Srinigar

[poliphilo]

I was thinking about the Jesus tomb in Srinigar and how I can't assess whether it's a fake or not because I don't know how Srinigar works.

People in Kashmir have oral traditions about how Jesus came to their country. OK. In the west if you test an oral tradition to destruction you find- as often as not- that it actually goes back about fifty years. Tops.

But maybe in Srinigar it's different.

The mystic east and all that.

If the tomb were in Rennes le Chateau or even Jerusalem I'd be able to get a handle on it.

But Srinigar is outside my experience. It's not in my 'hood.

I know what a conman sounds like- but only if he's wearing a business suit or a Roman collar. Put him in one of those Islamic robey things and I'm kerfuffled.

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[currawong.livejournal.com]

The Apostle Thomas Didymus is reputed to have made it to India. He is also reputed by some exegetes to be Jesus's twin brother. Both names mean "twin" so his name means Twin the Twin. That's if you take any of that highly dubious, (and I include "the Mainstram"), stuff seriously. It was all so long ago, in a dreary backwater of the Roman Empire that was the contemporary equivalent of modern day Baghdad, and in the 400 years following the alleged events, everyone who had an agenda put their oar in. Best ignored where possible, I think.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes, at this distance it's all unprovable- and we're just banging our heads against a wall.

But I find it hard to ignore. It's my conditioning, I guess...

[currawong.livejournal.com]

(sings): I'm gonna wash that man right outta my hair,
And send him on HIS way ......

(that damn ointment is hard to get out of it too).