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525:"...the miserable village which still bears the name of Afqa at the head of the wild, romantic, wooded gorge of the Adonis. The hamlet stands among groves of noble walnut trees on the brink of the lyn. A little way off the river rushes from a cavern at the foot of a mighty amphitheater of towering cliffs to plunge in a series of cascades into the awful depths of the glen. The deeper it descends, the ranker and denser grows the vegetation, which, sprouting from the crannies and fissures of the rocks, spreads a green veil over the roaring or murmuring stream in the tremendous chasm below. There is something delicious, almost intoxicating, in the freshness of these tumbling waters, in the sweetness and purity of the mountain air, in the vivid green of the vegetation. 3006: 559: 630:. He writes that he mastered the secret rites of Adonis at the temple at Afqa and that the locals there asserted that the legend about Adonis was true and occurred in their country. Lucian describes the rites, annually performed, that involved the beating of breasts and wailing, and the "perform their secret ritual amid signs of mourning through the whole countryside. When they have finished their mourning and wailing, they sacrifice in the first place to Adonis, as to one who has departed this life: after this they allege that he is alive again, and exhibit his effigy to the sky." 1461: 163: 55: 156: 137: 1905: 1505: 1994: 1433: 71: 618:"'This river, my friend and guest, passes through the Libanus: now this Libanus abounds in the red earth. The violent winds which blow regularly on those days bring down into the river a quantity of earth resembling vermilion. It is this earth that turns the river to red. And thus the change in the river's colour is due, not to blood as they affirm, but to the nature of the soil.' This was the story of the man of 1447: 486:, wrote that the emperor ordered to demolish the Temple. Frazer attributes its construction to the legendary forebear of King Cinyras, who was said to have founded a sanctuary for Aphrodite (i.e. Astarte). Reconstructed on a grander scale in Hellenistic times, then destroyed by the Emperor Constantine the Great in the fourth century, it was partially rebuilt by the later fourth-century emperor, 478:
The waterfall at Afqa is the source for the River Adonis and is located on a 600-foot (180 m) bluff that forms an immense natural amphitheater. The river emerges from a large limestone cave in the cliff wall which stores and channels water from the melted snow of the mountains before releasing
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or "the Great Lady". In the early 20th century, strips of white cloth were still being attached to the ancient fig that shadows the source, and Metawalis and Christians alike were bringing the sick to be cured at "the abode of Sa’īdat Afkā, i.e. a feminine spirit of the same name as the place. Her
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tax records, which did not differentiate different Muslim groups from each other, indicate Afqa, or "Ifqi", had 20 Muslim households and six bachelors in 1523, 38 Muslim households and five bachelors in 1530, and 25 Muslim households and 15 bachelors in 1543.
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to grow jealous. Ares sent a vicious boar to kill Adonis. At the pool at the foot of the falls of Afqa, Adonis bled to death from a deep wound in the groin. Aphrodite despaired at his death and out of pity for her the gods allowed Adonis to ascend from
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reported in 1919, with a photograph of the cloth-hung fig tree. W. F. Albright noted this survival of this "female saint" as the most remarkable among "very few direct reflections of paganism in the names and legends of modern
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husband built this temple. He was killed by a wild beast, and she searched among the mountains until she found his mangled body. This is evidently a modified view of the ancient myth of Astarte and Adonis,"
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it into springs and streams below. At Afqa, several watery threads flow from the cave to form numerous cataracts, a scene of great beauty. The cave has over two miles (three km) of known passageways inside.
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camped at the site in 1852, merely remarking on its "shapeless ruins" and the difficulty of transport of two massive columns of Syenite granite. Frazer describes the village at Afqa in his 1922 book,
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does not mean that it was not also at a great distance in a cosmic 'never never land'". The "cultic geography" of Adonis, including Afqa, is inspected by Brigitte Soyez in the opening section of
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Each spring at Afqa, the melting snows flood the river, bringing a reddish mud into the stream from the steep mountain slopes. The red stain can be seen feeding into the river and far out to the
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bloom. Known as Adonis' flowers, according to legend, they spring from his blood, spilled as he lay dying beneath the trees at Afqa, and return each year in remembrance.
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Describing the recently recovered ancient name for another source, issuing from a cave, which irrigated the Palmyrene oasis, Jean Starcky remarked on the
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of ca. 1200 BCE, described as "at the source of the rivers, amid the fountains of the deeps", with this famous source of the river Adonis and
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The localized particularity of Roman mountain sanctuaries in northern Lebanon was noted in Daniel Kercker and Willy Zschietzchmann,
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A great and ancient temple is located here, where the goddess Aphrodite was worshipped. Eusebius, the biographer of emperor
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aqueduct that carried the waters of the River Adonis to the inhabitants of ancient Byblos are also located here.
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Lucian also describes practices by the Byblians of worship which some told him centered not on Adonis, but
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on the other side of the mountain, which Pope asserted was closely associated with it in legend.
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was born and died at the foot of the falls in Afqa. The ruins of the celebrated temple of
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Edward Robinson and Eli Smith, "Outlines of a Journey in Palestine in 1852"
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granite still mark the site, on a terrace facing the source of the river.
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Also in the fertile valley surrounding the river, millions of scarlet
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The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research in Jerusalem
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Paton, "Survivals of primitive religion in modern Palestine"
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W. F. Albright (September 1956). "El in the Ugaritic Texts".
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Albright, "Islam and the Religions of the Ancient Orient"
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In classical Greek mythology, Afqa is associated with the
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The Ottoman Province of Damascus in the Sixteenth Century
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who was transformed into a tree that bears her name (see:
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Marvin H. Pope (Yale University) identified the home of
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further attribute the temple at Afqa to the honouring of
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), Aphaca
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Scheffel, Richard L.; Wernet, Susan J., eds. (1980).
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Map of Lebanon and geographical coordinates for Afqa
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The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1788
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Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London
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Bradt Travel Guides. pp. 148–. 3351:UNESCO World Heritage Sites Proposed 3309:Saint George Greek Orthodox Cathedral 2941:Roman archaeological sites in Lebanon 2914: 1964: 1476: 1110:from the original on 14 December 2007 968: 943: 928:. SpeleoPhilately.com. Archived from 702: 689:was one of five bridges destroyed by 422:). Afqa is aligned centrally between 1128:J. G. R. Forlong (1 February 2003). 1073:from the original on 24 October 2007 985:from the original on 4 November 2007 325:. Its inhabitants are predominantly 3376:Populated places in Byblos District 1339: 1251:Pope, "El in the Ugaritic Texts", ( 1061:Sir Richard Francis Burton (1885). 996: 887: 799: 672: 290: 115:9.34 km (3.61 sq mi) 13: 3381:Shia Muslim communities in Lebanon 1903: 655:, where vows are addressed to the 30:Village in Keserwan-Jbeil, Lebanon 14: 3437: 3228:Roman temple to Venus in Yammoune 1380: 953:. Travel Web Site. 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Index

Palmyra
Efqa Spring
Afka From Qartaba
Lebanon
Governorate
Keserwan-Jbeil
District
Byblos District

Grotto
Afqa is located in Lebanon
Beirut
Byblos District
34°04′09″N 35°53′10″E / 34.069167°N 35.886111°E / 34.069167; 35.886111
Roman
Ancient Greece
Phoenicia
Arabic
village
municipality
Byblos District
Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate
Beirut
Lebanon
hectares
Shia Muslims
Ancient Greek
Lebanon
Byblos
Qartaba

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