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If Gov. Cox wants rain, he might ask the other kind of Utahns to pray to their gods, too.
Private Eye
Somewhere, 3,000 years ago, a Greek farmer looked at his parched fields and prayed for rain. He prayed to Zeus. Around 500 years later, a Roman farmer looked at his own parched fields and prayed for rain. He prayed to Jupiter. In those same eras—in the Great Basin and Southwest Desert regions of what now comprise Utah, Arizona and New Mexico—a local farmer here looked at his own parched fields and prayed for rain, too.
We are not sure who he prayed to. That’s due in part to the written records for this region being sparse, the gaps filled by reliance on oral histories, rock art and figurines…
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