Oldest pyramid site in Asia: Koh Ker

Exploring the enigmatic Koh Ker Pyramid: Cambodia's hidden architectural marvel

Buddhist pyramids like the Maya of Mexico?

Koh Ker (Khmer ប្រាសាទកោះកេរ្ដិ៍, Brasat Kaôh Kértĕ) is a remote Buddhist archeological site in northern Cambodia about 75 miles (120 kms) from Siem Reap and the ancient site of Angkor (and Angkor Wat). It is a jungle-filled region that is sparsely populated. More than 180 sanctuaries have been found in a protected area of 31 square miles (81 square kms) [1]: 13. Only about two dozen monuments can be visited by tourists because most of the sanctuaries are hidden in the forest and the whole area is not fully de-mined. Koh Ker is the modern name for an important city of the Khmer Empire. In inscriptions the town is mentioned as Lingapura ("City of Lingams") or Chok Gargyar [2]: 70 (translated as "City of Glance" [3] or as Iron Tree Forest) [1]: 8–9. More

• Archaeologists found a smoking gun behind the end of the Maya kingdom’s reign

The Enigmatic Koh Ker Pyramid of Cambodia | Ancient Architects

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Hindu India: The Vagina Festival (video)

India, August 2025: The V4G!NA Festival and its CONTROVERSIAL rituals! 🍓 🇮🇳 Cata e Davi

The Vagina Festival, Kamakhya Temple

The Kamakhya Temple at Nilachal hills in Guwahati, Assam, Northeastern India, is one of the oldest and most revered centers of Tantric practice [3] dedicated to the Goddess Kamakhya. This Hindu temple is the center of the Kulachara Tantra Marga and the site of the Ambubachi Mela, an annual festival that celebrates the menstruation of the goddess [4]. More

• Trans folks (pandakas) are everywhere aggressively panhandling, demanding money (baksheesh). It's extortion and they will repeatedly curse the person who dares to deny them and may even get violent. It's almost as bad as India's "Eunuch Festival," but eunuch is the wrong word for the inebriated revelries (Bacchanalia/Saturnalia) that is rumored to go on in LGBTQI+, India according to the Indian press.

Vagina myths and how to fight them

(Cata e Davi) Tantrism? Menstruation? The worship of the female genitals, the vagina (yoni), and its positive energy? Entrance to the Womb: Yoni, sometimes called pindika, is an abstract or aniconic representation of the Hindu goddess Shakti. It is usually shown with linga – its masculine counterpart. Together, they symbolize the merging of microcosmos and macrocosmos, the divine eternal process of...

Quick, alert Florence Schechter and get the UK's Vagina Museum to get on this for a photo exhibit. In the meantime, Latinos Cat and Dave are going in and coming back with this report.

The Goddess of Desire (Kama)

American Tori Amos films music video for her song "God" about God in Indian Temple of the Rats

Goddess of Desire Kamakhya

Kāmākhyā, a mother goddess [1], is a Shakta Tantric deity. Considered the embodiment of Kama (sensual desire), she is regarded as the Hindu "goddess of desire" [2]. Her abode is Kamakhya Temple located in the Kamarupa region of Assam, India [3][4]. Originally a Kirata goddess, residing on the Nilachal Hills across the banks of the Brahmaputra River, west of Guwahati in the 10th-11th century temple rebuilt in 1565 CE [5], she is worshiped in a non-iconic and un-anthropomorphic form of a perpetually wet stone shaped as a yoni (womb or vagina) fed by a perennial stream [6]. More

Mt. Rushmore's secret penis statues

We're ready for the phallic installations. We'll just look down here for them (flickr.com).

White faces, okay, but what is that Buddhist-style rock cut cave back there? (vrogue.co)

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Did Skull 'n Bones meet in this rock cut chamber?

Today is the anniversary of the insulting creation of Mt. Rushmore in 1927. What do the Lakota feel?

This Anglo landmark took 14 years to complete and was meant to commemorate the nation "until the end of time."' Fox News remembers: This day in history, Oct. 4, 1927, Mount Rushmore defaces sacred Native American land in South Dakota.

What is Mt. Rushmore? In plain state South Dakota, there are only 1.5 attractions, one being the four faces of some white president of Conquerors who helped lead a slow genocide against the Indigenous populations. Tom Margie on Flickr has a butt shot.

Massive columns are phalluses, some say, with one very obvious one behind and a cabin on top.

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Was ancient man aware of his penis?

The monument to men their wangs or white domination remains unfinished, having been intended to show full frontal bodies. But one or more penises and a Buddhist temple-like cave carved right into solid rock were included. Why?

It looks like Freemason-style "secret society rituals" for Washington DC elites (Yale Skull 'n Bones, Moose Meetinghouse, Elks Lodge, Illuminati chamber?), who would be the only ones to know it was back there.

• Phallic architecture is a myth or a case of pareidolia
• Why are Theravada Buddhist Thailand and Vajrayana Buddhist Bhutan so obsessed with penises, to say nothing of India and its obsession with Shiva's lingam and Shakti's yoni at the center of most every stone temple? Nepal has a new D City named Shivaling
• See Chao Mae Tuptim penis shrine in Bang C*ck
• Phallus paintings in the Last Buddhist Kingdom in the Himalayas, Bhutan

Mt. Rushmore's secret stone penises (linga)?

Mt. Rushmore is stolen sacred Lakota land in South Dakota (theguardian.com)

Mt. Rushmore’s enormous underground quadruple PENIS (D. Willys/Slackjaw/Medium)

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A proper Hindu Shiva lingam

Q: How far underground are the sculptured phalluses, and how does one get to them?

A: The four phalluses [penises, stone Shiv-ling, Thai-Buddhist lingam] are located 200 feet below ground. To get to them, take an elevator journey entitled “The Descent to Glory.” Going down into the rich silence of the “Chiefs’ Chamber” often casts a reverential hush over guests. In the hush, many claim to hear the throbbing heartbeat of our nation [or their own sexually excited ears pounding].

Q: Why did the artist choose to work with rock hard granite?

A. Granite, a type of igneous rock, is extremely slow to erode [slow to lose its erect status], making it an excellent medium for representing the endurance and vitality of, ugh, the, ummm, nation.

So says Daniel Williams at Medium.com. Our resident historian and old timer doubts it. "That can't be true!" he insists. Williams is confabulating. We believe him. (Did this woman Eve see it?) If only there were pictures instead of rumors. No one had a flash? No cameras allowed? No low lux secret phones could be snuck in?

• FAQs: About Mount Rushmore’s enormous underground quadruple penis (by Daniel Williams | Slackjaw | Medium)
• Mount Rushmore in popular culture (Wikipedia)
• PHOTOS: activly.com looks at the hidden room behind Mt. Rushmore (questionable source)
• Secret room found on Mount Rushmore behind giant sculpture of Braham [Brahma, Brahman, Brahmin?] (vrogue.com)
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The American Indian experience

The Natives and ancient city builders in what is now the USA had giant pyramid mounds

Blackfoot, Glacier Nat'l Park, 1913

Battle for Mt. Rushmore: ‘It should be turned into something like the Holocaust Museum’

The national memorial draws millions of visitors a year – and Native Americans want their sacred site back.

Mt. Rushmore national memorial draws nearly 3 million visitors a year to Lakota land in remote South Dakota. They travel from all corners of the globe just to lay their eyes on what the National Park Service calls America’s “shrine of democracy.”

American Indian Phil Two Eagle is not opposed to the fact that the giant sculpture of American presidents is a major tourist attraction, but he thinks the park should have a different focus: oppression. More: The Guardian

• Annette McGivney (sej.org via The Guardian, UK, July 3, 2021); edited by Xochitl, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly
• Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse scraps US filming plans after outcry from Native American groups | Indigenous peoples | The Guardian
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Fortunately, US men have never been obsessed

What must the (free-) masons been thinking? The secret history of secret societies in America -- not just the world-famous megaliths of Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, and tombs in the Americas -- but the ritual architecture of the proto-USA is amazing.

Should Trump's penis-haircut be added to MR?

The pyramid mounds of Cahokia, Missouri, near the Mississippi (the second longest river in the country), where many Midwest giants are buried, kurgans (monolithic structures on energetic spots that should have been impossible to erect by Stone Age Native peoples), American Stonehenge in the Northeast, the Stonehenge underwater in a lake, the massive walls that experts try to explain away as the work of newcomers when they are long and pointless as any kind of demarcation of plots, homesteads, or property lines, the massive stone block walls that are aligned as only masons (and not Mother Nature) would bother to do... 

There are many mysteries in the country we call our own, only 75% of which has ever been surveyed by foot. (A quarter of the country has never been visited by foot to be mapped or officially surveyed, only scanned from the air, such that anyone can be in there doing anything. Sasquatches raising families? Why not).

Remember to visit the Mt. Rushmore gift shop.

The government is well aware of the giant human skeletons it continues to collect and hide at the Smithsonian institution (a collective of more than a dozen entities, not a single museum with a massive underground warehouse) and the Forest Service is well aware of the cryptids that share the U.S. with humans even if it is only three-quarters surveyed by foot.

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• Daniel Williams (medium.com); Annette McGivney (sej.org via The Guardian, 7/3/21); Pfc. Sandoval, Xochitl, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Buddhist stupas atop Hindu temples?

Buddhist stupas originated as burial mounds with statues of person inside, Central/North Asia

Eventually, the massive mounds covered treasure and funerary remains with no statues.

Kurgan and stupa, tumulus of Bourgon, France, neolithic period: spread to Europe

World-famous Buddhist stupa at Sanchi, India, revered by circumambulation (msn.com)

Buddhist Afghanistan, ancient Gandhara, land of the Scythians/Shakyian, rock cut stupa

Some stupas are hollow by design, serving as extraordinary temples and tombs, which gave rise to ever fancier pagodas in East Asia. This is an ancient vault in icy Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia

Theravada Buddhist monks admire magnificent stupa, Sanchi, India (robertharding.com)

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What are Buddhist stupas? It is clear that temple structures throughout Indonesia and Cambodia have Buddhist and Hindu elements because kings and dynasties who built them were honoring the Dharma and mythology of various blended traditions. Some temples became completely Buddhist but may have begun as Hindu or a syncretic mix of both with Jain elements as well. These three are the Dharmic religions, which were blended as Brahmins/Hindus subsumed the radical breakaway "wandering ascetic" (shramana) Buddhist and Jain movements into their staid, Brahmin priest, post-Vedic umbrella religion. Now both historical figures are categorized as avatars (incarnations) of Lord Vishnu, which is a nice way of dismissing them and anything they said against the Vedas or the views of Brahmins. Both the Buddha and Mahavira were aware of the ancient Vedas and rejected them as a source of ultimate spiritual knowledge, advocating instead direct experience of the Truth. What is the Sanatan Dharma (Eternal Doctrine), the books or the Truth those books attempt to convey? The Buddha and Mahavira were shamans and seers who could directly see the Truth and taught doctrines for others to directly see it.

Buddhist stupas found in Hindu temple of Prambanan? Indonesia’s earthquake

Modern Buddhist stupa in Sedona, Arizona, also houses relics.

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Super-ancient stupa ruins in the US? (CDA)

(PraveenMohan) Oct. 3, 2024: In the ancient Prambanan temple, a Buddhist stupa-like structure is seen on top of temple towers. One is now found lying on the ground after a strong quake brought it down to the ground. Rather than placing back, it is protected by a fence and a plaque was placed next to it. What is it doing there?

An interesting event happened in 2006. An earthquake struck Prambanan temple, and this structure, the temple's capstone, broke off and fell. Prambanan is adorned with similar structures that look like stupas (reliquaries).

However, the Javanese call them ratnas (ratanas in Pali, “gems, jewels, treasures”). What is inside them -- precious funerary relics (sharira) or common gemstones? Let's investigate.

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Mecca's Kaaba a Hindu Shiva lingam?

Are Jews in fact worshiping exact same tribal god as Muslims, an ET being in a black cube?

Was Mecca (with its central Kaaba) once a Hindu temple (ashram)? The PROOF is here!

(Harry Sahota) July 20, 2024: Was Mecca once a Hindu temple?

• Introduction: Overview of the theory and why it has gained attention.
• Historical background: Mecca's significance before the rise of Islam.
• Claims analyzed: Shaivite (Shiva) symbols and rituals: Comparing the Hajar Aswad and Shiva lingam (Shiv-ling).
• Crescent moon and Zamzam (holy water) well: Exploring symbolic connections.
• Ritual similarities: Parikrama vs. the Kaaba circumambulation and Ihram vs. Veshti
• Archaeological evidence: What does the historical record show?
• Linguistic claims: Investigating the origins of ‘Hajar Aswad’ and ‘Kaaba.’
• Conclusion: Summarizing findings and addressing the validity of the theory.
• Makkeshwar Mahadev? Mankeshwar, Maheswarnath Mandir

Keywords: Mecca Shiva Temple, Makkeshwar Mahadev, Hajar Aswad Shiva Lingam, Pre-Islamic Mecca, Kaaba Hindu Temple Theory, Archaeological Evidence Mecca, Zamzam Well Ganga, Islamic and Hindu Rituals, Shiva and Crescent Moon, Ancient Trade Routes Arabia Was Mecca Once a Hindu Temple? Transcript

So the God (Allah) lives in a cube, a black box?

Imagine a Black Cube so sacred that Jews wear it (tefillin) on their heads during ritual prayers, Muslims risk life and limb on pilgrimages to Mecca from around the Islamic world, one of the three world religions. What is in Mecca that is so precious and important? It is this cube or Kaaba/Kasbah in Arabia (which does not belong to the royal Saudi family but which the US is fond of referring to as "Saudi Arabia," which is like calling the U.S. Obama-America) covered in six million dollars' worth of gold and cloth, made of marble with a key belonging to one family to a sacred enclosure or tabernacle. The Orthodox Christians of Ethiopia (part of ancient Kush, Nubia, North Africa) have their Ark of the Covenant hidden somewhere, possibly at a known church protected by a few priests with lifelong commitments to protect it. The Jews have their temple with its inner sanctum or holy of holies with nothing but an altar where the Ark of the Covenant (an ET device protected by an electrical charge said to be God's thunderbolt ready to strike anyone with a static charge if they get too close and offend the Lord) allegedly used to be kept. 

• PHOTO: Occult Black Cube or Kaaba at the center of Mecca, Arabia (Prof. Richard/flickr.com)
• Charlene don't like it? 'Rock the Casbah' (Kaaba, Kasbah, Casablanca, Mos'que), what are The Clash on about? (americansongwriter.com)
• Is the Kaaba related to the Kabala?

Jain or Shiva Temple, Tamil Nadu, India

Jain holy site or unseen cave temple of Shiva? Sathrumalleswaram, India

(PraveenMohan) Sept. 26, 2024: There is an ancient cave temple in a remote village called Dalavanur, India. The name of this megalithic site is Sathrumalleswaram and was built in 6th or 7th century AD. Inside there is a giant lingam, which is usually a symbol of [the extraterrestrial being] Shiva. But how could ancient builders have created such a marvel?

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Ancient Aliens: ET links EXPOSED in India

Ancient Aliens: Mind-Boggling Extraterrestrial Links EXPOSED in India

(HISTORY) Are these ancient signs connections to space aliens or mere coincidences? See more in this compilation from Ancient Aliens.

• 00:00 The Shiva linga of India
• 05:33 Indian gods (devas) descend from the sky (akasha, space)
• 09:59 Surgeon receives medical powers from mystic beings
• 13:08 Sacred statue reveals alien connection

History Channel, June 23, 2023; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

"Chasing the Phallus," Bhutan (2022 doc)

Ananda (Dharma B Meditation), Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Chasing the Phallus || Bhutan documentary

(Norter) March 21, 2022. Why would the people in the last Himalayan Buddhist kingdom, now turned over by the king to a people's democracy, still continue the old custom of venerating penises or Shiva's lingam? The male member is a potent symbol of fertility, but even allegedly celibate monastics get in on the worship. Do they masturbate? Do they take on tantrikas (female assistants in sexual tantric yoga)? Do they just imagine and obsess on what they now no longer use? Is it just symbolic for virile (viriya) power?

Why do some Buddhists worship penises and wear them as a charm on a necklace?

(The Ultimate Learning Tricks) June 19, 2019. The "God of Fertility" is a phallus in Buddhist Bhutan and Thailand.

COMMENTS:

• (Don Karara) Shivling (Shiva's lingam or phallus symbol) is the same concept with a few variations.
• (Tashi Wangchuk) I heard Lama Drukpa Kinley was kind of a rebel master who went against the rigid and set Vajrayana monastic establishment, in which the Buddha's teachings seemed to be inaccessible to lay people. He shocked everyone by these types of teaching or something like that.
• (I.P. Freely) Are y'all serious? I can't imagine talking about my Willy in polite company or graffitiing it on my house or temple. This is wild, man.

David Wilcock: Pineal Gland Secrets (video)

David Wilcock via Divine Truth, 4/11/18; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

An ancient stupa/pineal with circumambulating monks and laypeople (Gandhara)

David Wilcock: Secrets of the Pineal Gland

Here David Wilcock (divinecosmos.com, Gaia TV), looking like his previous rebirth/incarnation Edgar Cayce, explains the worldwide significance of the pineal gland, our third- or divine-eye, called the dibba-cakkhu (Sanskrit deva-chakra) in Buddhism.

The Reincarnation of Edgar?

This endogenous DMT or "spirit molecule," melatonin, and serotonin dealing organ is the secret of our connection with the cosmos and various dimensions in this flux reality. This presentation may have been delivered at the post-conference Conscious Life Expo in Los Angeles a few years back. For it is hard to imagine he wore this suit elsewhere. We apologize in advance to lovers of Lord Shiva (who has a lingam and female consorts) for former pothead Dave's crass remarks. And while mentioning the Buddha, he fails to mention the more obvious Buddhist symbol, the stupa or sacred reliquary.

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Modern stupa in Gotemba, Shizouka, Japan (wiki)

Valentine's Day: Cupid is the devil Mara (sutra)

John D. Ireland (accesstoinsight.org), Padhana Sutra: "The Great Struggle" (Sn 3.2); PRI; Cozmo El; Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Dharma Meditation Initiative - Pasa Dharma - Punx - Disclosure Project - MARC UCLA

 

Cupid (Kama-deva) is a "devil"

The Buddha remembered: "When, near the Nerañjara river, I exerted myself in meditation for attaining to security from bondage (yogakkhema, a name for nirvana), there came speaking words of compassion Namuci*:

• *"He who does not let go [his hold over beings easily]" is a name for Mara, the Tempter, the Killer, the Evil One, the Dark One.

"'You are emaciated and ill-looking, near to death! A thousand parts of you belong to death, and only a fraction of you is alive. Live, good sir! It is better to live! Living you may perform many meritorious deeds (good karma).

The "real" St. Valentine was no patron of love (The Conversation, Feb. 14, 2018)

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What's better than being bad?

"From practicing celibacy and tending the sacrificial fire much merit is made. But what is obtained from striving [in meditation]? It is difficult to enter the path of exertion, it is difficult to do, difficult to maintain.'"
 
Mara spoke these words while standing in the presence of the Buddha, the "Awakened One." To Mara speaking in this way, the Buddha replied:
 
"You who are a friend of the negligent, O Evil One. For what reason have you come here? Those who still have use for merit [because they are not yet enlightened and liberated], Mara may consider worthwhile addressing.

"I have confidence and energy and wisdom. Being thus bent on striving, why do you ask me to live? This wind will wither the currents of the rivers; why should not my exertion dry up even the blood? When the blood dries up, the bile and phlegm wither.

"Lust" (Raquel Welch) in 1967's Bedazzled

"On the wasting away of the flesh, my mind becomes more and more serene. And my mindfulness, wisdom, and concentration are established more firmly.

"In me, who abides enduring such an extreme experience, the mind does not long for sensual pleasures. Behold the purity of a being!"

Who/what in the hell is Cupid?

Hey, STFU. I'm the Greek god Eros anew

CUPID comes from its verb cupere (Latin "to desire"). Three derived nouns have been passed down into English with minimal modification: Cupiditas meant "yearning" and "desire," which English borrowed as "cupidity," which originally in the 15th century was synonymous with "LUST." (Another meaning of "cupidity," now archaic, is "greed").

Latin cupido started out as a near-synonym of cupiditas, but it came to stand for the specific personification of carnal desire, the counterpart of Greek Eros (the erotic "god"); this is the source of our familiar and rather domesticated (Roman god) Cupid. A strengthened form of cupere (concupiscere, meaning "to desire ardently) yielded the noun concupiscentia in the Late Latin of the Christian church.

I'm not impressed. Get it out of my face!

English concupiscence, which means "sexual desire," comes from this form. Cupidity's origin and etymology is therefore from the Latin cupiditat-, cupiditas — more at covet, which led to Middle English cupidite and Anglo-French cupidité. (Derived from Merriam-Webster.com).

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• The Buddha's Encounters with Mara the Tempter In the typical style of this Indian Cupid, the first weapons used are the five flower-arrows. When they fail Måra thinks: “He is not worthy of my flower-shaft, nor my arrow 'gladdener,' nor the sending of my daughter Rati (to tempt him); he deserves alarms, rebukes, and blows from these gathered armies of demons.

Mara's Armies

Lord Shiva Turns Cupid/Kama-Deva to Ashes (Madan Bhasma/metmuseum.org)

1. "Sensual desire is your first army
2. the second is called discontent
3. the third is hunger-and-thirst
4. the fourth craving
5. the fifth sluggishness-and-laziness
6. the sixth fear
7. the seventh indecision
8. and the eighth stubbornness and disparagement of others: gain, fame, honor, unmerited prestige (wrongly acquired), praise of oneself, and despising others.

"These, Namuci, are your armies, the striking forces of the Dark One.*

• Kanha, the "Dark One" (Sanskrit, Krishna), is another name for Mara. He is India's version of Cupid (Kamadeva) and personifies sensual passions. He carries a lute (vina), mentioned at the close, with which he captivates beings by his playing. His other equipment includes a bow, arrows, a noose, and a hook.

"A lazy, cowardly person cannot overcome them. But by conquering them one gains bliss. I wear muñja-grass*!

• *Indian warriors used to wear a tuft of a certain variety of grass called muñja on their head or headgear, to indicate that they were prepared to die in battle and determined not to retreat.

Representations of the Buddha Gautama

"Shame on life here in this world! It is better for me to die in battle than to live defeated.

"Some wandering ascetics and Brahmins are not seen (exerting themselves) here, so immersed are they (in sensual worldliness). They are unaware of the path those of perfect conduct walk.

"Seeing the surrounding army ready and Mara mounted (on his elephant), I am going out to fight so that he may not move me from my position.

Under the Buddha's bodhi tree, India

"This army of yours, which the world together with the devas is unable to subdue, that I will destroy with wisdom, [shatter] like an unbaked clay-bowl with a stone.

"Having mastered the mind and firmly established mindfulness, I shall wander from country to country guiding many disciples.

"And these disciples will be diligent and energetic in practicing this teaching, the teaching of one free of sensual craving. And they will reach where, having reached, one no more grieves."
 

Who's as beautiful as Barbie? Valeri-Devi

Mara responded: "For seven years I followed the Blessed One step by step but did not find an opportunity to defeat that mindful Awakened One.

"A crow flew around a stone the [whitish] color of fat thinking: 'Can we find here something tender? May it be something to eat?'
 
"Not finding anything edible the crow left that place. As with the crow and the stone, we leave Gotama [the Buddha], having approached and become disheartened."

• *Māra Devaputra is the deva of the highest world in the Sensual Sphere (Kama Loka), who considers himself the God of this sphere (which includes the human plane that is in no way limited to earth) tries to prevent the Buddha from finding the escape that is liberation from the otherwise endless cycle of rebirth during his struggle for enlightenment.

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