The black stone hypotheses

The black stone hypotheses

Two ideas of how the Black stone might have started.
I The Black Stone of Elagabalus
The Aramaic form of name of Elagabal is Ilaha Gabal, meaning "God of the mountain". Mountain gods had been known in Anatolia, Syria, and Palestine since Hittite times, and they continued to be venerated up until the Roman age. They were often portrayed with eagles. At a later stage, the worshippers of Elagabal were influenced by the cult of the Babylonian sun god Šamaš. Elagabal has also been compared to the Chaldaean god Gibil, which can be translated as "god of the black stone". Gebal is a Semitic root which means "to create".

II The Code of Hammurabi
The ancient Babylonians had their moral code on a black stone: was this the inspiration for the mythical stone in a cave? Hammurabi's code was inscribed in 1776 BC. Did the Tayaye imagine that their founder was led by a heavenly and mystical tablet of stone on which the Tayaye's code was inscribed? Did this lead to a more fleshed out myth, a prophet with a heavenly book? And then, was there a splitting of the myth into two: a qur'an in Arabic and a black stone in the kaaba of Mecca?



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