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Hiram and declares that Hiram is his descendant. He initiates Hiram into
the Mystery of Fire and the secret of bronze casting. Tubal-Cain gives
Hiram his great hammer and a Golden Triangle to wear as a pendant
round his neck. Hiram then successfully recasts the brazen sea. Hiram
and Balkis, the Queen of Sheba, fall in love. A jealous Solomon
instigates the murder of Hiram and the widow Balkis leaves, pregnant
with Hiram’s son. He is the son of the widow, whose many descendants
will complete the building of the Temple.
The knowledge of metals and explosive force has always gone
hand-in-hand with religion. The Shahnameh or Book of the Legendary
Kings of Persia demonstrates this relationship. The Arabian poet
Firdowsi wrote the Shahnameh in 1010CE. He describes the early Indo-
Iranian kings of the Persians Kiyumars and Jemshid. Chosen by Ahura
Mazda, their faces shone brilliantly with the Glory of God called the
khvarnah or farr-i izadi. It adorned Ahura Mazda as a large ring or
diadem. This Kingly Fortune gave the prince Jemshid an intimate
knowledge of God and the ability to carve hard substances without the use
of conventional tools. 211 In blacksmithing weapons, he was able to: 212
…mold iron into such equipment as helmets, chain mail,
laminated armour as well as missile-proof vests, to swords and horsearmour.
Sadly, Jemshid became a tyrannical ruler. He delighted in the
words of falsehood and untruth and the Glory was seen to flee away from
him in the shape of a bird. 213 The next Iranian hero to possess the Kingly
Fortune was Feridun.
Mircea Eliade summarizes the connection between religion and
the smithy in the age of metals as follows: 214
There would appear to have existed therefore, at several different
cultural levels (which is the mark of great antiquity), a close connection
between the art of the smith, the occult sciences (shamanism, magic,
healing etc) and the art of song, dance and poetry … One element
nevertheless is constant - that is the sacredness of metal and … all mining
and metallurgical operations …It is in any case significant that in
contrast to pre-agricultural and pre-metallurgical mythologies, where, as
a natural prerogative, God is the possessor of the thunderbolt … in the
myths of historic peoples, on the other hand (Egypt, the Near East and the
Indo-Europeans), the God of the hurricane receives these weapons -
lightning and thunder - from a divine smith.
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