Well, well, well...whatever the ha'A'aron was ('ark', 'chest') it seems to have emitted some kind of orgone energy which affected those standing around it--the Guardians in Aksum all eventually get eye-cataracts for some strange reason ! (well, beats 'golden hemmeroids' !)

This chest / box --made of some kind of Acacia wood covered with gold plates, with a solid and very heavy gold lid called a Kippurah, lit i.e. a 'Forgiveness' Seat ('mercy seat') where the high Priest had to spill certain blood sacrifices on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) which was coverd by 2 winged pagan idols called 'Cherubim' (lit. 'shooting swords')---seems to have disappeared during the reign of the Judaen clan chief Mannasseh son of Hezekiah around BC 685, who eventually exiled the Yahwistic Priestly families and outlawed the worship of YHWH the clan god of 'Yisro'el'. Presumably, Mr Manasseh wanted to melt down the solid gold lid and make coins or bars from it, to be used for currency during his financial crises and in preparation of his war against Assyria and other neighbours.

Apparently, some Yahwistic priestly loyalists scurried the sacred box to safety across to Egypt and then down to Elephantine Island until around AD 380 --there is a smaller replica of the Solomonic Temple built on Elephantine complete with a Qadosh Qadoshim (holy of holies inner shrine) and also on the Island some some remnants of some ancient Ephodim (fortunetelling linen garments with metal underpinning worn over the chest) were also recently recovered in the area, along with Inscriptions from around 820BC e.g. 'This is Sacred to Yahweh and his Asherah', i.e. the wife of the Israelite clan god.

We know from hundreds of surviving tablets and inscriptions that the ancient 'Israelites' (or the tribal amphyctionies that went later by that name) before the Exile into Babylon (BC 5487) commonly worshipped Yahweh and many, many other gods & goddesses side by side fairly widely until the strict 480BC Yahweh-Only' reforms of Ezra the Scribe outlawed syncretism and re-issued the injunction found in Deut chapter 6 placed into the mouth of Moses:

"Yahweh is our clan god, Yahweh alone' i.e. no other clan gods but Yahweh (Heb. "YHWH elohenu, YHWH echad" often mis-translated into American English as 'The LORD is our god, The LORD is one...') and began the process the eventual compilation of the Torah versions (4 of them now exist thanks to the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Samaritan Pentatech and Origen's Hexapla !) as we read it today.

The Ethopian Christian priests in the town of Axum in what used to be called Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) claim to have at least one Ha'A'aron in their possession at the Monastery Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion (rebuilt around the year 1640 CE) whose Guardian priests almost without exception tend to get cataracts of the eyes within a few years of being in its presence. One celibate Guardian of the haA'aron said, "the relic is a terrible thing to behold !...' It is commonly draped by heavy woven cloth material to keep it clean and away from what they call 'impious eyes'

These Ethiopian Guardians claim it to be very old, and possibly one that once was housed in the temple of Solomon on Mt Moriah, but it could be a copy, since it is possible that there existed several of these items in antiquity). Ethiopian churches commonly each have a tablet which they call 'arks' housed near their altars--possibly there were dozens of 'Arks' that were made since prior to the Exile (BCE 587), there were several dozen cult shrines dedicated to YHWH, Asherah, Ba'al, Molek, El-Elyon, El-Shaddai, Chemosh, Amon, Milkom etal. all worshipped for centuries after King David in the 'high places' of Eretz Yisro'el (both in the northern cult centers such as Dan, Shechem, Shiloah, Mamre, Mizpach, Beer-Shebaq, Gilgal ('Stone Circle'), Luz-Bethel, Carnaim, Megiddo, etc. all of which may have had Ark-like boxes of their own, who knows !

If all those Arks were identical, it wouldn't matter which was taken to Ethiopia. The one Wyatt saw had the Ten Commandment tablets in it and a giant sword and some other temple artifacts in the cave. The thing that gave it power was the entity that was playing God with them. I don't believe it was the Supreme being, if there is one. When it was hidden away the entity obviously left. So it wouldn't be dangerous unless it builds up static electricity to some degree.

Firstly...

Maj. Eaton: We have top men working on it now.
Indiana: Who?
Maj. Eaton: Top... men.

Secondly...

Indiana: Marion, don't look at it. Shut your eyes, Marion. Don't look at it, no matter what happens!

Toht: IT'S BEAUTIFUL!

Thirdly...

50 bucks riding on the Commandments being laser carved and given to mankind from Extra Terrestrials in an attempt to get them to stop killing each other. Stupid Moses Ass fell down and broke the damn things screwing us all.

So what happened I have searched the net and aint seen anything

Holy cow are those black guys outback in the shed finished that fake ark already.They got the design from indiana jones the movie and its just a wooden box painted gold with plastic handels made in china.Oh dear friday has come and gone and i cannot see anything on the horizon yet.Newsflash it would seem some plastic rinstones fell off the box and thoses black guys are running around looking for some superglue to fix it.Last time i heard they were running down the road to buy some superglue from the discount store.Maybe they have made a wooden holy grail to go with it.

Moses - " And behold, the 10 commandments of our lord!" *drops tablet* "The 5 commandments!" *drops other tablet* "OK, I'm just gonna tell you what it said..."

Oh, and BTW, the whole taking the lord's name in vain thing... saying his name doesn't mean anything. Taking the name in vain, is exploiting the name for personal gain, such as the crusades, or jihad, or saying you are doing something because god told you to. And THAT makes you a blasphemer. Not just exclaiming "jesus christ!" or "god da#$it" when you stub your toe... (sorry, caught that little off topic conversation going on there for a minute.)

Wouldn't yesterday's Solar eclipse have been a good time for the Ark to be unveiled?

Well I hope the worlds not ending. I have a young daughter and my wife is pregnant again. I want my children to grow and experience life!

If the is coming not much us avage people can do.

I'm going to stay optimistic and also I tend not believe end of world stuff.

if it does truly exist i maybe be heading back to church again ..lol

no serious this would be a boost to their believability because most of the things they say in the bible are just plain weird things that never happened

What happened to this story? It got co opted by the ritual sacrifice of "The King of Pop" Michael Jackson, in L.A. on the 33 degree parallel...as a diversion..Wanna know more ? Dig deeper read Apocalypse culture..King Kill 33 degrees by Adam Parfrey...more will be revealed..