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Lot's wife (center) turned into a pillar of salt during Sodom's destruction (Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493). The story appears to be based in part on a folk legend explaining a geographic feature. [3] A pillar of salt named "Lot's wife" is located near the Dead Sea at Mount Sodom in Israel. [4]
It is built of rubble stone into a tapered conical shape with a red-painted spherical metal finish on the top. [2] It constitutes part of a series of lighthouses and beacons dotted around the Irish coast to assist in marine navigation. The beacon is locally known as "Lot's Wife", [2] after the Biblical woman turned into a pillar of salt. [3]
Only Lot and his daughters were saved. Lot's wife disobeyed God's instruction not to look back, and was turned into a pillar of salt. The fiery red color is characteristic of John Martin's dramatic scenes of destruction. The swirling storm in heaven was also a frequent feature of his paintings.
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Alamy (3) Macaulay Culkin in 'Home Alone,' 1990; Tim Allen in 'The Santa Clause,' 1994; Jack Skellington in 'The Nightmare Before Christmas,' 1993
Lot in Sodom is a 1933 short, silent and experimental film directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber. Its plot is based on the Biblical tale of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah , with quotes from the Bible being used for all intertitles .
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