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    I was in the Himalayas recently for three months and there were swastikas everywhere and everybody loves Shiva. The vibrations are very good and so are the people. Very agreeable company all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Psychonaut View Post
    I suppose you were meaning to say, "I don't agree. Cernunnos predates Buddhism." However, I took it to mean, "I don't agree that Cernunnos predates Buddhism." A wonderful example of the importance of good grammar!
    Its early morning where I am 6.19am, a good excuse though.
    Quote Originally Posted by Fortis_in_Arduis View Post
    I was in the Himalayas recently for three months and there were swastikas everywhere and everybody loves Shiva. The vibrations are very good and so are the people. Very agreeable company all.
    Are you sure it wasnt show for the Tourists.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ikki View Post
    besides you are all wrong

    While buddhism was founded around 500 bc, it was a very small and marginal cult among hundreds just like it.
    It wasnt until the greeks arrived in india, and wholly new buddhist art began appearing... with a clear hellenic influence, along with hellenic humanist values (what is good in life? )... that this new buddhism took flight.

    Notice how its based upon philosophy.. in an era when the term and concept was kinda unknown elsewhere, rather than ritual as religions in India. India certainly had fabulists... but not quite philosophers..
    Middle path etc, things that was the very latest in greek thinking.


    Intrestingly enough those very same thoughts continued in the hellenic world, especially alexandria still around 300 AD, where and when a certain other religion was vbeing created golden rules, moderation etc... hahah
    Alexander The Great and his influence in Greco Buddhism

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Foley View Post
    Are you sure it wasnt show for the Tourists.
    No, they are quite warm towards British people and I had lots of kind invitations, commendations and well-wishes.

    One of my afternoon conversants, and elderly Jaina had a lot of good to say about Ireland too, as his daughter and son-in-law are consultants in the medical field living in Dublin.

    When you go up into the Himalayas, the people, the scenery and the general attitudes change and become very congenial. The Indian Himalayas, Tibet and Nepal have a certain something about them.

    The show for the tourists comes when you go down to the plains and find yourself swamped by beggars and people who just want your money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lutiferre View Post
    Here is the Cernunnos from the Gundestrup Cauldron in Denmark, a left-behind of the Celto-Germanic Cimbri tribe that inhabited Denmark at the time.

    You can see how it's almost a sitting Buddha.

    But the more likely explanation is that Celtic mythology has eastern influences/loans/origins.
    Kernunnos was from teh Padania.

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    Hellenistic influence...
    From Gandhara Indus Valley:
    Note the halo, three dimensional realism and Greek hairdo.

    Hellenistic influence under the Central Asian Kushan (depicts a secular figure as denoted by jewels.) Apparently rulers were depicted like Bodhisattvas.


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    Both the horns of the meditating ancient deities and Buddha's typical curled hair refer to the realization of the fractal nature of the universe.

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