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Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Religion

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Name: Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.
Author: Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Idols and images -- Worship; Mythology; Religions

Besides the Shway-da-Gong Pagoda, there is a host of lesser ones. The
erection of pagodas is generally a work of merit. It must be borne in
mind that these are never temples, but simply relic-houses. There are
temples and monasteries grouped around them. At one place is the
“Seven Pagodas,” built on the spot where Gautama--when, in the course
of his transmigrations, his soul inhabited the body of a rooster--is
said to have scratched for his breakfast. Again, there are others built
where Gautama has left the imprint of his footsteps.

  [Illustration: SACRED GARDENS ATTACHED TO A BUDDHIST TEMPLE.]

  [Illustration: PAGODA AT MAULMAIN, BURMAH. LITTLE BELLS
  SUSPENDED FROM ITS SUMMIT SWING IN THE WIND.]

There are a great many traditions told in regard to the building of
these pagodas. One legend runs thus: A certain hermit, having received
one of the hairs of the Lord, wandered about searching for a suitable
spot where to enshrine it. In the meanwhile he reverently carried the
sacred relic on his head. After some time he arrived on the summit
of this mountain, and deposited the holy hair in the cleft of the
rock, and erected the pagoda on the great boulder. From this legend
is derived the name “Kyeik-ethel-yŭh,” meaning “the object of
worship borne on the head of the hermit.” This boulder is more than
half hanging over the perpendicular face of a cliff. How it holds its
position it is indeed difficult to say, as it lies beyond the line of
the centre of gravity. The boulder is thirty feet high, and the pagoda
fifteen feet. Another legend is as follows:

Two merchants joined together and built a small pagoda, two feet high.
The next morning, when they went to pay their homage at this shrine,
they found the pagoda had increased to double their work; so, taking
this as a sign that the Nats approved of their offering, they continued
to enlarge this pile of brick; they working by day and the unseen power
by night. It now measures more than three hundred feet high. They have
also a stone, which they call an impression of Gautama’s foot. Some
of these stones are six feet long, and covered with strange figures
supposed to express their religious ideas.


                           WORSHIP OF NATS.

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Religion

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Idols and images -- Worship; Mythology; Religions

Besides the Shway-da-Gong Pagoda, there is a host of lesser ones. The
erection of pagodas is generally a work of merit. It must be borne in
mind that these are never temples, but simply relic-houses. There are
temples and monasteries grouped around them. At one place is the
“Seven Pagodas,” built on the spot where Gautama--when, in the course
of his transmigrations, his soul inhabited the body of a rooster--is
said to have scratched for his breakfast. Again, there are others built
where Gautama has left the imprint of his footsteps.

  [Illustration: SACRED GARDENS ATTACHED TO A BUDDHIST TEMPLE.]

  [Illustration: PAGODA AT MAULMAIN, BURMAH. LITTLE BELLS
  SUSPENDED FROM ITS SUMMIT SWING IN THE WIND.]

There are a great many traditions told in regard to the building of
these pagodas. One legend runs thus: A certain hermit, having received
one of the hairs of the Lord, wandered about searching for a suitable
spot where to enshrine it. In the meanwhile he reverently carried the
sacred relic on his head. After some time he arrived on the summit
of this mountain, and deposited the holy hair in the cleft of the
rock, and erected the pagoda on the great boulder. From this legend
is derived the name “Kyeik-ethel-yŭh,” meaning “the object of
worship borne on the head of the hermit.” This boulder is more than
half hanging over the perpendicular face of a cliff. How it holds its
position it is indeed difficult to say, as it lies beyond the line of
the centre of gravity. The boulder is thirty feet high, and the pagoda
fifteen feet. Another legend is as follows:

Two merchants joined together and built a small pagoda, two feet high.
The next morning, when they went to pay their homage at this shrine,
they found the pagoda had increased to double their work; so, taking
this as a sign that the Nats approved of their offering, they continued
to enlarge this pile of brick; they working by day and the unseen power
by night. It now measures more than three hundred feet high. They have
also a stone, which they call an impression of Gautama’s foot. Some
of these stones are six feet long, and covered with strange figures
supposed to express their religious ideas.


                           WORSHIP OF NATS.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

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