Read and the scales will fall from your eyes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shing%C5%8D,_Aomori#Tomb_of_Jesus_Christ
(Or perhaps you'll have a laugh or some other emotional reaction...)
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Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2012, 16:34
Subject: Re: [Traveller_TNE] Re: Question for the group
Please, please, what is the story of Jesus' tomb?
I love stuff like how Jesus and Mary Magdalene ran of to Southern France,
and Jesus' bloodline has been preserved in blah, blah, whatever, and how
the Holy Grail ("san graal") is just misdirection for royal blood ("sang
real"), and this has to be MUCH better than that story, a little bit of
Mormonism 13th AWOL Tribe, some Thor Heyerdahl, etc.
> Did you get to see any of the Aomori/Tohoku festivals? I did a tour of
> them back in '04 and they certainly rocked. Even better was a winter
> festival in a small village in Iwate where the resident built a pyre of
> wood, loin-clothed men climbed on top - and the it was set on fire. They
> competed to see who would be the last to jump down, with the rest of the
> village throwing snow up to them to keep them cool. After that they used
> the still-glowing staves of wood to purify the local shrine by attacking
> it!
>
> Jesus's tomb, by local legend, is reputed to be in the Aomori/Iwate area
> too!
>
> Eamon
>
>
>>From: John Potter <>
>
>>I was on a joint command up Misawa, the base itself was Air Force. I was
>> part of the NSGA (National Security Group
>>Activity) as it was called back then. CTM (Cryptological Technician
>> - Maintenance) was my rating.
>