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Comment by trhway

5 years ago

almost sure so. Being religiously uneducated atheists we have no associations with "Calvary near the Koppen" while it seems to have had well defined semantics back then:

https://www.coursehero.com/file/p1upht4/What-is-the-signific...

"... conflated the concepts of Koppenberg , the hill of Calvary and Golgotha as though they all meant the same, but that can never have been the case. There were always substantial differences between them, as in the Middle Ages itself the concept of Calvary referred exclusively to the head or skull surmounting the jaws of Hell, otherwise referred to as the lion’s or dragon’s mouth, that swallows sinners while little demons spare no effort to push poor wretches into this mouth with their tridents or other implements. This was the typically medieval image of the journey to Hell or the entry into the jaws of Hell up to the era of the Crusades, when a Minister General of the Franciscan order interpreted the Bible in such a way that the hill of Calvary , the skull, became synonymous with Golgotha , a concept which later included an association with any place of execution, and thus Calvary acquired a new significance ..."