The Patient Stone Author:Sadiq Hidayat, M. Batmanglij, Najmieh Batmanglij A retelling of the traditional Persian tale of how the patient stone helps a mistreated young girl achieve her true destiny. — The origins of the Stone with special powers go back at least four thousand years. There are examples as early as 2000 B.C. of both stones and cups with astronomical cuneiform texts giving the names of the constella... more »tions and believed to have been used both for physical and well as spiritual navigation. The symbolic meanings ascribed to the Cup/Stone include an astrolabe, a mirror, and a globe revealing the location of everything in the world; spiritually they are wisdom. soul and the quality of knowing oneself.« less