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The Italian archaeologist E. Anati has publicised his research in Sinai and Mt Karkom … see http://www.harkarkom.com/Gallery.php In the variety we see the combination signpost, altar, sanctuary, signpost and altar see for instance pictures 23, 24, 36, 37, 57, 65, 68, 69, 135, 145, 162 and 163. Especially picture 119 is interesting since the sanctuary is a time circle and the starting point is perhaps the stone with a cupmark and a basin for water offer and opposite is a stone with a face. The face gives another dimension to the simple sanctuary. The more developed holy paces have maybe 7 or 12 stones telling about the connection to the ritual astronomy .
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In the Negew we see the variety from a long period from "face-stones" to sanctuaries. I see the faces as well as big cupmarks as manifestos of the Earth Mother over the ages. The earliest figurative symbolism with Inanna, the New Moon with spread legs leaving her seed to her twin sister Ereshkigal in Underworld symbolised by a big cupmark in our rock-carvings. Faces have surely been made for many thousand years but this is the ritual purpose
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This is excerpt from a reply caused by face in stone found near Rothbury, Northumberland Credit Aron Mazel at http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~catshaman/261mon/0monu1.htm
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