Obsidian, an extremely hard glass-like rock was God’s gift to early man. It was itself formed in the beginning by immense volcanic heat, pressure, and a swirling action, freezing solid instantly, now found in various sized nodules much like the sizes of our many fruits.
When broken, an extremely sharp but curved edge is always formed, becoming a ready implement, knife-sharp and used so many ways from piercing and cutting to scraping and forming.
With thought and practice even needles and hooks could be formed by chipping tiny curved chips and of course, spears, stone doggers, and arrowheads! One can readily see how both skill and brain and man could evolve from working with a substance. So now we’ve come from needles and knives and spears to atoms and elements, and such…
-D.M.
Posted on November 29th, 2007 by dogmaste
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