X Marks the Spot

I forget the other parts of the legend

Kaliya, in Hindu mythology, was the name of a poisonous Naga living in the Yamuna River, in Vrindavan. The water of the Yamuna for four leagues all around him boiled and bubbled with poison. No bird or beast could go near, and only one solitary Kadamba tree grew on the river bank.

The proper home of Kaliya was Ramanaka Dwipa, but he had been driven away from there by fear of Garuda, the foe of all serpents. Garuda had been cursed by a yogi dwelling at Vrindavan so that he could not come to Vrindavan without meeting his death. Therefore Kaliya chose Vrindavan as his residence, knowing it was the only place where Garuda could not come.

Once Krishna and herdboys were playing ball, and while playing Krishna climbed up the Kadamba tree and hung over the river bank, the ball fell into the river and Krishna jumped after it. Kaliya rose up with his hundred and ten hoods vomiting poison and wrapped himself around Krishna's body. Krishna became so huge that Kaliya had to release him. So Krishna saved himself from every attack, and when he saw the Brij folk were so much afraid he suddenly sprang into Kaliya's head and assumed the weight of the whole universe, and danced on the naga's heads, beating time with his feet. Then Kaliya began to die. But then the naga's wives came and prayed to Krishna with joined palms, worshipping Krishna and praying for their husband.

Kaliya, recognizing the greatness of Krishna, surrendered, promising he would not harass anybody. So Krishna pardoned him and then let him go free to leave the river and go to Ramanaka Dwipa. Some identify it as Fiji.

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Labyrinth





see where we are going here /z\

Baldock in Hertfordshire was a town founded by the Knights Templar and between 1199 and 1254 it was their English headquarters. The Hertford Mercury newspaper reported a warren of Templar tunnels beneath the town of Hertford, centering on Hertford Castle, where in 1309 four Templars from Temple Dinsley near Hitchin were imprisoned after their arrest by Edward II, who believed that they were holding a lost treasure.

Modern tradition has it that after the persecution began the Templars were forced to meet in caves, tunnels and cellars in Hertfordshire and elsewhere in southeast England. However, the brief and modest persecution in England is unlikely to have necessitated this, as remaining members could, even around 1310, met at the house or room of a friend not under arrest—which would have been most Templars.

But after lying undiscovered for at least 300 years, workmen accidentally stumbled upon Royston Cave (August 1742), hidden under a heavy millstone and a covering of soil. The cave's discovery created much excitement. Today, it still awes and inspires visitors who can see carvings depicting, among other images, knights, Saint George and Saint Catherine of Alexandria. Before the brief persecution, the Templars, assuming the cave was theirs, had no reason to hide below the ground, and they had wealth and access to stonemasons if they required religious carvings. It is thus suggested by storytellers and a few historians that Royston Cave is evidence 'fugitive' Templars continued to meet and worship in secret after the disbandment.

There have been some highly questionable claims made about Royston Cave and its history, including the suggestion that its Templar builders may, in effect, have been early Freemasons. However, no evidence of this link has been produced at this time

Legends surround the location of the Templars' first headquarters on the Temple Mount, which had been assigned to them by King Baldwin II of Jerusalem. They were in operation there for 75 years

The Well of Souls (Arabic: Bir el- Arweh, Bir el- Arwah or Bir al- Arwah ) — sometimes translated Pit of Souls, Cave of Spirits, or Well of Spirits — is a partly natural/partly man-made cave located inside the Foundation Stone under the Dome of the Rock shrine in Jerusalem. The name derives from a medieval Islamic legend that at this place the spirits of the dead can be heard awaiting Judgement Day at which time the Ka'aba in Mecca will come here and God's throne will be established on the Stone. (The name "Well of Souls" has also been applied more narrowly to a depression in the floor of this cave and to a hypothetical chamber that may exist beneath the floor. This possible chamber has been proposed as the past — or even present — repository of the Ark of the Covenant, but no compelling evidence exists for this and some even doubt the existence of a significant chamber underneath the cave floor.)

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

our templars placed labyrinths in their cathedrals and tunneled everywhere



Well of Souls


[link to en.wikipedia.org]

I am often perplexed as to how these legends came to be.

Why is this particular cave called 'Well of Souls'?

Why would they assume souls went there?

I am often perplexed as to how these legends came to be.

Why is this particular cave called 'Well of Souls'?

Why would they assume souls went there?

it seems because for thousands of years before this site become popular 2 things were common to all of our ancestors of our distant past

underground chambers prompted closeness to "god"
and
because of that
people placed dead people underground to be closer to "god"

this seems to be the root which flourishes today

Center as base field. Dimensional attractor and purveyor of base function.

Have you heard of the practice of leaving bodies to decay in the open air, very high on a purpose-built platform?

A friend was explaining to me some months ago a certain tribe that did this, and it worked remarkably well.

The bodies would be baked by the sun, and quickly consumed by vultures, all the while being out of 'eyeshot' by the villagers.

He remarked that this was the way he'd prefer to be 'buried'.

The Parsee (Zoroastrians) community disposes its dead by placing the bodies in a place known as the ‘Tower of Silence’. The tower is open to the sky as it has no roof. The corpse is subjected to the rays of the sun to decompose and vultures to eat it.

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"I teach you the overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?

"All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm. Once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape.

"Whoever is the wisest among you is also a mere conflict and cross between plant and ghost. But do I bid you become ghosts or plants?

"Behold, I teach you the overman! The overman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the overman shall be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poison-mixers are they, whether they know it or not. Despisers of life are they, decaying and poisoned themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so let them go!"

— Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Prologue, §3, trans. Walter Kaufmann

hey aether,, with regards to the golden age,, would it be plausible to retain echoes via the recent photon changes?,,

the simple remnants contained within torus reminding the all of previous endeavours,,

interest ingeniously no longer subjected too pertubation,, __

much love,,

'Zoroastrian' prompts the following for me

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

what i want to quote is banned it seems
read the bit starting Philosophy

Truth vs. Lie

Reminds me of the archetypical Satan vs archetypical God

yes
we discovered Zoroaster was one of the first to imagine what the meaning may be for the succession of planetary gods in relation to the ending of our golden age
the current story in his era was the previous god was driven away by the present god , our sun
and
since the new god`s arrival life had not been very happy for people
he formed the opinion there were two gods
the god we all knew whom dictated our lives in not a pleasant manner
and the hidden god
the nice god whom the god we all see had driven away
thus gnosis began to form in the minds of people
free will to discover the meaning of the god they see and the invisible god of eternity

In the last two minutes, a shirtless man passed my booth with 4 particular tattoos.

666 and 777 tattooed on either side of his chest. And Alpha and Omega on each arm.

I called him over and asked him what they meant to him...he didn't really say, just that the '777' was his 'first tattoo'.

Just now, My booth neighbor just returned wearing a hat which says on the back Triple 8.

888.

In the last two minutes, a shirtless man passed my booth with 4 particular tattoos.

666 and 777 tattooed on either side of his chest. And Alpha and Omega on each arm.

I called him over and asked him what they meant to him...he didn't really say, just that the '777' was his 'first tattoo'.

Just now, my booth neighbor returned wearing a hat which says on the back Triple 8.

888.

Str. No, not that; but another part of the story, which tells how the sun and the stars once rose in the west, and set in the east, and that the god reversed their motion, and gave them that which they now have as a testimony to the right of Atreus.

Y. Soc. Yes; there is that legend also.

Str. Again, we have been often told of the reign of Cronos.

Y. Soc. Yes, very often.

Str. Did you ever hear that the men of former times were earthborn, and not begotten of one another?

Y. Soc. Yes, that is another old tradition.

Str. All these stories, and ten thousand others which are still more wonderful, have a common origin; many of them have been lost in the lapse of ages, or are repeated only in a disconnected form; but the origin of them is what no one has told, and may as well be told now; for the tale is suited to throw light on the nature of the king.

Y. Soc. Very good; and I hope that you will give the whole story, and leave out nothing.

Str. Listen, then. There is a time when God himself guides and helps to roll the world in its course; and there is a time, on the completion of a certain cycle, when he lets go, and the world being a living creature, and having originally received intelligence from its author and creator turns about and by an inherent necessity revolves in the opposite direction.

Y. Soc. Why is that?

Str. Why, because only the most divine things of all remain ever unchanged and the same, and body is not included in this class. Heaven and the universe, as we have termed them, although they have been endowed by the Creator with many glories, partake of a bodily nature, and therefore cannot be entirely free from perturbation. But their motion is, as far as possible, single and in the same place, and of the same kind; and is therefore only subject to a reversal, which is the least alteration possible. For the lord of all moving things is alone able to move of himself; and to think that he moves them at one time in one direction and at another time in another is blasphemy. Hence we must not say that the world is either self-moved always, or all made to go round by God in two opposite courses; or that two Gods, having opposite purposes, make it move round. But as I have already said (and this is the only remaining alternative) the world is guided at one time by an external power which is divine and receives fresh life and immortality from the renewing hand of the Creator, and again, when let go, moves spontaneously, being set free at such a time as to have, during infinite cycles of years, a reverse movement: this is due to its perfect balance, to its vast size, and to the fact that it turns on the smallest pivot.

Y. Soc. Your account of the world seems to be very reasonable indeed.

Str. Let us now reflect and try to gather from what has been said the nature of the phenomenon which we affirmed to be the cause of all these wonders. It is this.

Y. Soc. What?

Str. The reversal which takes place from time to time of the motion of the universe.

Y. Soc. How is that the cause?

Str. Of all changes of the heavenly motions, we may consider this to be the greatest and most complete.

Y. Soc. I should imagine so.

Str. And it may be supposed to result in the greatest changes to the human beings who are the inhabitants of the world at the time.

Y. Soc. Such changes would naturally occur.

Str. And animals, as we know, survive with difficulty great and serious changes of many different kinds when they come upon them at once.

Y. Soc. Very true.

Str. Hence there necessarily occurs a great destruction of them, which extends also to-the life of man; few survivors of the race are left, and those who remain become the subjects of several novel and remarkable phenomena, and of one in particular, which takes place at the time when the transition is made to the cycle opposite to that in which we are now living.

Y. Soc. What is it?

Str. The life of all animals first came to a standstill, and the mortal nature ceased to be or look older, and was then reversed and grew young and delicate; the white locks of the aged darkened again, and the cheeks the bearded man became smooth, and recovered their former bloom; the bodies of youths in their prime grew softer and smaller, continually by day and night returning and becoming assimilated to the nature of a newly-born child in mind as well as body; in the succeeding stage they wasted away and wholly disappeared. And the bodies of those who died by violence at that time quickly passed through the like changes, and in a few days were no more seen.

Y. Soc. Then how, Stranger, were the animals created in those days; and in what way were they begotten of one another?

Shame he didn't have more to attribute to them off the cuff....

I cannot see myself getting piercings, but tattoos are another story

None yet, though.

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I have not heard this in a while

One of my favourites



[link to youtu.be]

Truth vs. Lie

Reminds me of the archetypical Satan vs archetypical God

I agree. I felt his effort at explaining, lacking.


I have no tattoos either. Nor piercing besides my ears.

When I was a teen I had both my navel and tongue pierced. My navel gave me constant issues and when I became a preschool teacher in college, I felt the tongue ring inappropriate.

So I removed it.

Forever.

:)