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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 6 (of 6)

Note 220 — THE LINGUIST-DAME, THE DUENNA AND THE KING’S SON.

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Amongst the Jews the Temple of Jerusalem was a facsimile of the original built by Jehovah in the lowest heaven or that of the Moon. For the same idea (doubtless a derivation from the Talmud) amongst the Moslems concerning the heavenly Ka’abah called Bayt al-Ma’múr (the Populated House) see my Pilgrimage iii. 186, et seq.

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