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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 7859939, member: 83845&quot;]Great thread [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER] .&nbsp; I had the opportunity to visit Jaffa a few years ago and was surprised to find that it was so closely associated with Andromeda and the monster Ketos. In fact the rock you mention is near the harbor where, all the way back to ancient times, it was believed to be the rock that Andromeda was chained to.</p><p><br /></p><p>It’s hard to see the rock from my photo but if you zoom into the center you’ll see an Israeli flag that marks the rock.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1354671[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a Canaanite temple to Ashtoreth that the later Greeks associated as a temple to Andromeda.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1354664[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1354673[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It’s also worth saying that the city of Jaffa itself (a suburb of Tel Aviv now) is a delightful place to visit with lots of old medieval era architecture.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1354667[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1354672[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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