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Thursday, September 2, 2021
What did Jesus REALLY look like? (video)
Photo of the Scythian Buddha?
There is an alleged "photograph of the Buddha." It is a beautiful picture of a beautiful man sitting under a tree in a forest, but it has pretty much been debunked as a fake because, although it looks like him, it does not in all places look like a photograph. Some parts seem painted. Then a giant mural by an Italian artist was revealed as the source of a close-up photograph of that portion of the mural. However, did the artist see the picture and paint it into his mural, or did the mural get photographed and promoted as an actual snapshot?
(MLord andGod) March 23, 2021: Eyewitness saw Jesus Christ and described him in a written letter that still exists and can be examined in the U.S. Library of Congress? Unlikely. One would think this would be much more famous if it were true, given that the only biblical description of the central figure is written about a dream in Revelation by a visionary who did not see the physical historical person just a dream of a god who was Black with wool like hair and skin of burnt bronze, an African. The Letter of Lentulus describes Jesus of Nazareth in great detail to Roman Emperor Ceasar in Rome, giving him chestnut hair and making him a tall Nordic type rather than the shorter, darker Black Egyptian or Israelite he would have been.
(Metatron, July 25, 2021) What did Jesus REALLY look like? Ethnicity, hair, skin, eyes, body type. Let's take a methodical, systematic, rigorous, and intellectually honest approach to figuring out these questions.
We know what the Buddha looked like, even though there was a long history of not making human images of him (as in the case of Islam's Mohammed) in proto-India. But in his own land, Gandhara/Scythia/Bactria/Shakya Land, there was no such injunction. His people made the first anthropomorphic representations. They appear in Gandharan (Greco-Buddhist) art from Afghanistan (particularly in Bamiyan and Mes Aynak) and Pakistan around Taxila (Takkasila), formerly the NW frontier of India.
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