Oh, and BTW. If you wonder why the heck fire worship took hold in the neighborhood, in the immediate north of Iran along the Caspian shore it shares is Azerbaijan. In some regions like Baku, the gas supplies are so close to the surface that the rocks are permanently engulfed in flame.

If one briefly burning bush sent Moses off on a 40 year bender ( and its not as though burning shrubbery is a rarity. Ask our Aussie and Californian members. ) imagine what rocks that burn for centuries might do?

Dante