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Fish cluster, waiting for people to feed them, on March 5, 2008, in Turkey's
southeastern city of Sanliurfa. According to both the Bible and Koran it is the
alleged birthp
lace of Abraham before his migration to Canaan, now Palestine. The
local Muslim legend differs from that of the other great monotheistic faiths in
that it includes the intervention of one vicious and cruel King, Nimrod, who had
Abraham launched from a catapult from the city's citadel to fall into a pile of
burning wood. However, God intervened, and turned the fire to water and the
faggots to fish, and today, the visitor to the town can visit the mosque complex
surrounding Abraham's Cave and The Pool of Sacred Fish around it. The
cruel ruler's giant slingshot is represented by two Corinthian columns still
standing atop the citadel. |
