Posted on 05/30/2005 7:58:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Government officials arrived in the village soon after, demanding that the statue be handed over to a museum.
More evidence that these tragic events wash the wrong people out to sea.
Of course, we really could have used a big hill to stand on, but this is what we got.
Wonder if they could find Atlantis, too?
Who was this mysterious expert that arrived on the scene so quickly. Maybe he was a gift of the tsunami too.
BTW, tell them to be on the lookout for my wallet. I lost it on the Topsail Island, NC beach when I was in 7th grade, but somehow I feel it is still out there. Somewhere.
At least they didn't find a waterlogged Koran.
Ha ha! :)
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GGG PING -- fascinating find.
"At Mahabalipuram, when the tsunami fell back from the shore it took with it tonnes of sand from the beach, laying bare the forgotten ruins of a 7th-century temple and a rock covered with beautiful carvings of tigers, elephants and horses.
Archaeologists say that the new find indicates a “giant superstructure” that once stood on the beach, dating from the Pallava period from which Mahabalipuram’s other temples also date.
While important, however, they are causing nothing like the fuss of the other tantalising glimpse into the past that villagers here believe the tsunami showed them.
As the waters of the sea receded 500 metres from Mahabalipuram’s beachfront temple, mesmerised observers say that they saw very clearly on the ocean floor a series of pagoda-like temples apparently swallowed up by the sea in the past few hundred years. "
Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)
Well, wasn't Buddha (Guatama Sidhartha) born a Hindu?
:-)
Clues To Missing Pagodas Found
Times Of India | 7-6-2002 | Akshaya Mukul
Posted on 07/10/2002 4:51:08 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/714100/posts
New Pallava temple complex discovered in Mahabalipuram
Newz | 4/12/05
Posted on 04/13/2005 11:01:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1383375/posts
I lost a Seiko watch in the surf off Dauphin Island, AL several years ago. Several months later, I saw the identical watch in a display case of a local jewelry store. Coincidence...???
LOL!
Like the white buffalo and the flawless red heifer, another "cowinkidink" to get us smiling.
Nah, I was walking on the west end and found it in the sand, I hocked it, lol.
A more interesting story is one about the Roosevelt ring lost on the beach in Hawaii. Look it up, good story.
I get so tired of people, many of them people of faith themselves, mocking the simple faith of believers in other religions.
I'm not a believer in any organized religion, but I beleve that there is a healing power in prayer for many people. I wouldn't denigrate their beliefs as foolish or 'third-world fetishism', simply because I have firm convictions of my own.
The tsunami also tossed 40 million tons of titanium nodules on the coast of India.
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