July 3, 2007
Metaphysical China: Buddha/Mary calling?
Some odd news from the nation's favourite English paper today:
A human-shaped shadow in the middle of a rainbow halo appears on Zushan Mountain after a heavy rainfall in Qinhuangdao, North China's Heibei Province, July 1, 2007. The vision, which many tourists believed to be the Buddha, stayed for more than an hour.
Meanwhile, it seems a revered shrine in Henan that has attracted 40,000 pilgrims annually on news of Marian apparitions may be torn down for "illegal religious activity". Hmm.
Image from China Daily.
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Totally bogus. Whoever snapped the picture was standing atop a mountain with the sun directly behind him/her, or there was a rock casting a shadow on the mist below. I believe in God and all, but this is BS.
There's commentary on the destruction of that Marian shrine in Henan, over here:
http://shanghaiscrap.com/?p=89
It's called a Brockenspectre.