Sodom Destruction

myth:sodom_destruction

The cities of the plain, Sodom and Gomorrah, are destroyed in the Hebrew Bible by fire and brimstone falling from the sky for their wickedness. Some have speculatively linked the image to a natural airburst over the Bronze-Age Near East, though that claim is much disputed — a tale poised between the punishment of human sin and the memory of a fire from heaven. — Hebrew Bible (and contested geomythology)