With regard to history all and i mean all rabbinic comments are suspect.
Marbles left behind in a grave.
Marbles have not been particularly meaningful for me in the past so i was curious as to why they showed up in my meditation.
We are an ancestor friendly people.
Thanks for the comment.
We left the stones at the grave site.
I have found over 30 marbles over the past 6 or 7 years.
The pebble may go back 6000bc years to a community in turkey that left pebble size figures of mom and pop at the grave sites.
I have no idea what it means.
I would also like to do that.
It s nice to visit the grave and see the stones are still there and shows the person isn t forgotten.
Collecting marbles is a game and the person with the greatest skill is the winner.
Then i read the part in your story about how merle said that your marbles symbolized gathering insight and making progress towards your goals and everything clicked for me.
Winning at marble collecting requires practice and knowledge and is not child s play.
Additionally sometimes coins are left as a down payment for the deceased a promise to buy their comrade a drink in the afterlife.
Once i had not found a marble in quite a while and was mulling that over while walking my dog.
These maybe our source people for our spiritual customs.
No matter what the original intention of the coin leaver may be it seems clear that a coin left on a headstone is a symbol of remembrance and respect.
I find marbles too.