Mount Arafat, a holy hill near Meccah, is another place of pilgrimage, and its sacredness dates from even an earlier day than the laying of the first foundation of the Holy House at Meccah by Adam. When our first parents were cast out of their heavenly paradise, Adam lighted in Ceylon, and Eve in Arabia. Seeking each other, they met on Mount Arafat, or the Mount of Recognition, and therefore that spot of their reunion and new covenanting is a place of pilgrimage and worship for the faithful of all the world at this time.[469] Adam is said to have built a _madaa_, a place of prayer, on Mount Arafat, before he built the Kaʿbah.[470] The religion of Islam thus teaches its subjects to worship at the earliest threshold laid by our first parents in their primal covenanting, and all other religions recognize the importance of a similar idea. ----- Footnote 261: Darmesteter’s translation of _Zend Avesta_, in “Sacred Books of the East,” IV., 12, note. Footnote 262: De Coulange’s _Ancient City_, pp. 32–35, 46 f. Footnote 263: Compare Friedrich Delitzsch’s _Assyrisches Handwörterbuch_, s. v. “Êkallu.” Footnote 264: Wilkinson’s _Egyptians in the Times of the Pharaohs_, p. 141. Footnote 265: Erman’s _Life in Ancient Egypt_, p. 279 f. Footnote 266: Guhl and Koner’s _Life of the Greeks and Romans_, p. 297. Footnote 267: See, for example, _Odyssey_, VII., 80. Footnote 268: Perrot and Chipiez’s _Hist. of Art in Persia_, pp. 240–254. Footnote 269: Comp. Gen. 18 : 1–9, and Exod. 26 : 1–14; 39 : 32, etc. Footnote 270: Douglas’s _Society in China_, p. 343. Footnote 271: See Chamberlain’s _Things Japanese_, pp. 37, 226 f., 378; Griffis’s _Mikado’s Empire_, p. 90; Isabella Bird’s _Unbeaten Tracks in Japan_, II., 282. Footnote 272: Turner’s _Samoa_, pp. 18–20. Footnote 273: Maspero’s _Dawn of Civilization_, p. 703 f. Footnote 274: See Fergusson’s _Rude Stone Monuments_, pp. 100, 411–413. Footnote 275: Gen. 11 : 1–9. Footnote 276: See Mühlau and Volck’s Gesenius’s _Heb. und Aram. Handwörterbuch_ (12th ed.), s. v. “Babel;” also Schrader, in Richon’s _Dict. of Bib. Antiq._ (2d ed.). Footnote 277: See Brugsch’s _Egypt under the Pharaohs_, I., 63; also, Erman’s _Life in Ancient Egypt_, p. 58. Footnote 278: See Perrot and Chipiez’s _History of Art in Chal. and Assy._, II., 72. Footnote 279: See Count de Gobineau’s _Les Religions et les Philosophies dans l’Asie Centrale_; also Browne’s _Year among the Persians, and Traveller’s Narrative to Illustrate the Episode of the Bab_. Footnote 280: _Bibliothèque Orientale_, s. v. “Bab.” Footnote 281: John 10 : 9. Footnote 282: See, for example, Griffis’s _Mikado’s Empire_, p. 419; Isabella Bird’s _Unbeaten Tracks in Japan_, I., 295 f.; II., 367 f.; Gray’s _China_, I., 90; Fergusson’s _Rude Stone Monuments_, p. 413. Footnote 283: