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A red buoy, Today some 200 yards west of -300 metres from the point where the big ships now dock at PatmosSkala, marks in the dock itself, exists a red (or orange) buoy to mark the spot where supposedly it all happened. Just , just beneath the surface , is a submerged rock , some people say , is man-shaped: Kynops, and represents the petrified in mid-dive by Stmagician. John 1 The locals share the story that during World War II,900 years agothe Italians sent divers down to dynamite the rock. After several attempts with an extraordinary amount of explosives nothing would have any affect. Fisherman say that any Octopus that is caught near the rock are completely inedible.
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The '''Rock of Kynops''' refers to a strange looking rock jutting out of the sea in Petra Bay believed to be the petrified body of a satanical wizard by the name of Kynops destroyed during spiritual combat between Kynops and St. [[Apostle John|John the Theologian]]. The story of this combat is attributed to the saint's disciple, [[Prochorus]], and contained in an ancient manuscript still kept hidden in the [[monastery]] on [[Patmos]] island.
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