Why choose the House of Saud? Well, they have money and power, are into building big things that last, control a religion and too many world leaders avoid criticizing them.
First, their background:
The family goes way back – to 1446 – and family members are all descendants of Mani’ ibn Rabi’a al-Muraydi. Possibly (I need to research) they go back to the Qedarites who controlled trade networks millennia earlier.
More recently in the family tree, Muhammad bin Saud Al Muqrin was the founder of the first Saudi state, and his business was financing the commercial journeys of merchants.
Obviously on the money side of things, the current wealth of the Saudis is accidental. So even if I make a claim about them always being wealthy historically, the recent insane wealth is just good luck.
Without a doubt the House of Saud control Islam as much as the Pope controls Catholicism. They control Mecca and Medina, and the are spending a lot of money on Islamic propaganda. Wikipedia says:
One estimate is that during the reign of King Fahd (1982 to 2005), over $75 billion was spent in efforts to spread Wahhabi Islam. The money was used to establish 200 Islamic colleges, 210 Islamic centers, 1,500 mosques, and 2,000 schools for Muslim children in Muslim and Non-Muslim majority countries.
Arguably controlling a religion has been of prime importance throughout the entire history of the Watchers.
Mecca is of course a big deal in the Islamic world, and the focus of the pilgrimages is not as megalithic or mysterious as the pyramids, mounds and megaliths around the world.
Kaaba is a cube with the rough dimensions of 13m x 13m x 11m. It has been rebuilt a few times. It is definitely several millennia old archaeologically, but possibly extremely old – Wikipedia says:
Ibn Kathir, in his famous exegesis (tafsir) of the Quran, mentions two interpretations among the Muslims on the origin of the Kaaba. One is that the temple was a place of worship for mala’ikah angels before the creation of man. Later, a house of worship was built on the location and was lost during the flood in Nuh (Noah)’s time and was finally rebuilt by Ibrahim and Ismail as mentioned later in the Quran.
Yep angels. Aka Watchers. Aka the Mysterious Elders.
I haven’t found (yet) even a hint of something lying directly below the Kaaba, except possibly graves. This is worth a lot of investigation because if we are on the right track, they loved the underground and such sites usually began with something underground that was later built upon.
At the same site, but 20 metres east of the Kaaba is the ZamZam Well, a source of holy water, and an important part of the pilgrimage. It is not directly mentioned in the Koran, but according to tradition it dates back to the time of Abraham – so, very ancient.
One traditional Muslim account says:
Abd al-Muṭṭalib, grandfather of Muhammad, is responsible for the rediscovery of the well. He purportedly had a divine precognition about the well at some point in his life.
…Following ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib’s precognitions to dig, he is claimed to have found a number of artefacts: golden gazelle figurines, armour, and several specimens of a type of sword called as-Sayf al-Qalaʿī, lit. ‘Qalaʿī sword’. (Wikipedia)
The Kaaba’s primary purpose is to house the “black stone“, which is supposedly originated as a meteorite, and according to tradition dates back to Adam and Eve. Or perhaps, Garden of Eden, aka Atlantis. Given that we are speculating that the cataclysm that destroyed Atlantis was a meteorite bombardment, this is entirely fitting. Whether it is actually a meteorite relic is irrelevent, all that matters is that they thought it was. It symbolises the cataclysm.
The Black Stone was held in reverence well before Islam. It had long been associated with the Kaaba, which was built in the pre-Islamic period and was a site of pilgrimage of Nabataeans who visited the shrine once a year to perform their pilgrimage.
…The Nabateans emerged as a distinct civilization and political entity between the 4th and 2nd centuries BCE, with their kingdom centered around a loosely controlled trading network that brought considerable wealth and influence across the ancient world.
Fun fact, the black stone was actually kidnapped by a socialist utopian sect for two decades.