It is often stated that Scipio Africanus sowed this substance into the soil of the destroyed city of Carthage.
In the Prose Edda, the ship of Mysing sinks when an enormous amount of this substance is produced by the maidservants Fenja and Menja. A valley named for this substance is where eighteen thousand Edomites are slain by David in the Bible. Paracelsus represented this material using a circle with a horizontal line through its diameter, and grouped it with mercury and sulfur as one of the tria prima. In Roman mythology, Neptune's wife is named for this substance. This material is infused into the block of (*) ice licked by the cow Audhumla. This material must be thrown behind one's left shoulder to ward off evil if a container of it is knocked over, as Judas Iscariot does in da Vinci's The Last Supper. It is often stated that Scipio Africanus sowed this substance into the soil of the destroyed city of Carthage. For 10 points, identify this substance into which Lot's wife is transformed as she flees the city of Sodom.
In the Prose Edda, the ship of Mysing sinks when an enormous amount of this substance is produced by the maidservants Fenja and Menja.
salt