Lost Shiva Temple Buried in Sand Discovered by Local Villagers

HeritageDaily ^ | June 18, 2020 | unattributed

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Built in the early 1700’s - buried in 1850.
Not a very long use span.

[dp0622]

:)

Amazing searching for a temple based on tales told by elders.

And finding it.

I would figure since it’s 300 years old there would be records on it in some form. I guess not.

Or someone’s writings about it being lost.

I can’t image the excitement of walking into for the first time when they get to that point

[HombreSecreto]

Dancing with all those arms doing nothing...

[LostInBayport]

Due to Covid-19 lockdown, villagers who had heard tales from their elders about a lost temple decided to try and locate it themselves.

Now that wins the "this is how I made quality use of my free time during lockdown" award.

[Cold Heart]

It flooded that high?

I will guess the top layer was wind driven.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The Taliban will get right on it. Or maybe the Eastern Division of BLM can start tearing it down.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Darn, I came in for a break from yard work and had the exact same thought as you, only 50 minutes too late. See #26.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"A giant pressure washer should do the trick."

I'll send a crew right over...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Amazing searching for a temple based on tales told by elders.

That's what I thought, too. Maybe literacy arrived very late in that region and there were no written records except for what was in the temple itself. I don't know if India has written records that go back centuries like Europe.

[bigbob]

I’ll bet no Zoom meetings were required to coordinate this project

[dp0622]

That would make sense. I really don’t know much about the country in terms of its evolution.
I don’t even know what the big cities were like then there, no less outside villages :-)

[SunkenCiv]

Wild guess is, the water came from higher ground, and the overall terrain is hilly.

[SunkenCiv]

Oppenheimer also had a pool regarding whether the atmospheric test would be sufficient to cause a massive nuclear chain reaction in the Earth's atmosphere, thus destroying everything. It was just some egghead humor.

[EEGator]

I did Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Monitoring in the USAF.

Good flick. (Narrated by William Shatner!)

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

Didn’t Mr. Oppenheimer also say, paraphrasing, “ I’ve become the destroyer of worlds?”

Or was it Mr. Teller?

5.56mm

[minnesota_bound]

Geez... how close to the river was it?

[rdl6989]

Exactly!

[cloudmountain]

Dancing with all those arms doing nothing...

The Hindus have some 330 million different faces of god. Shiva IS one of the three main ones: the other two being Vishnu and Brahma.

The Hindus are very "liquid" with their attitudes about God. They do, however, have some very strange ideas about life and death.
SUTTEE was where widows LEAPED into their dead husband's funeral pyre. That is illegal now.
The SADHUS are an all together VERY, VERY strange. A Sadhu and swami, sadhu also spelled saddhu, in India, is a religious ascetic or holy person. The class of sadhus includes "renunciants" of many types and faiths. You want the weirdest and most bizarre? Check out what some of these men do.

The Chinese are very easy to figure our: luck and money are their two "gods" and their lives all revolve around money.

[SunkenCiv]

Apparently a little *too*. :^)

[SunkenCiv]

Literacy in societies was for a very long time confined to a small part of the population, basically, people who ran things. But the survival in folklore probably suffers when a society becomes more broadly literate. In some of the Time Team episodes this or that rumored lost medieval structure turns out to have been photographed before demolition, including one that wasn't torn down until the 1950s, not that long ago. :^)