Sumhuram and 'the name of a small town' fortress pre-Islamic Arabia.
From its port ships laden with myrrh, and the City 'was part of the kingdom of Hadramaut, named after the mountains that lie between Yemen and Oman. He was contemporary with other exotic realms: Aksum, Qataban and Sheba, home of the Queen Bilqis ...
Just arrived within the walls of Sumhuram knew instinctively that I would find a magical place, the temple of Sin, god of the moon and of wisdom. Sin is one of the more 'old gods' in the world, revered by the Babylonians and Sumerians, and it' came through in the south of Oman Syria and Saudi west. I also knew that I would find Sumhuram some of the most 'remote traces of the worship of the serpent in Arabia.
From its port ships laden with myrrh, and the City 'was part of the kingdom of Hadramaut, named after the mountains that lie between Yemen and Oman. He was contemporary with other exotic realms: Aksum, Qataban and Sheba, home of the Queen Bilqis ...
Just arrived within the walls of Sumhuram knew instinctively that I would find a magical place, the temple of Sin, god of the moon and of wisdom. Sin is one of the more 'old gods' in the world, revered by the Babylonians and Sumerians, and it' came through in the south of Oman Syria and Saudi west. I also knew that I would find Sumhuram some of the most 'remote traces of the worship of the serpent in Arabia.
stone carved in the shape of a snake interesting things about the city of Sumhuram can be found here:
http://www.unipi.it/athenet/28/art_5 . htm
photos of the trip are collected in the album side, Dhofar, Southern Arabia
photos of the trip are collected in the album side, Dhofar, Southern Arabia
In the Temple of Sin
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