Long Riders, Book of Mormon, and Horses

[Calm]

Can't get my heartbreakingly beautiful post to take, so please visit this link for an fun, interesting conversation with a horse expert with hints of good things to come:

http://mormanity.blogspot.com/2018/03/where-horses-can-take-you-and-my-quest.html

Horses and Religion...premiere article will be likely by a Mormon scholar.

[Calm]

Let us see if I can get this part at least to post:

That is a Quran verse as a horse....or a horse as a Quran verse

Edited April 6, 2018 by Calm

[Okrahomer]

Thank you for posting this.  The entire blog is fascinating.  I couldn't help but react to this particular bit from Mr. O'Reily's explanation of his Guild:

"With Members in forty-six countries, every major equestrian explorer alive today belongs to the Guild, including Hadji Shamsuddin of Afghanistan, who recently rode a thousand miles through that war-zone, Jean-Louis Gouraud of France, who rode 3,000 miles from Paris to Moscow, Tim Cope of Australia, who rode 6,000 miles from Mongolia to Hungary, Claudia Gottet of Switzerland, who rode 8,000 miles from Arabia to the Alps, Adnan Azzam of Syria, who rode 10,000 miles from Madrid to Mecca, and Vladimir Fissenko of Russia, who rode 19,000 miles from Patagonia to Alaska."

Good heavens!!!  These Long Riders obviously have a lot tougher "derrieres" than I do! 

[Calm]

If anyone can read Arabic and knows what the 'horse' is saying, I would greatly appreciate it.  Found the artist, Wissam Shawkat, but no info on the verse or meaning

[juliann]

That is quite a story! 

[Amulek]

Not sure that I have anything substantive to add with respect to horses and religion, in general, but I thought the story was really cool. Thanks for sharing that. 

 

[strappinglad]

I am reminded of the 4 horsemen/horses of the Apocalypse that closely tie horses to religion.