Marking the Center of a Sacred Space

Jacob ran away after screwing over his brother but that seems to be what happens and so here's a couple of representations classic representations the one on the right is William Blake it's one I particularly like you know. He assimilates God with the sun when with light right so that's quite a common mythological idea that that God is associated with light. Jacob rose up early in the morning and took the stone that he had put for his pillows and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it which is kind of offering. Now there's a transformation of sacrifice because until that point sacrifices have had been pretty concretized it was the burning of something whereas here all