The Other Tomb of Jesus Christ - Kashmir

Many of us in the west know the story of Christ and where he was buried, its referred to as the Holy Sepulchre. It was the place where a great stone rolled to the door, outside the walls of Jerusalem, in the place called Calvary. We grew up hearing this story countless times, for the simple fact that this story correlates to the telling in the Biblical documents we have collected and amassed, known as the Bible. But it shouldn't come as a shock to some, that other nations (and in fact other religions) have had to contend with the figure of Christ. And in doing so, many have laid claim to being the place where the 'true' tomb of Christ exist. And this is where our journey begins.....

The Ahmadis believed that Jesus, or as they call him Yuz Asaf survived the crucifixion and subsequently traveled to Kashmir, where he lived, preached and died. Similar beliefs are held about Yuz Asaf by a wide variety of people and groups, including some hindu groups that see him as Isa Masih, a Hindu Saint. The belief is held because in the Hindu literature known as the Bhavishya Maha Purana there contains some ten verses indicating that Jesus was in India/Kashmir during the reign of King Shalivahan, which has been placed within 39 to 50 C.E. Jesus is said to have spoken to the King and gave his teachings in full, there after his teaching where included alongside Hindu teachings. Other local beliefs about Yuz Asaf include that he married a woman called Marjam (that is, Mary) who bore him a number of children, and that he lived to be between 105-110 years old before he died. It is also claimed that Jesus' mother, Mary, died when he was 38 years old, and is buried nearby in the town Murree in Pakistan, where her burial place is called Mai Mari da Ashtan. There is also the Yusufzai, which is the name of a tribe in Afghanistan who still maintain ancient Israelite customs. To them the word means 'child or children of Joseph.'

It is worth noting that in Islam, Jesus' name is Isa as well. Moreover, Islam in general doesn't even believe that Jesus underwent the crucifixion, but that someone substituted for him on the cross (Some say one of his brothers). Also, In Iranian traditions by Agha Mustafai, it is said that Yuz Asaf came there from the west and preached, causing many to believe in him. It is said he also taught a strange form of reincarnation there. [See : (John, 1:21), (Matthew 11:14.) and (Matthew 17:12,13). Where Elijah became John the Baptist/Second chapter of II Kings, Elijah does not die, but rather is called up into heaven while yet alive.] Within northwest Afghanistan, centered in the city of Herat, an explorer of Sufism, O. M. Burke, came across a sect of some 1000 people who are devotees of Yuz Asaf, whom they also knew as Isa, son of Maryam.Their tradition includes Isa, the prophet from Israel, having escaped the cross, traveled to India and settled in Kashmir.

So there we have it, many groups of peoples all thru out Asia saying that Jesus went to Kashmir, taught, lived, had children and died in old age. But is there any sort of inscription on the so-called "Tomb of Christ"? Indeed there is, in Persian script the inscription says : "At this time Yuz Asaf proclaimed his prophethood. Year fifty and four [in the reign of King Gopadatta]. and He is Jesus, prophet of the Children of Israel." But what of it? The correct dating and significance of the year 54 is not clear. The year has been placed within the reign of King Gopadatta at 107 C.E. by Kersten, and at 78 C.E. by Professor Fida Hassnain, director of archives and antiquities in Kashmir. Very interesting indeed. Sadly, not many western minds take any of this seriously. So no outside sources have made much of these legends or even tried to partake in serious research on the subject of the tomb. But nonetheless, if this is in conflict with your system of belief (Christianity) , just remember next time you're speaking to a Muslim, Hindu, Iranian or Sufi what John 3:16 truly says : "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Perhaps this whole salvation thing is larger then your first glance....
Links, quotes and sources - Wiki -Yuz Asaf , TombofJesus.com & Traditions of Jesus
within Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Paganism, The BBC Documentary - "Did Jesus Die on the Cross?" Featuring the Kashmir Site- At Google Video & Amature Video of the Grave Site in Kashmir - YouTube

Holga Camera - Wicked Cool

Tonight one of my co-workers had an intresting box sitting on the desk, when i asked what it was come to find out it was a camera, but not just any camera - i would soon find out. The camera in question is a Holga Camera, the box was clearly from China, but what made it so damn intresting where the examples of the types of pictures it took. Ohh, by the way when this camera first came out it was a toy camera, 15 bucks in local Chinese toy shops. Keep in mind none of these images are photoshoped, the camera does all the work by means of its shortcomings. ( And a bit of knowledge of how to exploit its shortcomings ) Make sure to click these pictures to see the full effect - amazing.




Thing is you can STILL get these cameras in there most basic form for 25 bucks. Seems a whole photography subcuture has sprung about all around this cheap toy that makes amazing artistic photos. Or as Wiki says -

" The often bizarre photographic results of these effects have ironically
popularized the camera with an international audience, and Holga photos have
won numerous awards and competitions in art and news photography."

Very cool indeed, You can also buy Modded-Holga Cameras that do some amazing things like, strobe effects, color effects, creates tracers, etc.... and you can get this type for a cool 75 bucks. I don't know about you but im seriously thinking about picking one of these puppies up! Awesome links after the break!


Best site for all Holga info- HUGE Gallery too - Lomography Holga
Very informative Wiki article - Wiki Holga
As a side note if you plan on buying one go to Ebay or Amazon, way cheaper......

World’s Largest Jade Buddha

W.Y. of Random Citations has a post of this amazing sculpted Buddha: the world’s largest jade Buddha statue!

The statue was sculpted from a piece of jade 7.95 meters high, 6.88 meters wide, 4.10 meters thick, weighing 260.76 tons. This piece of jade was found in the nearby Xiuyan town, known as "hometown of jade", on 22 July 1960.

Anshan Jade Buddha Via Wiki

Guido Daniele - Body paint art

"Guido Daniele was born in Soverato (CZ - Italy) and now lives and works in Milan. Since 1964 until 1968 he attended Brera artistic High School and he graduated from Brera School of Arts (major in sculpturing) in 1972.

In 1990 he added a new artistic experience to his previous ones: using the "body painting" technique he creates and paints models bodies for different situations such as advertising pictures and commercials, fashion events and exhibitions. His personal artistic research has recently led him to the combination of the two traditional portrait techniques, which are photography and oil painting."

While not the most amazing artist, an intresting medium nonetheless.
Link - Guido Daniele

Pictures that lie - Cnet

Folks interested in information literacy should especially appreciate C-Net's gallery of photos that have been manipulated, and its commentary on the alterations.
samples :
This digital composite of Sen. John Kerry and Jane Fonda sharing a stage at an antiwar rally emerged during the 2004 presidential primaries while Kerry campaigned for the Democratic nomination.The picture of Kerry was captured by photographer Ken Light as Kerry was preparing to give a speech at the Register for Peace Rally held in Mineola, N.Y., in June 1971. The picture of Jane Fonda was captured by Owen Franken as Fonda spoke at a political rally in Miami Beach, Fla., in August 1972.This March 2004 political ad for George W. Bush, prepared during his run for president, shows a sea of soldiers as a backdrop to a child holding a flag. This image was digitally doctored by copying and pasting, from the original photograph, several soldiers in order to digitally remove Bush from a podium. After acknowledging that the photo had been doctored, the Bush campaign said that the ad would be re-edited and reshipped to TV stations.

More Examples here - Pictures that lie - Cnet

Google Gadgets For Your Webpage

The free tools include the Babelfish translator, the Google conversion calculator, time and date, Google Maps, driving directions, Wikipedia search, and SO much more. Just pick the gadget you like, get the code and add to your Webpage!

Link - Free Google Tool Codes

Jean-Philippe Charbonnier - Photos of Psychiatric Hospitals

In 1954 Jean-Philippe Charbonnier documented French Psychiatric hospitals and this exhibition includes rarely seen photographs from the series. Some of the photographs were first published in Réalités in January 1955. Here a selection of the original reportage is shown followed by the magazine layouts - published in the magazine with two fluffy cats on the cover. It is interesting to see that a number of most most powerful images were not published due to the sensitivities of the 1950s and that the eyes of the patients are at times masked to protect their identities.

23 more images - Luminous-Lint

Reiniger's Prince Achmed - 1926 - Rare Film

"If you ask the average person what the first feature-length animated film was, just about everyone will answer Walt Disney's "Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs". But Disney's film wasn't the first animated feature by a longshot. Arguably, that honor belongs to Lotte Reiniger's "Adventures of Prince Achmed".

In 1923, Reiniger and her husband and business partner, Carl Koch began work on an ambitious project... a feature length silhouette puppet film based on "The One Thousand and One Nights". She worked with animator Bertold Bartosch and background artist Walter Ruttman for three years on the film. The paper cutouts were jointed using wires and delicately arranged on top of a lightbox, where it was photographed frame by frame. Reiniger continued to animate her distinctive silhouette films up into the mid-1970s. She passed away in 1981." Source - Animation Archive

This important film is available at Amazon - Adventures of Prince Achmed DVD

Odd Vintage Images

Free Spaghetti Western Soundtracks

I dont know about you but i love the music on spaghetti Western's. The best-known and perhaps archetypal spaghetti Westerns were the so-called Man With No Name trilogy (or Dollars Trilogy) directed by Sergio Leone, and with musical scores composed by Ennio Morricone (all of whom are now synonymous with the genre): A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). Ennio Morricone is truly the master of the spaghetti western film score.

Download these soundtracks for godsakes, they OWN!
A Fistful Of Dollars.mp3
For A Few Dollars More.mp3
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.mp3

Full Link with LOADS of songs - Free Spaghetti Western Soundtracks

AllUC.org - Free Movies - Tv Shows

AllUC.org is the mother of all free visual media on the net. I'm talking 1000's of various movies, shows, cartoons, music videos, anime - etc. All on one easy to use page, featuring even genres under the movies section. As an example here are some of the various forms of media you can expect. Movies like - James Bond: Casino Royale, Jackass 2, Night at Museum, Rocky Balboa, Tv Shows like - Dexter, Ugly Betty, Nip/Tuck, 24, Cartoons like - Aeon Flux, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Boondocks and SO MANY MORE. Seriously, even if a show i listed isnt your cup of tea, i'm willing to bet they have what you're looking for! So give it a look!

Link - AllUC.org

The author is not responsible for any contents linked or referred to from his pages - If any damage occurs by the use of information presented there, only the author of the respective pages might be liable, not the one who has linked to these pages.

The Green Pastures - Rare Film - 1936

This is a film that modern audiences may approach with mixed feelings. At a time when black actors struggled harder than any other period, this film emerged with the historical significance of being the first in history to use an entirely black cast. The Green Pastures, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Marc Connelly, is a reenactment of stories of the Old Testament in which all the characters (including God) are African American and speak in a black southern dialect.The Green Pastures follows stories of the Bible, such as Adam and Eve, Noah and the flood, Moses and the exodus from Egypt, and the crucifixion of Christ, but places them in a rural black southern setting.


There is nothing intrinsically offensive about this all-white use of all-black stereotypes to illustrate the gospel religion of Deep South slavery. On one hand at times one can tell stereotypes where forced upon some of the actors, on the other hand, in a matter of seconds, they are given the ability to act as true actors of the day, i.e. no stereotypes. While one could easily find fault with some of the direction given to the actors - its does stand as an amazingly progressive film for 1936. Moments like the mass Exodus of Slaves, singing gospel hymns, is nothing short of moving - frankly breathtaking. And one can almost sense the joy of the actors portraying such a scene in that day and time.

There can be no questioning the uplifting moral fiber of the tales, the infectious spirit of its music, or the genuine affection brought to their parts by the actors involved. In my mind this is a must see, not only is it an amazing film in it own right, but it serves as a piece of history. One where the white audience is served the foolish stereotypes of their day and at once back-handed by the graceful presence the actors displayed in a story where slaves are lifted up by God (a black YHWH). It was no accident that the film is double handed, and for this reason its is truly a work of art and a rare jewel of its day.

Read another review at - Black-Flim.com

Nuclear Shadows in Hiroshima

This bridge, located about 900 meters from the nuclear explosion in Hiroshima, Japan, got a permanent “nuclear shadow” of the handrails.

Wikipedia explains why:

Since thermal radiation travels in straight lines from the fireball (unless scattered) any opaque object will produce a protective shadow. If fog or haze scatters the light, it will heat things from all directions and shielding will be less effective. Massive spread of radiation would also occur, which would be
at the mercy of the wind.

It seems that they have also found shadows of people but not their bodies (which were instantly vaporized by the heat of the explosion.)
Nukeworker tells us more about the nuclear effects, with some more images of this great human loss in Hiroshima.

Image Source along with 5000 more images - Nuke Worker

Giant Rabbits - North Koreas New Food Source

This 22 lb giant rabbit from Germany, will soon be on its way to a new home - North Korea. The Communist state has determined that Karl Szmolinsky’s prize winning rabbits are the answer to its food shortages, and has already purchased 12 rabbits that they keep in a petting zoo until Szmolinsky can teach them how to bread the beasts. Link [Spiegel] Actual picture bellow.

Nicholas Roerich - His Visionary Art

In my last post i told you about Nicholas Roerich and his dealing with the 33rd Vice President of the United States, also his influence on the reverse of The Great Seal of the United States. As a fan of the mans Art, i thought i would also share that with you as well. With out further ado, the artwork of Nicholas Roerich.

The collection of all his works may be found here - The Nicholas Roerich Museum

Nicholas Roerich - Yogi to a Vice President

Nicholas Roerich (Russian- Николай Константинович Рёрих) was a poet, artist and eminent man of learning who had emigrated from White Russia and settled in Paris. He was regarded as one of the most distinguished of the Theosophical elite of the period. Apart from searching for the home of the Mahatmas, the purpose of his scientific expedition across Tibet and Xinjiang to Altai (1923-26) was never made entirely clear in his diary, but appears to have been related to the return of a certain sacred stone. Roerich also laid claim to having had an encounter with UFO's.



Henry Wallace, the 33rd Vice President of the United States (1941–45), also Franklin Delano Roosevelt's two-term secretary of agriculture, sampled a great many religious creeds, studying Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Islam, and Christian Science, among others. He also investigated secret societies and Eastern cults, developing a fondness for the arcane symbols and practices favored by such groups. Not long after Wallace assumed his post at the Department of Agriculture, he became acquainted with a strangely charismtic Russian emigre named Nikolay Konstantinovich Roerich. The business matter that brought Roerich and Wallace in contact was a pet project of the guru called the Roerich Paca and Banner of Peace. Wallace was so taken with Roerich's plan - and promoted it so energetically - that in 1935, delegates from twenty-one nations turned out to put their names to the agreement at a White House ceremony. Franklin Roosevelt himself presided over the gathering.



Shortly after Wallace pursuaded his fellow cabinet officer, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., to make a change in the U.S. currency. An exotic-looking symbol of a pyramid with an all-seeing eye at its apex had long been part of the Great Seal of the United States. At Roerich'surging, Wallace convinced his colleague to make the symbol a fixture on the back of every one-dollar bill. Morgenthau later claimed that it was not until after the change had been made that he learned of the pyramid's "cabalistic significance for members of a small religious sect." Documents leaked into newspapers soon there after showing personal letters between Wallace and Roerich, calling Roerich "My Yogi". Wallace was then accused of harboring communist sympathies. Shortly there after Wallace publicly cut ties with Roerich. The two where never in contact again.

Or as Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. explains, "Wallace's search for inner light took
him to strange prophets.... It was in this search that he encountered Nicholas
Roerich, a Russian emigre, painter, theosophist and con man. Wallace did Roerich
a number of favors, including sending him on an expedition to Central Asia
presumably to collect drought-resistant grasses. In due course, H.A. [Wallace]
became disillusioned with Roerich and turned almost viciously against him." [2]

Sources :FusionAnomaly - Wiki - Wallace - Wiki - Roerick

Alejandro Jodorowsky - DVD Boxset - Coming soon

Jodorowsky talks about THE HOLY MOUNTAIN and EL TOPO. This was recently released by ABKCO Films for the upcoming official DVD release of his films.



ABKCO Flims
The unofficial bootlegs

Masterpieces of Mesoamerican Art

Within these photo galleries provided within the link below, you will find full-color photographs of archaeological sites and museums from all over Mexico, complete with detailed captions.


Link - Mesoamerican Photo Archives