Before Mecca, there were the Egyptians, the Hittites, the sea peoples, and Abraham.
The Philistine sea peoples attempted to invade Egypt by land, and were pushed back to their camps in the Gaza strip. Later, after defeating the Sherden sea peoples in the Nile delta, Pharoh Ramses solved the problem of future threats by incorporating surviving captives into his own army.
The sea peoples also raided the Hittite coast, in what we now call Anatolia of south east Turkey.
The sea peoples and Egyptians were enemies of the Hittites.
After Ramses signed a Hittite peace treaty, the Egyptian Sherden may have joined the Philistines and other sea peoples in the Gaza strip, further protecting Egypt from the Hittites.
Note how close Abraham’s Beer Sheva is, to what we now call Palestine.
How did Abraham get to Beer Sheba?
He walked with his sheep and part of his Family to Haran in South East Turkey, where his Father died. They returned to Syria, as shown on the map below.
Israel was at war with the Philistines, and the battle was to be decided by combat with each side’s champions.
Below, the King’s highway went east from Egypt, then north, past Damascus.
Passes, between Beersheba and Petra, are also shown.
A straight line from Abraham’s Beersheba to Petra, is only about 75 miles or 120 km.
Mecca is about ten times further at 750 miles or 1200 km.
When Hagar was banished to the desert, did she travel 75 miles/120 km, or 750 miles/1200 km to the well of Zamzam between the Safa and Marwa hills?
Dan Gibson used the oldest muslim prayer direction walls, to answer many more questions… such as “Why did the people of Medina dig a ditch to protect them from attacking Meccans, on the NORTH side of their city?”.
The Saudis would have you believe that Hagar’s Safa and Marwa “hills” are rocks currently inside a building, next to the circle, around the large, black Kaaba.
Above, are the indoor “hills’ of Safa and Marwa.
Above, is the Kaaba circle next to an indoor area, with the Safa and Marwa rocks.
If Ishmael and Hagar’s Zamzam well between Safa, and Marwa are in Petra, they may have headed east from Beersheba, and crossed a usually dry Wadi Arabah to enter the thaniya crack in the rocks, or western Siq.
As Dan Gibson pointed out in his Holy City video, it looks like the 048-024 reference to Mecca, may have been an alteration of the word Becca. After a destructive earthquake killed many people, Petra became known as a place of sorrow, or the Bakkah in 003-096.
Of course, Mecca is NOT in a valley.
Jay Smith’s Mecca video: