Then again, maybe not.
Posted on 08/15/2011 1:38:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
We saw it coming when rumors of the cobra curse started spreading.
Officials at Kerala’s Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple – where a treasure estimated to be worth $22 billion was found last month – had warned against opening the last of its sealed vaults, citing the image of a cobra that ominously guarded its entrance. The vault – Chamber “B” – is still sealed.
But now a group of astrologers say they are sure tragedy will befall those who upset the temple’s deity further. The god, they say, is already angry about outsiders rummaging through the other five vaults, the contents of which revealed golden idols and diamonds, among other treasures.
After holding a four-day astrological conclave – a “devaprasnam,” which literally means “inquiring of the god” – they warned on Thursday that unsealing Chamber “B” and moving the treasure from its temple could, in true treasure legend fashion, unleash the wrath of the gods, according to media reports. “The wealth should not be displaced. The lord is not pleased with intrusion into the chambers that has already taken place. And none of the valuables should be exhibited within the temple or outside. If you do so you will go against the lord’s will,” Padmnabha Sharma, a temple astrologer, told reporters in an interaction broadcast by television channel IBNLive.
Mr. Sharma went as far as saying that the family members of those who would dare open the vault could die – possibly poisoned or as a result of a snake bite, the Times of India reported. Only god, they argued, could unseal the chamber.
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Then again, maybe not.
Indiana. Indiana... let it go.</Scottish accent>
Well hell.
I reckon they should call some folks without any family and bust that sucker open.
Do I have to think of everything?
“...Open the case.”
Wow, with the whole snake motif, the Stargate creative team really missed this one.
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Thanks nickcarraway.Officials at Kerala's Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple -- where a treasure estimated to be worth $22 billion was found last month -- had warned against opening the last of its sealed vaults, citing the image of a cobra that ominously guarded its entrance.One of the guys involved with the opening of Tut's tomb in the 1920s died from an mosquito bite that got infected from a nick from his razor as he shaved one morning -- and yet there are bozos out there who continue to claim it was a (non-existent) curse that did it. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. |
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We have a god - really a demiurge - who will open it. Send Obama the One.
Why don’t people damned well leave tombs alone? That is a BURIAL SITE... not a souvenier stand. It never ceases to amaze me how people can think this is an OK thing to do. I don’t care what treasures there are inside. If ther are they belong to the deceased because in their beliefs they will have these things in the next life. Believe it or don’t believe it but...it is THEIR belief and people should have more respect. Makes me sick that they think they can just go dig up someone. Jesus. Enuff is enuff.
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Send in an army of orphans with picks and shovels and include all the anti-venom they can carry.
The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God, J. Milton Hayes
There’s a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu,
There’s a little marble cross below the town;
There’s a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew,
And the Yellow God forever gazes down.
He was known as “Mad Carew” by the subs at Khatmandu,
He was hotter than they felt inclined to tell;
But for all his foolish pranks, he was worshipped in the ranks,
And the Colonel’s daughter smiled on him as well.
He had loved her all along, with a passion of the strong,
The fact that she loved him was plain to all.
She was nearly twenty-one and arrangements had begun
To celebrate her birthday with a ball.
He wrote to ask what present she would like from Mad Carew;
They met next day as he dismissed a squad;
And jestingly she told him then that nothing else would do
But the green eye of the little Yellow God.
On the night before the dance, Mad Carew seemed in a trance,
And they chaffed him as they puffed at their cigars:
But for once he failed to smile, and he sat alone awhile,
Then went out into the night beneath the stars.
He returned before the dawn, with his shirt and tunic torn,
And a gash across his temple dripping red;
He was patched up right away, and he slept through all the day,
And the Colonel’s daughter watched beside his bed.
He woke at last and asked if they could send his tunic through;
She brought it, and he thanked her with a nod;
He bade her search the pocket saying “That’s from Mad Carew,”
And she found the little green eye of the god.
She upbraided poor Carew in the way that women do,
Though both her eyes were strangely hot and wet;
But she wouldn’t take the stone and Mad Carew was left alone
With the jewel that he’d chanced his life to get.
When the ball was at its height, on that still and tropic night,
She thought of him and hurried to his room;
As she crossed the barrack square she could hear the dreamy air
Of a waltz tune softly stealing thro’ the gloom.
His door was open wide, with silver moonlight shining through;
The place was wet and slipp’ry where she trod;
An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,
‘Twas the “Vengeance of the Little Yellow God.”
There’s a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu,
There’s a little marble cross below the town;
There’s a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew,
And the Yellow God forever gazes down.
Now that it is known what to expect someone is going to open that chamber, perhaps Maoists with guns.
ping
I’m with you on this.
Even Tutankhamun: photograph, record, document and investigate the treasures thoroughly, but then PUT THEM BACK!
Does PRIVATE PROPERTY mean nothing to you? Even if the owner and his immediate family is dead, it is NOT YOUR PROPERTY!
You don’t go into your recently passed neighbour’s home to see what you can take, do you? Why then do you think it any less offensive to PLUNDER the graves of the long dead? Is the length of their demise justification for the theft of their things?
Sometimes there really is a cobra in there . . . .
Just check to see if it sez “Shelby” on the mailbox.
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