The holy places belong to God and no human can possess them or claim ownership. It also explains why shoes are left at the door of the mosques (and in other countries and faiths, the temples).
In a part of the world where slavery existed officially until very recently and still continues unofficially in some households, I understand how this might indeed be a grave offense.
I always thought it was because shoes touched the dirt and were unclean. One of the first things I learned was not to ever point the soles of my shoes at someone. Years ago, I moved to Saudi Arabia where I lived for sixteen years. In my last post I mentioned the symbolism of ownership and possession inherent in the shoes. I’m struck by how very old this story is and how long it retained the shoes and the bird as part of its bones. He goes in search of the owner and you know the rest of the story! The god Horus swoops down in his falcon form, flies off with her sandal, and drops it in the Pharaoh’s lap. As she washes clothes in the Nile, her slippers get wet and she puts them on the bank to dry. At the next feast day they give her so many chores she cannot attend the celebration. After her master gives her a pair of rose-gilded slippers, they dislike her even more. In this version Rhodopis is a slave girl who is teased unmercifully by the other servant girls for her fair complexion. Aesop used stories featuring animals to teach lessons in morality from her very beginning, Cinderella is doubly linked with the animal world. Interestingly, the story mentions Aesop of fable fame who lived 500 years earlier, indicating that the story probably originated much earlier than the 1 st century CE. 235) writings implying the Cinderella theme remained popular throughout antiquity. Another account of Rhodopis has survived in Aelian’s (175 – c. It comes to us from the Greek geographer Strabo (64/63 BCE – c. In this collage I return to the oldest known Cinderella story, Rhodopis.
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