 A Lot of Salt © 1997 Ginger Henry Geyer glazed porcelain with white gold 6 ¼" x 3 ¼" diameter Adaptation of Raphael's Abraham and Lot Fleeing from Sodom c. 1508 "When it rains it pours"....as in fire and brimstone, and Lot's wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt...a salt lick? So how did old Lot know she turned into a pillar of salt? He must've turned around too...or maybe he told her to look? Whatever, this story of sin and destruction is embedded in our collective consciousness as a warning against sodomy or sexuality itself. Interesting that in Ezekiel 16: 49, Sodom's sin is defined differently: "This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy."  |