Har Karkom HK190, HK190b - (w) warring tribesComment: Emmanuel Anati argues, and I believe very convincingly, that Har Karkom is the Mt. Sinai of Moses Exodus out of Egypt. Some seven years prior to ever seeing Har Karkom I had a dream in which a Stone Age man and two women were on the southwest edge of a mesa top at a flint workshop site. The man fashioned a large triangular stone biface. Then he was standing on the northern edge of the mesa looking out over the valley beyond. Down in the valley were two warring tribes. He, I held up in the palm of both hands the pyramidal biface, presenting it, up above and forward from his head in a kind of tribute gesture. This was seen by the people below. They were impressed, awed by it. The warring armies were reconciled by this; there was peace. [This resonates with the story of Exodus 17 in which Moses at Rephidim stands atop a hill overlooking the warring armies of Israel and Amalek, raising and lowering his staff.] Illustration © Anati, E. (1993). Har Karkom in the light of new discoveries. Capo di Ponte, Italy: Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici; fig. 18, p.27. |