Huh. I must just be crazy, horny, or crazy horny. I thought it looked like a vagina, as rendered by H.R. Giger.
While traveling it is permissible to pray facing the direction of travel.
That’s pretty much where I was going. It is undeniably yonic in appearance.
Looks vaguely like a bog seat
don’t all directions lead to mecca? or must it be the shortest distance?
I could be ‘at’ the black stone, turn my back to it and still be facing it - just from a much further position…
IOW, I used mapquest to find it.
Nah, not enough giant safety pins and spiked tentacles.
I’ve seen a computer-generated map showing continuously curved lines across a projection (not sure if it was a Mercator projection or some other kind) of the Earth’s surface specifically designed to show Muslims which way to face from any longitude or latitude.
Sailboat
To be fair, it’s the silver frame that has a questionable appearance. The Black Stone itself looks like a, er, black stone.
It is the frame, and the curtains surrounding it, yes. There are allegations out there that it was constructed this way purposely to resemble a vulva, but it’s hard to work out whether they’re true, myth-based or just completely made up.