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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]
A rock formation nearby venerated as Lot's wife as a pillar of salt. The Monastery of St Lot is a Byzantine-period monastic site near the Dead Sea in Jordan, at the entrance to a natural cave, which Christians believed to have been the one where Lot and his daughters sought shelter after Sodom was destroyed (Genesis 19:24–25). [1]
Archive of Our Own (AO3) is a nonprofit open source repository for fanfiction and other fanworks contributed by users. The site was created in 2008 by the Organization for Transformative Works and went into open beta in 2009 and continues to be in beta. [2]
Often the background contains a small figure of Lot's wife, and in the distance, a burning city. [ 19 ] Along with the account of Tamar and Judah (Genesis 38:11–26), this is one instance of " sperm stealing " in the Bible, in which a woman seduces and has sex with her male relative under false pretenses in order to become pregnant.
Xing Li, a software developer from Alhambra, California, created FanFiction.Net in 1998. [3] Initially made by Xing Li as a school project, the site was created as a not-for-profit repository for fan-created stories that revolved around characters from popular literature, films, television, anime, and video games. [4]
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The beacon is locally known as "Lot's Wife", [2] after the Biblical woman turned into a pillar of salt. [3] The beacon has become a recognizable part of Baltimore's landscape, and one of the area's defining landmarks. [2] [1] The structure is featured on photographs and paintings of Baltimore.
The island is a basalt pillar with sheer sides, the only visible portion of a submarine volcanic caldera extending 2.6 kilometres (1.6 mi) south-east at an average depth of 240 metres (790 ft). The above sea-level portion measures approximately 84 metres east-west and 56 metres north-south, with a summit height of 99 metres (325 ft).