Hello, Chris, Sterling, Martin A., and List, In Burke's "Cosmic Debris" you also find a few lines about the Paphos meteorite: "There were three temples of Aphrodite (Venus) in Asia Minor that were connected to a meteorite: the first was at Aphaca, a sacred place not far from Byblos, where the second was located, and the third was at Paphos on the nearby island of Cyprus. Aphaca was sacred because Aphrodite Urania fell at the place as 'fire from a star'. Aphrodite, both at Byblos and Paphos, was represented by an omphalos - that is, by an elongated cone within a temple of two columns (fig. 35b)".
BURKE J.G. (1986) Cosmic Debris, Meteorites in History, p. 221. Good night, Bernd ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
