[meteorite-list] Hajar al-Aswad/Related
From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Jan 20 11:27:48 2005 Message-ID: <20050120162745.11762.qmail_at_web53207.mail.yahoo.com> Dear List, In Asia, serveral temples house meteorites. In Japan, Niho or Miho and another witnessed fall are housed in temples that are/were built near the fall sites. In China, historically meteorites were thought to be an important sign from the Heavens of events to come or a "lucky" site for building a Taoist temple (there is still one reported to be housed in a temple). In the Americas, Potter, Nebraska (found by my Great Grandfather;my son was buried with a Potter meteorite and an arrowhead in a bison skin medicine pouch in 1996) was found located next to an Indian campsite on a hilltop; hilltops often are associated with `worship` sites. There are several other examples in the Americas of meteorites being associated with temples or prehistoric sites and burials. I suspect that Mecca was a fall site (but this does not determine if the `Rock` is the real meteorite) as well as Jeruselum, because humans were looking for messages from Heaven. I wouldn`t be surprised if the site of the pyramids in Egypt was also a fall site because man was looking for linking this life with that in the Heavens for the Afterlife. Best Always in LIFE, Dirk Ross...Tokyo __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 Received on Thu 20 Jan 2005 11:27:45 AM PST |
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