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The fierce, heavenly guard trampling a devil underfoot is thought to bring good luck to those who put their arms around his ankle, but an iron fence keeps most onlookers at bay.
A more famous scenic spot is Heavenly Lake (Tianchi), 120 km (75 miles) east of Urumqi, one of the prettiest mountain lakes in the world.
Yet nothingabout the frontier's fenced compoundssuggests the traveller en route elsewhereshould stop--even if stepping on the gascan't do much toward cancelling those pictures,the color of pain, a visual undersong ...Once coppergreen expanses of waterslide into view, though, no one could failto sense the difference in beingbelow sea level--air heavyin the ear, oxygen-rich, cool, dry,scented with desert, and holy enough.A hand dipped in water pondersthe viscous feel of minerals in solution,and little tumuli of salts and carbonatesbuild a submarine city sprawlingfor miles under the hammered-metal surface.On a shore hazed with distance, neat rowsof date palms identify themselveswith a green herringbone frond and ripen foodstuffs for, say, the heavenly banquet.Ritual ablution even so has coatedyour skin with a pale silt glove;and sea and desert are one.
Abraham, the first Jewish Patriarch, led his people here in search of “the land of milk and honey”; Jesus Christ was born, lived, ministered, and died here; and Mohammed, the founder of Islam, visited Jerusalem during his heavenly “Night Journey. ”
The southernmost monument is the Circular Altar (Yuan Qiu), an open platform dating from 1530 where silk was once burned as a sacrifice to the heavenly powers.
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