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16-10-2007, 02:50 PM
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Dear all
This article is copied from Aramco website. The famous Saudi oil company
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/199206/oman.s.unfailing.springs..htm
The story of the mentioned Falaj of Dann is very famous
Many people visted the falaj and they have seen the sitiation in reality
The story is also published in Arabic in here
http://albanah.net/vb/showthread.php?t=276
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Oman's "Unfailing Springs"
Written and photographed by Lynn Teo Simarski
Additional photographs by Robert Azzi
Aflaj also play a role in local legend. One spring-fed falaj called Ma'awil, near Ibri in the interior, is wreathed in myth because of its intermittent flow.
Local belief holds that long ago, a girl of the Maqrashi tribe descended to the falaj to collect water, and disappeared.
Legend maintains that she was taken by the head of the jinn, who to this day releases water only when her tribesmen visit the falaj, to compensate them for the kidnaping of one of their daughters.
Hydrogeologists, more prosaically, attribute the spring's stops and starts to a natural siphon effect, which allows the spring to fill only under certain conditions
Washington-based free-lance writer and photographer Lynn Teo Simarski specializes in Middle Eastern topics. She wrote on Oman's forts in an earlier issue ofAramco World
This article appeared on pages 26-31 of the November/December 1992 print edition of Saudi Aramco World
Dear all
This article is copied from Aramco website. The famous Saudi oil company
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/199206/oman.s.unfailing.springs..htm
The story of the mentioned Falaj of Dann is very famous
Many people visted the falaj and they have seen the sitiation in reality
The story is also published in Arabic in here
http://albanah.net/vb/showthread.php?t=276
-------------------------------------------------
Oman's "Unfailing Springs"
Written and photographed by Lynn Teo Simarski
Additional photographs by Robert Azzi
Aflaj also play a role in local legend. One spring-fed falaj called Ma'awil, near Ibri in the interior, is wreathed in myth because of its intermittent flow.
Local belief holds that long ago, a girl of the Maqrashi tribe descended to the falaj to collect water, and disappeared.
Legend maintains that she was taken by the head of the jinn, who to this day releases water only when her tribesmen visit the falaj, to compensate them for the kidnaping of one of their daughters.
Hydrogeologists, more prosaically, attribute the spring's stops and starts to a natural siphon effect, which allows the spring to fill only under certain conditions
Washington-based free-lance writer and photographer Lynn Teo Simarski specializes in Middle Eastern topics. She wrote on Oman's forts in an earlier issue ofAramco World
This article appeared on pages 26-31 of the November/December 1992 print edition of Saudi Aramco World