"This which they call “stone,” is the head of Aphrodite… whom they call Chabar [Kabar]" -- John of Damascus 730s A.D.
The Islamic symbol of The crescent (moon) and star (venus) are originally symbols of Auset/Isis.
The Black Ka'aba Stone bore the emblem of the Yoni, Sacred Symbol of Female Creative Power.
The Sacred Black Stone (in Arabic "Hajar ul Aswad") is said to be sent down from Heaven but more realistically, according to Dr. Ben Yochannnen it was originally a meteorite, carried from Ethiopia by Sabeans.
At Mecca the Goddess was Shaybah or Sheba, (SABA) the Old Woman, worshipped as a black stone . The sacred Black Stone now enshrined in the Kaaba at Mecca was her feminine symbol, marked by the sign of the yoni, and covered like the ancient Mother by a veil. Shaybah being, of course, the famous Queen Sheeba of Solomon’s times.
The Kushite/Sabean's Spiritual & Cosmological System recognized the moon (Auset)and planned their "religious rites" around the lunar calendar. One such rite was fasting from crescent moon to crescent moon, a practice which would also be adopted by Muhammad.
It is interesting to note that Sheba/Saba/Auset is symbolic of the moon, and SOL-AMUN (Solomon) symbolic of the sun or star
From Richard King's book "Melanin: A Key to Freedom" about the Black Ka'aba Stone:
"Thus, for many followers of Islam the experience of viewing the Black Stone Meteorite El Ka'aba in Mecca evokes the inner vision image and experience of God. This inner vision event was likely to have been experienced by the same Africans who brought the Black Stone from Ethiopia to Arabia long before the birth of the Prophet Mohamet. It is equally important to note that in Kemet, the genetic child of Ethiopia, Black Stones were given Divine Value. Black stones were often placed as the all Black pyramiadon cap stones upon the top of pyramids, an all black stone room (rose granite being a black granite with flecks of red as the King's chamber is the highest room in the interior of the Great Pyramid of Giza), and a special system of linear measurement being used by Kamites when working in Black Stone, the Black Cubit or nilometric cubit."
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