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stones fallen from the moon (meteorites), and in the processions
which in ancient Carthage accompanied sacrifices to Moloch, these
Abaddirs were carried hung in silver filagree slings. "By their
fall these stones signified the planets, the sky, the fire; by
their color the darkness of the night; and by their density the
cohesion of terrestrial things." (Salambo)
Buddhism also as well as Mohammedanism and the Poly-
theisms of Rome, Greece, and Carthage, had its sacred "heaven
stone", and in India the old Nawabs and Maharajahs were very fond
of wearing a tulwar or a scimetar made from the fine grained iron
of the "Swarga-stone" of "steel which fell from Heaven; for Indra
forged that blade."
the Diana of the Ephesians, the Venus of Cyprus
Almost beyond doubt the Palladium and all those mystic
stones of the antique temples were aerolites; and those magic and
resistless blades, forged from thunderbolts or fallen from Heaven,
which have been wielded by gods and heroes in the mythologies of
all races, unquestionably have a common origin in some rude blade
rough-forged from the tough, fine-grained iron of an aerolite
(siderite).
The behaviour of a blade of such superlative metal would,
in those primitive days, easily obtain for it a reputation for
supernatural qualities and this reputation would be tenfold en-
hanced by the heavenly origin of the metal.
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