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29-SEP-2005

Şanlıurfa at ponds 3855

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Coming from the north and having just entered the park we are here at the Halil Rahman Gölu (Arab. Birket Ibrahim). Measuring 30 x 150 meters its waters flow from the Rohas-source (in antiquity Kallirhoë source). It had been prophesied to Nimrod, first king of the Chaldeans, founder of Babylon that someone was tyo be born that would bring down the gods of the realm. Zeliha hid in a cave when all pregnant women were driven together and gave birth to Abraham. At 16 Abraham tried to convince Nimrod of his errors, was caught and convicted to be burnt. The heat was such he was to be catapulted onto the pyre, but god turned to fire into a pool and the sparks into fish.

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