PHOTOS: The Blood Moon (April 14-15)

Seth Auberon, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Bruce McClure and Deborah Byrd (EarthSky.org) 

Total lunar eclipse of Oct. 27, 2004 (Fred Espenak/NASA). Why does the Moon turn red?

Moon, Luna or Chandra, becomes a Blood Red Moon (Luc Viatour/earthsky.org)

 

Mars, eclipsed Moon, Spica (CA)

The first Blood Moon eclipse in a series of a tetrad (four) is coming up on Tuesday, April 14-15, 2014. 

It falls on the night of the Buddhist uposatha (lunar observance). This total eclipse of the Moon, Chandra, will be visible from the Americas. 

The astronomy community had not heard the term "Blood Moon" used in quite this way before this year. But now the term is becoming widespread in the mainstream media. 

The waxing Moon, April 10 (earthsky.org)

The origin of the term is religious, at least according to Christian pastor John Hagee, who wrote a prophetic 2013 book about Blood Moons.

Meanwhile, both astronomers and some proponents of Christian prophesy are talking about the upcoming lunar tetrad -- the series of four total lunar eclipses -- beginning on the night of April 14-15. More

• What is a lunar tetrad?
• Blood Moons in Biblical prophecy
• Dates of Biblical prophecy Blood Moons in 2014 and 2015
• Why is the term Blood Moon being used to mean a full moon of a lunar tetrad?
• The Buddhist Precepts of the Lunar Observance

Why do Buddhists love the Moon? 

Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)

 

Under a Full Moon, Hsi Lai (WQ)

Why do Buddhists revere and admire the Moon instead of worshiping the Sun like everyone else? In an oppressively hot country like India, heat and light are in ample supply, whereas cool and contrast come at a premium. A moon is dazzling against a dark sky, but a sun saturates the sky and washes out its dazzling potential. Living far north of equatorial or tropical regions, it is the Sun -- Sol or Surya -- that becomes the most important. One worships the Sun to ensure that it returns and melts the snow, warms the ground, sprouts the seeds, and matures the plant life to eat. In the general darkness and gloom, heat and light become the most important things. Buddhists from warm places and well-lit latitudes, admiring yin, will continue to be cool and gentle and gleaming.

Secret underground worlds (video)

Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; David Wilcock, Giorgio Tsoukalos, David Hatcher Childress (C2C), Linda Moulton Howe... (History.com)

(History Channel) documentary: ANCIENT MAN MADE TUNNELS: Underground Civilizations

Buddhist stone carved caves of Ellora, India

The first stop is Turkey's underground city of Derinkkuyu in Cappadocia. Then onto the origins of U.S. DUMBS (Deep Underground Military Bases) in the American Southwest (and elsewhere), built by aliens and once inhabited by various Puebloan and other Native peoples or "Indians." See Minute 9:45 for the Native Americans and civilizations in the Southwestern United States: Navajo, Zuni, Pueblo, Hopi, and Apache tribes. These First Nations people all share a common creation "myth" of emerging from the ground rather than coming across the Bering Straits and down from Alaska as modern anthropologist try to explain. By their own account, they got help from the "Snake People" (nagas) and "Ant People" -- subterranean humanoid dwellers.

• Right beneath our feet: the reality of underground bases
• VIDEO: Lost Cities: Archeological Cover ups like the Egyptian-Buddhist caves of the Grand Canyon, USA (David Hatcher Childress)
• Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of the Southwest
• Was the carved "installation" in the Grand Canyon a Buddhist temple? -- Discovered by American anthropologists and buried by the Smithsonian
• A look inside the storybook architecture unique to L.A.

Lost Civilizations: Cambodia, Egypt, Mexico...

Dhr. Seven, Dev, Wisdom Quarterly; Graham Hancock; Cambodia Channel

(Cambodia Channel) "In Search of the Lost Civilization" by Graham Hancock (3 episodes)

Khmer, Bayon temple, Angkor Wat (PKP)

"In Search of the Lost Civilization" with Graham Hancock features Cambodia's magnificent Angkor Wat Hindu then Buddhist temple complex, the center of an advanced jungle civilization of 1 million urban and suburban residents and a great Southeast Asian empire. It is compared to the untold treasures of dynastic Egypt, megalithic Mexico, underwater Japan, the Nazca Desert of Peru, Easter Island, Micronesia, and elsewhere.

What are the connection between Angkor Wat in the Cambodian jungle (formerly the seat of the great Khmer Empire), pyramids in the Egyptian desert, and stone monuments on Easter Island and in Micronesia?

Scanning Angkor Wat sites (livescience)

What is the underwater mystery of the stone complex in Japan? The last time it was above water was 10,000 years ago.

 

Our ancestors were certainly highly intelligent beings with technology excelling our own today. For thousands of years ago they precisely predicted a solar eclipse over Mexico that arrived in 1991.

Egypt destroyed by Aegean Sea Peoples

In this set of video recordings, writer Graham Hancock traverses the world and explains his controversial theory that an ancient civilization of highly intelligent people sailed or traversed the planet as early as 10,500 B.C. They spread advanced astronomical knowledge and built precise ancient observatories.
 

Angkor Thom, Cambodia (Dibattista)

Skeptics may scoff, but Hancock points out similarities in giant stone structures in the Egyptian desert and Cambodian jungle, and on Easter Island and in Micronesia. He points out evidence of an ancient society of seafarers. His proposals seem utterly bizarre at first, but he presents them in an understated way making use of clever computer graphics and aerial photography to illustrate the startling similarities in ancient structures found from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific.

Cambodian Theravada Buddhist monks in front of Angkor Temple, central shrine and pool

Tour Vedic and Buddhist India with Graham Hancock in 2014