cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/54243
Walking through the savanna-woodland landscape of Boé National Park, Guinea-Bissau, you might encounter a tree covered in gnarled scars, with an accumulation of rocks surrounding its base.
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Have you ever followed what Muslims do on the Hadj? They throw stones at three pillars representing Satan. Maybe the monkeys have invented religion?
Pillars? I thought they throw stones to a giant black cube
Nope. That cube is the thing they walk around seven times, but on another day.
And inside the cube is an altar made from an iron-nickel meteorite.
It’s not inside, it is inset into a corner on the outside.
It’s pillars. The cube is what they pray towards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning_of_the_Devil
Wow, I just posted that, and now I’m going to have to go back and delete my post.