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Just as McCartney started rumors of his death by appearing on the Abbey Road cover without shoes and on Sergeant Pepper wearing an armband marked "OPD" (alleged to mean Officially Pronounced Dead), so did 2Pac, on his new album, slyly adopt the name "Makaveli"--like Machiavelli, who, according to 2Pac's rapping confrere Chuck D, faked his own death to fool his enemies--and pose on the cover in a crucifixion pose, suggesting he intended a resurrection.
Known as the Cruz de Portugal (Cross of Portugal), it depicts the crucifixion of Christ on one face and the descent from the cross on the other.
The temple was demolished and a vast, Classical-style church was built around Golgotha (the hill where Jesus’s crucifixion was believed to have taken place).
After his crucifixion, the rather precarious balance of Jewish government under Roman rule turned to revolt in a.d. 66, when the Zealots took Jerusalem.
But it sounded more like a crucifixion."