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The Black Stone was held in reverence well before the preaching of Islam by Muhammad. It had long been associated with the Kaaba, which was built in the pre-Islamic period and was a site of pilgrimage of Nabateans who visited the shrine once a year to perform their pilgrimage
Highland Fleet Lute Either/or, what is its elemental make up?No idea. I'd hazard a guess that it's standard meteorite material.
Why do 1000's of people swirl around it?Loopy Muzzies looking for a religious high, and probably getting one. Then again, there's this.
Loopy Muzzies looking for a religious high, and probably getting one. Then again, there's this.Well yeah sure, but what is the original basis for thousands of muzzies swirling around a lump (or several lumps) of rock of unknown composition/origin.
That said, there's probably something to transcribing a circle or spiral with one's feet, although it might depend on knowing why you're doing it.Sure, a nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat, as per: stones, circles, prayer mats, mandalas, holy tomes, etc.
It had long been associated with the Kaaba, which was built in the pre-Islamic period and was a site of pilgrimage of Nabateans
The Nabatean Kingdom was a powerful political entity which flourished in the region of modern-day Jordan between the 4th century BCE and c. 106 CE and is best known today for the ruins of its capital city of Petra.
Nabateans were Arabian nomads from the Negev Desert who amassed their wealth first as traders on the Incense Routes
'Incense Routes' refers to a number of different directions traders took between southern Arabia and the port of Gaza between the 7th/6th centuries BCE and the 2nd century CE.
Worlds in Collision (1950) was Velikovsky's first book, and his biggest seller. A remarkable work of bullshit, it reads rather like some kind of elaborate drama-documentary. The narrative begins at the Biblical tale of Moses leading the Israelites from Egypt, with plagues, parting Red Seas, columns of fire, and manna raining from heaven, and proceeds through various Old Testament bible stories (e.g. the Sun standing still for Joshua). In some rather eye-watering leaps of imagination, Velikovsky uses (wait for it) comparative mythology to painstakingly argue his case that these Biblical events were real, and happened not just in the Near East but all over the world, and are described in the legends, religions, and writings of other cultures too
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