresh water springs.
The city of Gaadh gradually became a very important and popular place of pilgrimage for the Hittites and Amalekites.
The reason for its importance and popularity is that this city of Gaadh is home to Hepoti, the main temple of Baal, the god of fertility, and Asherah, the goddess of sexuality .
The Hittites and Amalekites worshiped their own gods and goddesses as well as the foreign gods Baal and the goddess Asherah.
For about a hundred years, the Hepoti temple in the city of Gaadh had been established as a place of pilgrimage for the Hittites and Amalekites.
The main temple of Baal and Asherah is called Hepoti.
Hepoti means heavenly or sacred palace.
This Hepoti temple is built by cutting the rock from the hill.
Sometimes special places are worked with gold.
Standing side by side in the middle of the magnificent temple square are the golden statues of the god Baal and the goddess Asherah, the two statues are fifteen cubits high and four cubits wide.
There is a 16/10 feet altar in front of both the huge idols. It is at this altar that animals and new-born children are sacrificed every year on the full moon night of the month of Abib after the Phylo festival.
Then the smell of sacrificed blood and fat around the temple creates intoxication and delusion in the human brain.