Plate: Machiventa Melchizedek teaching at Salem

Depicts

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Machiventa arrived 1,973 years before the birth of Jesus; first seen entering the tent of Amdon, a Chaldean herder (93:2.1)
Salem was the site of later Jebus, then Jerusalem; he was called the sage, sheik or king of Salem (93:2.4)
He resembled the blended Nodite and Sumerian peoples, almost six feet tall, with a commanding presence; dressed much like the Canaanite priests, but wore on his breast an emblem of three concentric circles (93:2.5)
His body resembled a human male's (93:2.6)
He organized schools at Salem on the old Sethite pattern (93:3.1); the three circles were taken by most as the kingdoms of men, angels and God (93:3.3)
Believers signed or marked clay-tablet rolls (93:4.1)
No sacrifices inside the colony; a sacrament of bread and wine; tribes kept sacrificial altars on the outskirts (93:4.14)
He taught at Salem for 94 years; Abraham attended three times (93:4.16)
Abraham improved the Salem temple and provided new tents for the whole school; herds and dairying (93:6.8)

School shown as an encampment of large tents around a modest temple on the hills of what became Jerusalem
Three concentric circles as a simple flat breast emblem, plain metal or embroidered, no other symbol
Middle Bronze Age Canaanite dress for students and herders

His face, beard and skin tone (only 'resembled the blended Nodite and Sumerian peoples' is given), the colours of his garments, the temple's architecture, the exact landscape

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