A 19th century engraving showing the Nile, Egypt, in flood, celebrated by Egyptians as an annual holiday and by the Coptic Church by ceremonially throwing a martyr's relic into the river, hence the name, the 'Martyr's Finger'. In mythology it signifies the shedding of Isis's tears of sorrow for her dead husband, Osiris

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