Motif
divine descent of a sacred architectural model
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A motif of the Sacred Craft and Divinely Aided Construction family, within the sub-family Miraculous Buildings, Temples, and Halls. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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islamic
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 5622-5672 confidence: medium
Muslims are said to believe the Caaba is nearly coeval with the world: Adam, after expulsion from paradise, asked God for a building like the Beit al Mmr he had seen, toward which he might pray and which he might compass as angels do the celestial one; God sent down a representation in curtains of light and placed it in Mecca beneath the original.
God lets down a representation of the celestial house in curtains of light and sets it in Mecca; a footnote gives a variant in which the house itself descends from heaven and later returns at the Flood.
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