Hey, cool info!
Regarding Golgotha, meaning, 'the place of the skull', I recall that in Orthodox Christianity, it meant the place where the traveling Israelites buried the skull of Adam, their white ancestor. It was later the place where Jesus was crucified. The blood dripping down into the soil onto the buried skull of Adam being the meaning of how the blood of Christ washed away sin from the world. Cool old fable. The Greeks take this seriously. So do many Catholics.
https://www.sttimothysws.org/lectionary-blog/2020/2/28/adams-skull
I had read about this, but it's not very likely :
"that is to say, a place of a skull: some say Adam's skull was found here, and from thence the place had its name; this is an ancient tradition, but without foundation {m}: it seems to be so called, because it was the place where malefactors were executed, and afterwards buried; whose bones and skulls in process of time might be dug up, and some of them might lie scattered about in this place: for, one that was executed as a malefactor {n}," John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible, commentary about Matthew 27:33
And also, some stone formations in this place, depending on how the time the sun beat down, and projected the shadow, it looked like a skull.
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