Nailed to stone instead of wood

This is a highly improbable sync, on a very specific and extremely unusual theme.

Yesterday, I read this in Hugh Nibley's Enoch the Prophet:

The Prometheus of Aeschylus takes place at the ends of the earth (line 1): no wholly human character appears in the play. Prometheus is being crucified for the crime of showing too much affection (philanthropia) for the human race and betraying the secrets of heaven to mortals. (Lines 28-38, 104ff.) The once heavenly Zeus has in his ambition become cruel and tyrannical; only Prometheus has the courage to resist and champion suffering mankind. The chorus enters in a spaceship -- an aerial chariot -- weeping and shedding their tears upon the mountains. (190ff.)

There was an endnote after the word crucified, which I checked -- because, as most people know, Prometheus's punishment was not crucifixion but being bound to a rock and having his liver eaten out by an eagle. Nibley's note reads:

His punishment differs from typical Roman crucifixion only in being on stone instead of wood. He is "raised up on high" (1.277), "nailed" (21, 56) sleepless in a standing position (32), and pierced with a spear-head (64).

Today, I read in Words of Them Liberated a scene in which the character Maunsh (who is apparently Moses) encounters a group of people whose feet have been nailed to logs:

Some hours passed before he heard the shrieks, and light darting upward, then shooting near passed; to follow, yet not direct, til he upon the scene a-stumbled, women and men, tied hand to tree, and feet into logs, nailed, howled, then changed to silence, fearing --

Like Prometheus, these unfortunates are both bound and "nailed."

Then --  I think, for as always the writing is not exactly clear -- the logs to which they are nailed turn out to be, in Nibley's words, "stone instead of wood":

And he brought a long nail from out a bag around his waist, and set its point on the foot-arch of Maunsh's neighbor rope wrapped; then with hammer as hand, Aule drove the spike direct into the stump -- no, a stone, unsplit.

"Call your Partner," and as directed the neighbor shrieked, then to see walk into the light circle, from out a shadow somehow, the Partner, and this one also, Ki-Abroam took by its paw-claw-arm's end, and while it stood willingly, tied the body to a tree high timbered, and straight, and then did he again set his spike, and drove it down, til the being was held, stone-bark;

Nibley emphasizes that Promethus is "raised up on high" and "in a standing position." Here, too, the crucified being "stood" and was affixed to "a tree high timbered."

In the paragraphs that follow, a monstrous bird of prey appears, which I think also somehow turns out to be made of stone or wood or something. Anyway, whatever the details, it syncs with the eagle that is so central to Prometheus's "crucifixion."

For me, nailing is always associated with Ninbad the Nailer, who is Martin Luther. In my recent dream "Joseph the Tirielist," Luther came up as "this guy who like hated logic." Nibley writes of Prometheus resisting Zeus and of the chorus arriving "in a spaceship" to comment on the result of that rebellion. Likewise, in the dream, Mark appeared in a low-flying airplane to ridicule Joseph, saying, "So after having put Luther in his place, he takes on God himself!"

In "A third reading of the Ninbad couplet," I included a picture of Luther, hammer in hand, nailing his theses to the wooden door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. In "A darker view of the Three of Pentacles," I included a picture of that card, with a remarkably similar layout to the Luther picture. On the left, a man hammering something into the door or wall -- wood or stone -- of a church. On the right, two others looking on.

In both of those posts, the imagery was connected with dark oaths and what the Book of Mormon calls "secret combinations."

In "The Simarils and the Three of Pentacles," I wrote that the central pillar on that card resembles a tree-become-stone:

The design, with its central pillar, also suggests a silver tree -- a Tree of Pentacles if you will -- with the three pips as its fruit.

Note added: Immediately after publishing this, with its reference to "an aerial chariot," I received an email with an article titled "Chinese company creates flying taxi prototype" (something someone wanted to use in an English class). In "Just how far did Hinbad and Rinbad travel?" -- referencing character from the same Ulysses-derived poem that gave us Ninbad the Nailer -- I associated Hinbad's "yellow car" with both a taxi and Elijah's flying chariot of fire.