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Description: After a winter of heavy snow, meltwater percolating through Mount Lebanon emerges in a torrent from the grotto of Afqa, a village whose name derives from ancient words meaning 'the source.'nnThe source of the River Adonis was said to be the scene of the life and death of its mythical namesake, a god of desire, fertility, vegetation, birth and rebirth. Born himself of a Myrrh tree, Adonis was raised by the goddess Astarte, or Aphrodite as the Greeks came to know her. Taken by his beauty, she took
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