Stone of Jacob

When Jacob pillow of stone is called, rested on the head of the patriarch Jacob, when he spent the night on the run from his twin brother Esau in Haran. He dreamed of the Jacob's ladder and God gave him in a dream the promise of his descendants numerous, and the country to make it their own. The corresponding passage in the Bible is:

Accordingly, the description is in the stone a betyl (which is the Greek equivalent of the Semitic Beth- El). It is usually conical cult stones that often have holes or notches. Sometimes they form a stylized face (especially the Bätyle the Nabataeans ).

The biblical Beth- El is now located near the Palestinian village in the West Bank Baitin.

According to a Scottish legend of the Stone of Destiny, on which Scottish kings were crowned, and the long time is a part of the coronation chair of the kings of England in Westminster Abbey, was identical to the Jacob pillow.

The Jacob pillow also appears in the center of Carl Amery's novel " The King Project", in which the objective is to reach using one of Leonardo da Vinci invented a time machine into the possession of the authentic Jacob cushion, as the Stone of Destiny, on which according to tradition, the legitimate British kings to be crowned, a manifest forgery was, and thus legitimizing a Jacobite succession.