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Zoroastrian sources allege that this foreign “beaver land” was home to a fortress of Azi Dahaka. After revealing the Name of God to Zohra, a woman who became the planet Venus, two figures were chained upside down in a well in this city. Herodotus claimed that men of this city invoked the goddess Mylitta in a sacred prostitution custom. Before his self-immolation, (-5[1])Kalanus (15[1])prophesied that he (15[1])would meet (15[1])one figure again in this city. (15[2])It’s not in Egypt, but Euhemerus claimed that Zeus visited a king of this city named Belus, who discovered (*) astronomy. People learned sihr, or sorcery, in this city from the fallen angels Harut and Marut. A Greek language version of this city’s creation was told by the priest Berossus, while another narrative from this city begins “When on high.” (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, Alexander the Great died in what city, (10[1])the namesake of an empire that produced the Enuma Elish? ■END■ (10[2])

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