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==85:1. WORSHIP OF STONES AND HILLS==

==85:1. WORSHIP OF STONES AND HILLS==

85:1.1 The first object to be [[worshiped]] by evolving man was a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_(geology) stone]. Today the [http://www.indiadivine.org/audarya/shakti-sadhana/93592-kateri-2.html Kateri people] of southern India still [[worship]] a stone, as do numerous [[tribes]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ northern India]. Jacob slept on a stone because he venerated it; he even anointed it. Rachel concealed a number of sacred stones in her tent.

85:1.1 The first object to be [[worshiped]] by evolving man was a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_(geology) stone]. Today the [http://www.indiadivine.org/audarya/shakti-sadhana/93592-kateri-2.html Kateri people] of southern India still [[worship]] a stone, as do numerous [[tribes]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_India northern India]. Jacob slept on a stone because he venerated it; he even anointed it. Rachel concealed a number of sacred stones in her tent.

85:1.2 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_(geology) Stones] first impressed [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#PAPER_64:_THE_EVOLUTIONARY_RACES_OF_COLOR early man] as being out of the ordinary because of the [[manner]] in which they would so suddenly appear on the [[surface]] of a cultivated field or pasture. Men failed to take into account either [[erosion]] or the results of the overturning of [[soil]]. Stones also greatly impressed early peoples because of their frequent resemblance to [[animals]]. The [[attention]] of civilized man is arrested by numerous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_of_the_Mountain stone formations] in the mountains which so much resemble the [[faces]] of [[animals]] and even men. But the most [[profound]] [[influence]] was exerted by [[meteor]]ic stones which [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN primitive humans] beheld hurtling through the [[atmosphere]] in flaming grandeur. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoroid shooting star] was [[awesome]] to [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#PAPER_64:_THE_EVOLUTIONARY_RACES_OF_COLOR early man], and he easily believed that such blazing streaks marked the [[passage]] of a [[spirit]] on its way to [[earth]]. No [[wonder]] men were led to [[worship]] such [[phenomena]], especially when they subsequently [[discovered]] the [[meteors]]. And this led to greater [[reverence]] for all other stones. In [http://books.google.com/books?id=mEvJ557g8nwC&lpg=PA82&ots=KW3uQwbkxl&dq=bengal%201880%20meteor&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q=bengal%201880%20meteor&f=false Bengal] many [[worship]] a meteor which fell to [[earth]] in A.D. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1880 1880].

85:1.2 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_(geology) Stones] first impressed [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#PAPER_64:_THE_EVOLUTIONARY_RACES_OF_COLOR early man] as being out of the ordinary because of the [[manner]] in which they would so suddenly appear on the [[surface]] of a cultivated field or pasture. Men failed to take into account either [[erosion]] or the results of the overturning of [[soil]]. Stones also greatly impressed early peoples because of their frequent resemblance to [[animals]]. The [[attention]] of civilized man is arrested by numerous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_of_the_Mountain stone formations] in the mountains which so much resemble the [[faces]] of [[animals]] and even men. But the most [[profound]] [[influence]] was exerted by [[meteor]]ic stones which [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN primitive humans] beheld hurtling through the [[atmosphere]] in flaming grandeur. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoroid shooting star] was [[awesome]] to [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#PAPER_64:_THE_EVOLUTIONARY_RACES_OF_COLOR early man], and he easily believed that such blazing streaks marked the [[passage]] of a [[spirit]] on its way to [[earth]]. No [[wonder]] men were led to [[worship]] such [[phenomena]], especially when they subsequently [[discovered]] the [[meteors]]. And this led to greater [[reverence]] for all other stones. In [http://books.google.com/books?id=mEvJ557g8nwC&lpg=PA82&ots=KW3uQwbkxl&dq=bengal%201880%20meteor&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q=bengal%201880%20meteor&f=false Bengal] many [[worship]] a meteor which fell to [[earth]] in A.D. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1880 1880].