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Mircea Eliade - On stones
Identifier
011434
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
stone may mean the planets in this context
A description of the experience
Mircea Eliade – Shamaism: Archaic techniques of Ecstasy
After that he came to an endless sea and there he found trees and seven stones. The stones spoke to him one after the other. The first had teeth like bears’ teeth and a basket shaped cavity and it revealed to him that it was the earth’s holding stone; it pressed on the fields with its weight, so that they should not be carried away by the wind. The second stone served to melt iron. He remained with these stones for seven days and so learned how they could be of use to men