Middle East NW P118 5000p 2019-2024 UNC｜military｜dictatorship｜flag｜Раlмyга｜bird god of sky

Dates: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

Color: Grey

Back: Fresco at the Temple of Baalshamin at Раlмyга.

• Baalshamin was a god worshiped from at least 1000 BCE until conversion to Christianity by the 200s CE/AD.
• His domain was the sky as an active force—not an abstract heaven, but the living realm of wind, clouds, rain, and seasonal renewal.
• The bird fresco feels like the ceiling coming alive; they are motion captured, wings caught mid-flight, evoking wind, sky, and the invisible forces ruling above human reach.
• For worshippers, what circles high overhead was suddenly right here: present, watching, moving, alive. They gave form to the god’s domain: storms gathering, rain promised, the breath of the heavens.
• In a desert city where survival depended on the sky’s favor, they reminded people: power sat not still—it passed, hovered, and returned—like the weather.
  
  
• Palmyra was a wealthy caravan city in the desert that flourished between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE/AD
• It linked the Roman world with Persia and Arabia through trade, architecture, and a distinctive fusion of cultures: Greco-Roman and Near Eastern.