November 25, 2010
A Thanksgiving Rick & Teel Story
My friends Rick and Teel Sale were in Rabat, Morocco, several decades ago, and while there they visited the gardens of Fort Chellah. The place is vast, and one may wander about in it, among Roman ruins, for a long time without seeing other people. But they came to the edge of a pond and found several naked young women sitting at its edge. There were many broken eggshells floating on the water. Teel stepped forward and asked a woman about the pond and the eggshells. The young beauty told her that she and her friends would be married soon, and the eggs were offerings to the eels–to ensure fertility.
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Offerings to the eels. I love that.
Cool! (And nothing like this ever happened to me in either of the Maltese Rabats.)