A white rabbit? Seriously? Is this a joke?
The Big Black Box the pilgrims walk around at Hajj actually containsโฆa black rock.
The Black Stone (Arabic: โ, al-แธคajaru al-Aswad, 'Black Stone') is a rock set into the eastern corner of the Kaaba, the ancient building in the center of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is revered by Muslims as an Islamic relic which, according to Muslim tradition, dates back to the time of Adam and Eve.[1]
The stone was venerated at the Kaaba in pre-Islamic pagan times. According to Islamic tradition, it was set intact into the Kaaba's wall by the Islamic prophet Muhammad in 605 CE, five years before his first revelation. Since then it has been broken into fragments and is now cemented into a silver frame in the side of the Kaaba. Its physical appearance is that of a fragmented dark rock, polished smooth by the hands of pilgrims. Islamic tradition holds that it fell from heaven as a guide for Adam and Eve to build an altar. It has often been described as a meteorite.[2]
Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba as a part of the tawaf ritual during the hajj and many try to stop to kiss the Black Stone, emulating the kiss that Islamic tradition records that it received from Muhammad.[3][4] Muslims do not worship the Black Stone.
The Black Stone was originally a single piece of rock but today consists of a number of pieces which have been cemented together. They are surrounded by a silver frame which is fastened by silver nails to the Kaaba's outer wall.[7] The fragments are themselves made up of smaller pieces which have been combined to form the seven or eight fragments visible today. The Stone's exposed face measures about 20 centimetres (7.9 in) by 16 centimetres (6.3 in). Its original size is unclear and the recorded dimensions have changed considerably over time, as the pieces have been rearranged in their cement matrix on several occasions.
The Black Stone plays a central role in the ritual of istilam, when pilgrims kiss the Black Stone, touch it with their hands or raise their hands towards it while repeating the takbir, "God is Greatest". They perform this in the course of walking seven times around the Kaaba in a counterclockwise direction (tawaf), emulating the actions of Muhammad. At the end of each circuit, they perform istilam and may approach the Black Stone to kiss it at the end of tawaf.
Islamic tradition holds that the Black Stone fell from Jannah to show Adam and Eve where to build an altar, which became the first temple on Earth.[49] Muslims believe that the stone was originally pure and dazzling white, but has since turned black because of the sins of the people who touch it. The nature of the Black Stone has been much debated. It has been described variously as basalt stone, an agate, a piece of natural glass or โ most popularly โ a stony meteorite. The Black Stone has never been analysed with modern scientific techniques and its origins remain the subject of speculation.
A "red stone" was associated with the deity of the south Arabian city of Ghaiman, and there was a "white stone" in the Kaaba of al-Abalat (near the city of Tabala, south of Mecca).
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 Nabataeans who visited the shrine once a year to perform their pilgrimage. The Kaaba held 360 idols of the Meccan gods. The Semitic cultures of the Middle East had a tradition of using unusual stones to mark places of worship, a phenomenon which is reflected in the Hebrew Bible as well as the Qur'an, although bowing to or kissing such sacred objects is repeatedly described in the Tanakh as idolatrous and was the subject of prophetic rebuke The meteorite-origin theory of the Black Stone has seen it likened by some writers to the meteorite which was placed and worshipped in the Greek Temple of Artemis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Stone
Not intended as a Notable, just a bit of interdasting info. Perhaps another anon wondered what was in the box as well. Now more know. Magic rocks.
Original, archaic spiral symbol represents the whirlpool of water flowing down a drain.
It's an old sign for an establishment like; a bathhouse, or bar, or whorehouse, or massage parlor, or barber, or surgeon, or whatever personal services required cleanliness.
It's a money maker.
"Watch the water"
WIth Geometry and a few simple tools, an ancient stonemason could turn a triangular rock, into a round column.
The different between a pile of stones and a palace is geometry.
Squaring the circle literally means turning a round column out of stone. The columns of an establishment.
Think, "Build it and they will come."
It's the foundational thought of opening a business, very ancient stuff.
How is a barberpole like a whirlpool?
Think history of services offered.
Local hospitals just announced mandatory CV testing and 3 day quarantine prior to any elective medical procedures. Good thing I've got a sharp knife at home.
If you're on a ship, and it's dark, you'd be looking for a lighthouse, eh?
Same geometry would be used to layout a tunnel,
Note the circle, inside the square, inside the triangle.