Showing posts with label ogres. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ogres. Show all posts

Sunday, 10 August 2014

Warding off "evil" spirits (sutra)

Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; G.P. Malalasekera (DN 32)
Covered in oil and ash with horns in San Martin Tilcajete, March 2011. The paint is used to ward off evil spirits before Lent instead of protective chants (Jorge Luis Plata/Reuters).

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VULTURE'S PEAK, ancient India - The Four Great Space Kings having set a guard over the four quarters of the Earth's sky, visited the Buddha, saluted him, and sat down respectfully to one side with hosts of ogres (yakkhas).

King Vessavana told the Buddha that the ogres did not, for the most part, believe in the Buddha for the reason that they did not find it pleasant or agreeable to abstain from the things which he declared to be "evil" -- such as the taking of life, stealing, sexual misconduct, false speech, intoxication, and so on.
 
And in order that the Buddha's disciples, retreating to lonesome and remote parts of the forest where the ogres dwell, might find protection from them, King Vessavana suggested that the Buddha might learn the ātānātiya word-rune (rakkha).

The "Four Great Kings" guard the skies of Earth as Sakka's regents in the deva world.
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The Buddha consenting by his silence, Vessavana proceeded to recite it. It opens with a salutation to the seven buddhas, beginning with Vipassī Buddha. The remainder contains a list of the devas and other superhuman beings, the Four Great Kings heading the list, who are described at length. Forty-one other devas are mentioned as a kind of appendix or afterthought, all mentioned one after another with no attempt at group division and without any details, in what are, apparently, mnemonic doggerels.
 
A part of the Mahāsamaya Sutra (Sections 10-20) appears to be an improved and enlarged edition of this list of bare names.

The Buddha learned the word-rune (spell, mantra) and taught it to the monastics (wandering ascetics, recluses, hermits, Buddhist monks and nuns).
 
The Atānātiya Sutra is now regarded as a protective chant, and its influence is said to pervade a hundred million world systems (VibhA.430). And DA.iii.969 gives a long description of the ritual followed when reciting it.
 
In Buddhist Sri Lanka, for instance, it is recited with great fervor at the conclusion of ceremonies, particularly in times of illness, in order to ward off evil spirits.
 
It is included in the list of protections found in the Questions of King Milinda (p.151). On the importance of this sutra in the history of India, see Rhys Davids, Buddhist India (pp.219-37).

Thursday, 21 November 2013

Yeti rapes woman in China = hybrid (video)

Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; Epic Wildlife (Twitter) (SPECULATION)

http://tiny.cc/2byriw
Zhangjiajie, China (bbs.chinadaily.com.cn)
Our "monster" quest continues. In the following incredible account, a "Bigfoot (Chinese Yeren)-human hybrid man" was found in China.

Footage of the human-hybrid was taken in Sichuan Province. It is being described as the "Chinese Hybrid Man" or "Yeren Ape Man." His mother's account of how he came to be born is the incredible part.

The story goes that the boy's mother claimed that she was kidnapped by a Yeren (Yeti), the Chinese "Wildman" or Chinese version of Bigfoot. (See video below).

Shanxi (BreenJones/flickr)
He allegedly raped her repeatedly before she managed to escape back to her village.

Nine months later she gave birth to a strange boy who grew to be abnormally large and apelike, displaying more features we attribute to prehistoric (paleolithic) humans rather than modern ones.
 
Although he was never able to speak a language, he gained a minimal understanding of what people were trying to say to him. He lived to be 33 years old. But because he was kept a secret and hidden in a small village, not much is known about him.

Munn and Gigantopithecus
Is he a "bastard son of a Bigfoot creature"? One alternative explanation is that he was born with microcephaly (small brain), which is a neurodevelopmental disorder that causes abnormal head growth, poor brain function, and a diminished life expectancy. Skeptics who advance this explanation go on to suggest that the mother must have been ashamed of having a retarded, malformed baby and made up the story about being raped by a Bigfoot to explain the anomaly.

The problem with this explanation, however, is that it does not explain the size of this hybrid looking man: No previous case of microcephaly has ever been very tall.
 
In addition, he displays many ape-like characteristics such as an ape-like jaw, extremely long and gangly arms, and lacks a human neck. Is he half human, half animal (ape)? Is the human hybrid ape man found in China real or fake?

(Bigfoot Evidence)
 
There is mounting evidence of a bipedal creature in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range. Bigfoot researchers trek in to investigate Native American stories and petroglyphs of a family of hair-covered man-beasts. They examine recently found footprint evidence and a compelling 1991 video of a supposed Bigfoot encounter at Mono Lake, east of Yosemite National Park.

Sasquatch (Sásq'ets, a catchall name for the ape-like creature) is believed to inhabit forests of the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It is described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid.
 
These creatures range from 6-10 feet (2-3 m) tall, weighing in excess of 500 pounds (230 kg), and are covered in dark brown, reddish, or white hair. Eye witnesses describe large eyes, pronounced brow ridges, and a low-set forehead. The top of the head is described as rounded and crested, similar to the sagittal crest of the male gorilla. A strong, unpleasant odor is reported. Enormous footprints have been confirmed around the world, some as large as 24 inches (60 cm) long and 8 inches (20 cm) wide. Most casts have five toes -- like all known apes -- some two to six. Some have also contained claw marks, making it likely that a portion came from known animals such as bears, which have five toes and claws. They are thought to be omnivorous and nocturnal.

Maybe Yeren is a Neanderthal as sought in adjacent Russia and Siberia. The 45 minute special below follows the search for Bigfoot (Russian Almasty, Mongolian Almas):

(TBG) "Russian Bigfoot" - Do archaic humans still walk the Earth? The Almas, Almasty, "Man of the Forest," Wildman, Yeti... something is out there, and Adam Davies is searching for them.

Sunday, 17 November 2013

Tibetan Yeti is real: Oxford geneticist (video)


(Bigfoot Evidence) Documentary: The Government Cover-Up of Bigfoot and Cryptids

Yeti Mystery Solved says Geneticist
Yeti hand (factfictionandconjecture.ca)
An Oxford University geneticist says he has solved the mystery of the Tibetan snow creature called Yeti (“Abominable Snowman”). 

For hundreds of years the Yeti [yakshini, yakṣī, यक्षी, “ogre”] legend focuses on an ape like creature that hides in the Himalayas striking out at hunters leaving huge foot prints behind in its violent wake. Once again science stands on the verge of dispelling myth as genetic investigators present some compelling DNA evidence.
 
Has the Yeti mystery finally been solved?
Geneticist Bryan Sykes’ DNA testing is part of the Oxford-Lausanne Collateral Hominid Project (Wolfson College), which is also looking for genetic evidence of other mysterious creatures like Sasquatch in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and the Almasty in Russia. People from all over the world submitted samples to the project along with detailed descriptions in response to Prof. Sykes’ global call for said samples.
 
Yeti scalp, Nepalese ritual artifact (wiki)
Prof. Sykes studied DNA from a pair of unidentified animals killed in the Himalayas” over the course of the last 40 or so years.

The samples included a single hair and a mummified jawbone. The samples were compared to a database of known animal DNA and produced some eye-opening results. More
  • Bigfoot is a kind of "human," DNA shows The study was conducted by a team of experts in genetics, forensics, imaging, and pathology, led by Dr. Melba S. Ketchum of Nacogdoches, TX. In response to recent interest in the study, Dr. Ketchum can confirm that her team...
  • Bigfoot DNA analysis completed (audio) Coast to Coast welcomed back Dr. Melba S. Ketchum (DNAdiagnostics.com), the professional geneticist who sequenced Bigfoot's DNA from hair and flesh samples. Host George Knapp discussed the official release...
  • View from the Top of the World (film) Those who search will find a great deal of plausible evidence, such as that of Dr. Ketchum's recent DNA analysis and more DNA data being confirmed by a group that will be much more careful how they release the information...
(ABC News) Professor Bryan Sykes of Oxford tested hair samples from various sightings and makes a startling claim. (What can anyone ever expect from the mainstream media and the gatekeepers in "respectable" academia except more cover ups and diversions like this?)
  • 5 Strange Bigfoot Theories (videos) While Bigfoot seems like a North American phenomenon, there are tales of giant "wildmen" around the world -- from the Tibetan Yeti to the Australian Yowie and Siberia's Chunchunya [and Indonesian fossil evidence]. And the Almas:
The Almas (cryptozoology)
Bill Munns/Gigantopithecus
The Almas (Mongolian Алмас, Bulgarian Алмас, Chechen Алмазы, Turkish Albıs), Mongolian for "wild man," is a purported cryptozoological species of hominid reputed to inhabit the Caucasus and Pamir Mountains of central Asia, and the Altai Mountains of southern Mongolia (Living Ape-Men: The Almas of Central Asia).
 
The creature is not yet officially recognized and cataloged by science. Mainstream scientists generally reject even the possibility that such mega-fauna cryptids can exist, due in part to the improbable numbers necessary thought to maintain a breeding population, and because climate and food supply issues make their survival in reported habitats unlikely (Bengt Sjögren, Berömda vidunder, Settern, 1980).
 
1. Gorilla 2. Australopithecus 3. Homo erectus 4. Neanderthal 5. Steinheim Skull 6. Human
 
Almas is a singular word in Mongolian; the properly formed Turkic plural would be almaslar. As is typical of similar legendary creatures (Bigfoot, Bigfoots) throughout Central Asia, Russia, Pakistan, and the Caucasus, the Almas is generally considered to be more akin to "wild people" in appearance and habits than to apes (in contrast to the Yeti of the Himalayas).

Male and female (Neanderthal Museum)
Almases are typically described as human-like bipedal animals, between five and six and a half feet tall, their bodies covered with reddish-brown hair, with anthropomorphic facial features including a pronounced browridge, flat nose, and a weak chin (Michael Newton, "Almas/Almasti," Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology: A Global Guide, 2005. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 19). Many cryptozoologists believe there is a similarity between these descriptions and modern reconstructions of how Neanderthals might have appeared. More

(Monster Quest) "The Abominable Snowman" sought in Nepal, the Himalayas, Tibet, India's Himalchal Pradesh and Sikkim, Bhutan, China, and Mongolia...
(Esoteric Haven) Some are now no ordinary bears but Ice Age hybrids

    Tuesday, 29 October 2013

    Our True Ghost Story (video)

    Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Seven, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly HALLOWEEN TEAM

    (Dave Symes) Now, kids, obey the nice police. They're only here to protect you from expressing yourselves and saying things you might regret later. This is just like the Battle at Kruger:

    (Jason Schlosberg) Now, water buffs, obey the nice lions.
    They're only here to eat you alive.

    Gary Holt, Tom, Kerry King, Paul (LAW)
    One strange (i.e., paranormal) thing did happen at the Slayer concert! It sounds silly to recount it given that one might discuss the societal or interpersonal freak show that most any concert in Hollywood becomes.

    Standing, watching the show from the pit -- a sweaty, chaotic mass of humanity pressing in with everyone blocking the view by throwing up "Hang Ten" hand signs -- it was mesmerizing to watch it for a few seconds from the vantage point of a well placed little screen.

    The person in front was videotaping through a good quality cellphone with a good size screen. He was holding it up above the fray, so by looking up one had a good vantage point. He was focusing it on Kerry King during a quick guitar solo. We very clearly saw Jeff Hanneman playing guitar with his unmistakeable long blond hair.
     
    Not having previously thought much about who else was now playing guitar on tour with Slayer, we were standing stage right in front of the deafening speakers, 20 feet or so away from the stage where the crush of fans is not all-consuming.

    Kerry King (right) and Jeff Hanneman (Jesse Davis biography-tribute video, see below)
    Hey, Jeff, I've been waiting. - Just one more solo, Mara! (namedtranslation.co.uk)
     
    Now when the camera came down, we saw Kerry King playing guitar on our right. We rushed forward to figure out who was stage left. Were there five people up there? No. The Hanneman-replacement (Gary Holt) was on his own side of the stage, and he doesn't look anything like Hanneman. We searched and searched the stage from various angles in case someone had fallen back obstructed by the stacks playing rhythm guitar in addition to the duo, who were not interacting but just keeping to their sides.

    When the camera and arm came down, it had clearly been pointing at a bald, head-tattooed Kerry King, not a long-haired blond guitarist. They look nothing alike. We assumed that who had been in the frame must have just stepped aside, but no. The sheen of Hanneman's hair magnified and amplified, glowing as luminescent pixels on the screen, left an even greater impression, in jarring contrast to King's baldness.
    It is due to karma -- actions willed, carried out, and accumulated -- that one lives.

    Flesh eating bacteria destroy a limb (wiki)
    Then it dawned on us whose image had been on that camera screen -- that was DEAD Jeff Hanneman! (Hanneman died this year as a result of  liver failure due to years of drug and alcohol abuse and perhaps demons after a mysterious spider bite that led to him contracting a crippling case of necrotizing fasciitis, "flesh-eating disease," which almost led to the amputation of his right arm). His story is told here:

    Jeff Hanneman (1964-2013) memorial tribute by Jesse Davis

    Did the image appear as a transient interaction between an electronic device and our eyes, the camera capturing and transducing a haint, making visible for a moment what the unaided eye cannot normally see? Or was their a documented intersection of planes: Did Hanneman's image appear on the digital video that person's camera was taking? There was no one on stage who looked anything like Hanneman, certainly no one wielding a guitar. We'll have to go through our messy, poorly lit photos and footage in search of paranormal artifacts.
    Edgar Cayce, Sleeping Prophet
    But if the person who was filming finds Hanneman on it, please contact us! (Leave a comment in the Comments section with a way to contact you). Up the street at the Magic Castle, private members conduct a seance trying to contact the Great Houdini. It's been almost a century, and they have not reported any success. Here along Sunset Blvd., where a bicyclist once died right in front of the Palladium just before a Slayer show, having been driving without a helmet and being side swiped by a slow moving semi truck (a head is no match for asphalt), a deceased band member steps in, occupies, possesses his erstwhile friend and musical partner for a moment of Hollywood glory on stage together again. 

    This really happened, as hokey as it may sound. But "see is believing," and we know what we saw. Without digital evidence there is no sense in others believing. So readers can take comfort in that. Halloween is just a few days away. The Moon is round. And The Veil is thinning in this hemisphere, just as it was a few months ago for Obon in Asia on the other side of the planet. This thinning between the dimensions, the Planes of Existence (as outlined in Buddhist cosmology), allows for the interaction of the worlds here on Earth. We coexist with animals and space-devas ("shining ones") and space-others [asuras, nagas, gandharvas: celestial titans/Annunaki (as explained by Michael "Forbidden Archeologist" Cremo), reptilians/Draconians, and angelic messenger-musicians].

    Friday, 20 September 2013

    "Mara" (Buddhist lore) - Shakti Dance Company

    Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Shakti Dance Co., Los Angeles Weekly (laweekly.com)

    Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013: 8:00 p.m. at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre
     
    The John Anson Ford Amphitheatre
    According to Buddhist legend, the "demon" Mara (the personification of Death) tried unsuccessfully to seduce and dissuade Siddhartha from becoming the Buddha (Enlightened One). 
     
    So he continues to audaciously entice and distract humans from their own spiritual quest with worldly pleasures, keeping them from finding true inner freedom and the "Deathless" (nirvana).
     
    Mara attacks Siddhartha under Bodhi tree
    That demon’s demon is the focus of bharata natyam choreographer Mythili Prakash and the dancers of Shakti Dance Company and in their newest recital, Mara.
     
    For this world premiere, composer/musician Aditya Prakash provides a score that draws on classical Indian music, brass band jazz, and funk played live by his Aditya Prakash Ensemble.
     
    Video wizard Kate Johnson and lighting magician Eileen Cooley are part of the team creating a world that blends contemporary western theatre elements with South Asia storytelling, dance, and music. (Price: $20-$50)