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Latest revision as of 07:51, 28 June 2012
- Mount Arafat: granite hill, the site of Muslim pilgrimage near Mecca
- "In his early days as a shepherd Mohammed had lived much with nature; he had seen the pale dawn touch the grim summits of Mount Hira and Mount Arafat, had heard the thunder roll through the sounding passes of the hills." (Edith Holland, The Story of Mohammed, p.52) → cubehouse
- thunder → Viconian thunder
- Thunder: the title of Sura 13, Ra'd, of the Koran
- Ararat: Noah's ark came to rest "upon the mountains of Ararat" (Genesis 8:4)
- farts → in his guise as the giant Finn MacCool, HCE's are thunderous
- Our Fathers → The Lord's Prayer
- ara: (Latin) altar → "And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord" (Genesis 8:20)
- ara-fata: (Latin) altar + (English) father = Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac
- his (arra? orra?...other?) fatas: his ... tales of adventure
- A'raf: (Arabic) Araf, Eminences, the title of Sura 7 of the Koran
