Magical Lady of Ireland | Biddy Early👸

Biddy Early was a well-known Famous herbalist lived in County Clare of Ireland. She belonged to a poor family. She baptised with "Bridget Connor", but she always called by the name of her mother's maiden "Early".

During her younger age she used to communicate with fairies and enjoyed her life. Her mother learned some medical cures from good people and were passing all her knowledge by teaching biddy. At 16, Biddy lost her parents and moved from that place and started working in a landlord's house.

After so many struggles, she got married for the first time. Then she started treating people with her medical herbs and became a fame all over the world. She did four marriages in her lifetime.

Biddy Early's Magical Cure

Biddy started collecting the herbs at the early morning before sunrise. She believed that dew formed when the nature transformed the moonlight to daylight left some medicinal and spiritual powers in it.

Biddy Early always had a bright blue bottle with her. She used the liquid present in the bottle for medical cures. A small well nearer to biddy's cottage contained some sort of magical holy waters. She used that holy water, herbs made a mixture and drop inside the blue bottle. This liquid cured many diseases of people even biddy treated animals too.

      The well near biddy's cottage believed to have mysterious powers.

Struggles Faced By Biddy

Though biddy's fame liked throughout the world, some priests, landlords jealous of her success. They accused biddy charging witchcraft with her and put her infront of court ennis in 1865. Later they forced to withdraw the case due to lack of evidence and protest of many people.

Final Rites of Biddy Early

The arrival of blue bottle of biddy is still unclear. Some studies reported that it was the gift from her mother before death. Some believed that the fairies given to the biddy. Before her death in 1874, she asked well known priest to throw the blue bottle into the river. Afterwards he fulfilled her wish and later the bottle not found anywhere.

Biddy Early don't ask money for her medical service instead she asked people to compensate with whisky, alcohols, poitin and some sort of offerings. Therefore still many people visit her cottage and offers wines, litting candles, placing coins on the memory of biddy early.

Around biddy's cottage many wild plants were grown now. They are elder, hawthorn etc..these herbs keeps away the evil spirits.

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Temple of Million Beer Bottles

Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew is called as "Temple of million bottles". It is a Buddhist temple located in Khun Han district of Sisaket, Thailand. The glowing emerald view of this temple is created by constructing with recycling beer bottles.

Idea of Construction using Beer Bottles

Few years ago, Heineken Beer Company wanted to update their beer bottle appearance so they thought to replace the old bottles. After knowing this, the local monks of the area decided to collect all the empty beer bottles for recycling. They asked the people in the district to deposit the empty bear bottle. They started collected in 1984 for the purpose of building a buddhist temple.

Project of Million Beer Bottles 

At the beginning, the monks used 100 recycling bottles for trial and created a wall. The magnificent look of the wall attracted the people. Afterwards, many people came forward to deposit their bottles. In addition to that the local government also agreed with their unique idea and provided them many bottles for construction.

The temple building was constructed using Concrete for protection. The combination of heineken green beer bottles and local chang brown bottles were used. This brought an extraordinary finish to the temple.The construction of this temple took almost two years. Around 1.5 million bottles were used during its construction.

Even the surface of the temple is also made using beer bottles. The entrance of the temple is fixed with glass door silhoutted with a woman.

The beer bottle caps were recycled and used for making large buddha statue. Inside at the center of the temple Buddha statue was placed, infront of it monks little statues were built.

After finishing the temple architecture, the monks continued to collects many bottles and started creating Crematorium, prayer halls, tourist washrooms, water tower around the temple and small hostages. 

In 2009, around 20 buildings were constructed using beer bottles. Later this temple is refered as a Sustainable Architecture by the government. This temple is eco-friendly with its appearance. The monks joined together did a great job by recycling the waste bottles and enlightened its beauty.

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Have you ever wonder how "Four-Leaf Clover" turned into Lucky Charm✨

Majority of us always expected to experiance the great happenings in everything we do in our life, having some fortune that brings happiness. Luck is an amazing key that evolved many generations ago. One believed luck completely rather than their ownself.

Luck of the Irish

The Four-leaf Clover is a kind of clover plant species belongs to Tripollium Repens. The growth of this clover largely seen in the small country, Ireland. It is a rare clover species that exist one among 10,000 clover plants. Generally clover has only three leaf(Shamrock). So it is believed that the clover which has four-leaf brings good luck. The chances of finding the four-leaf clover largely in the green hills of ireland, hence it is called as "The Luck of Irish".

Reason for the growth

The three clover leaf indicates love,faith,hope. The growth of fourth leaf in the clover indicates luck. Therefore, people loving to have the four-leaf clover. According to some researches this fourth leaf may grow undergoes mutation with gene of another clover. Some studies have been reported that it could be grown under proper environment with good soil fertility.

The Real Lucky Charm

🍀 Not all the clover species brings luck   rather than four-leafand clover. It looks like three leaf are in same size and the fourth leaf is slightly smaller in size and differ in its shade. 

🍀 Many people working hard trying to find this clover. One who get the four-leaf clover, will be very lucky.

🍀 By the good vibes getting from this lucky charm made people, doing mini clover leaf crafts, putting four-leaf designs in the jewels and used for many purposes.

 🍀 The childrens in the middle ages believed that the act of bringing the four-leaf clover will given the chances to see the fairies in real. 

 🍀 It is also interesting to know that, one who brings the four-leaf clover will definitely met their valentine on that day. 

 🍀 In Christian Bible version, it is mentioned that after getting walked away from the paradise, Eve(The mother of mankind) took the four-leaf clover with her inorder to regain the beautiful memories in the paradise.

 🍀 Druids(Members of priest class) took four-leaf clover with them when they went to fought with the bad evil spirits.

  🍀 Its very important that the clover with five-leaf brings bad luck.so it is advised to avoid five-leaf clover when you find it.

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1200 Rakan Statues with unique expressions😜😊😒😱🙌🙇 | Otagi-Nenbutsuji

Otagi Nenbitsu-ji is a Buddhist Temple located in Kyoto, Japan. This temple is not well known to many people in the world. This temple occupies a very small area hidden behind the Arashiyama mountain. The interesting feature of this temple that attracts most of its visitors is that, it contains 1200 Rakan(disciples of Buddha) statues, each having unique facial expressions.

Fortunes and Unfortunes of Otagi Nenbutsu-ji

Otagi Nenbutsu-ji Temple was built in the year 766 by the great Emperor of kyoto, Shotoku. Sevaral years later in the Heian Period, due to the floods of river kamo caused huge destruction to the temple and completely washed out with overflow. Later this temple was re-established by sengan Naigu in 1920, but unfortunately again  it was completely vanished in 1950 by typhoons.

Reconstruction with unique expressions

In 1955, Kocho Nishimura, a buddhist Sculpture familiar with rakan statues, a monk, who started working in the project of re-establishing the beauty back for the third time. Though Nishimura is a great sculpture, he didn't made any statue belongs to otagi instead, he taught people came to visit the temple. He challenged his students to create a unique styled statue with face expression not similar with other rakan statue.

Each student created one rakan statue and behind each statue having the name of the student who craved it. In 1980's almost 1200 students were trained for sculpting by Nishimura. At the centre of the temple big statue of Buddha is placed.

Reason for 1200 Rakan Statues

At first, only 500 rakan statues were built. During the death of the God Buddha, only 500 disciples were there with him, but after 100 years 700 new disciples came to join and started their teachings. Because of this participation, many people requested to made more rakan statues. Later the remaining statues were built.

Best Time in Otagi Nenbutsu-ji Temple

To the visitors of otagi, its a challenge to pick a statue similar to their faces. They enjoy there by watching each rakan. Rather than the crowded areas, this place makes visitors calm by its pleasant display. Like throwing a coin in a fountain, some people placing a coin on the rakan by honouring their loved ones.

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Ferryman of Hades | Charon's Obol

Charon's obol is an ancient funeral method strictly followed from the 5th century by the Greek people. Charon, the ferryman of Hades(God of underworld) who has taken the souls of dead people to the underworld of spirits.

The term "obol" refers to the ancient coins which is used during the funeral by placing them at the mouth of the dead people.

Greek Mythology

After the death of people, the funeral was conducted by placing an obol in/on the mouth of the dead. The Greek people believed that placing an obol was the charity offered to the charon. In Greek mythology, the coin was taken as an entry fee hence the charon took the souls of dead people. The journey of charon with all souls was believed to be done with charon's boat across river styx.

 River styx is one among the major five rivers of underworld. This river separates the world of living and world of dead. By crossing this river charon admitted all souls to the world of dead. If charon not getting any obol then the souls wouln't taken in ferryman's boat and remains wander in the world of living. Inorder to fulfill an unconditional love on those who had died, one or more obol was placed at the mouth or eyes of the dead.

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Glory or Death | Tale of Minotaur👿

Its always exciting to know about the tale mixed with love, betrayal, sacrifice, passion. The story of the huge Minotaur is quite with the taste of love in one side and on the other side it has some bitter truth.

Curse of Poseidon

Over 1000 years ago, the island of crete was successfully ruled by the powerful king, Minos. He built navy for the purpose of sailing. Though he was a great king, he failed to made correct decision sometimes. Once in an happening, he supposed to sacrifice a snow-white bull to poseidon, instead of killing the white bull, he replaced with another one. By knowing this, poseidon made angry with him and cursed him had a beast like baby with bull head and tail with human body, it is later known as Minotaur.

King Minos and his Labyrinth

                King minos palace at knosses

         Art of the Palace of King Minos and              labyrinth

King minos wanted to built a wonderful architectural palace with the help ofof passionate architect. Then he asked Daedalus, the great architect of athens. Later, daedalus and his son icarus made a plan and finish the architectural palace. At the childhood of beast, Minotaur is not likely to be scary bt then it became worse and killed many lives. By knowing this king Minos decided to hide the minotaur from the people so he asked daedalus to built a large maze(Labyrinth) with dangerous hurdles hence the minotaur couldn't find the way to exit.

Battle of Minotaur and Theseus

After the construction of labyrinth, the king minos asked minotaur to live inside the maze. The minotaur agreed to the king with the condition that he needed 8 men and 8 women for his hunger. For the sake of people, king didn't denied his condition and asked volunteers of athens to sacrifice their lives. 

Sacrificing men and women occured every 9 years, at the third time of this incident, the prince of Athens, Theseus volunteerily came forwad and ready to fought with the minotaur.

Prince Theseus promised his father to return back with white sails if he won the battle. If he died, then return with black sails. After reaching the island of crete, Theseus met king Minos and his beautiful daughter Ariadne. At the first sight, Ariadne fell in love with the beauty of prince Theseus and wanted to help him. She gave the roll of thread to the Theseus to set a path in the dark labyrinth.

By the help of Ariadne, Theseus finally won the battle and killed minotaur. Later he returned back to the exit of labyrinth by the trace of threads. Later he left crete without the knowledge of Ariadne. This betrayal made her in vain. Therefore at the end, the life of many athens were saved by the prince theseus by defeating the huge monster, minotaur.

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Creation of wonder by Human error ~ Fly Geyser

Fly Geyser(Fly Ranch Geyser) is a small geothermal geyser ejects constant hot springs at the temperature of 200°C. It is located at the edge of Black Rock Desert, in Nevada. This strange giant cone-shaped mountain was created by the fault of people who involved in the "Burning Man" project in 1916.

Fly Geyser

🍂 Fly Geyser featured into combination of red and green colour due to the presence of thermophilic algae(kind of algae capable of alive in extreme high temperatures), which flourishes in moist condition resulting in multi-coloured formation.

🍂 Fly Geyser surrounded by travertine, a white or cream-coloured sedimentary rock formed by the precipitation of calcium carbonates at the surface of water.

Burning Man Project

🍂 In 1916, The Burning Man Project was initiated with drilling the well to provide water for irrigation, but later the project were abandoned due to several reasons. After one year, first geyser was formed like small cone shaped mountain with 12 feet(3 metres high).

🍂 In 1964, again the project was started by drilling the second well at the same site nearer to the first geyser. The results of geothermal energy of water(Temp 200°C) remains same as the first time and not enough for the requirements, Hence it was cancelled.

🍂 After the cancellation of project, they reported to capping the hole, but somewhere at the left corner failed to seal properly which resulted in deposition of minerals(Calcium Carbonates and silica) under the hole formed into a strange mountain which largely ejects geothermal water through the holes. Now the height of whole geyser is the range of 25-30 feet.

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Kitayama Maruta | Daisugi Technique

"Daisugi Technique", an ancient forestery technique implemented in 14th century and today followed by many countries. At first it was discovered in Kitayama, a small village in the Japanese city, Kyoto.

              💢 "Dai" ~ "Table"

                                 "Sugi" ~ "Cedar" 💢

The planting of ceder trees produces large number of glossy, round, fine, straight, thin, knot-less lumbers. One cedar tree will produce upto hundred number of "shoots". They started using this daisugi technique in order to reduce the larger plantations. Instead of planting large number of seeds, they made the growth of the tree one above the another.

During harvesting it is easy to cut the lumber without cutting the whole tree. To ensure the proper growth, it could be harvested once in every three years and the whole tree would be cut down once in 30 years. This tree can grow and protect its lumber upto 100 years. In order to maintain a knot-less lumber, the foresters often cut the extra small branches.

           This tree is quite famous in Kitayama vilage, therefore the people lived in there used to call the lumber as "kitayama maruta". Later, this technique was followed by many countries in different names. The foresters might used this technique using cedar tress, it can also applicable to other trees for plantation. Majority of furnitures prefers cedar woods that's the reason behind its vast productions.

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MARVEL OF BELIZE

                   Massive blue sinkhole

The Great Blue hole is one of the country's most notable attractions found at the center of lighthouse reef in the city of Bileze. "Jacques Costeau", the  French explorer discovered this natural wonder in the early 1970's. He revealed his discovery through his television series "The undersea  world of Jacques Costeau".

Blue hole at the center of lighthouse coral reef

The massive sinkhole measures around 1000ft in diameter and 125m(400feet) in depth. The Blue hole is in the shape of perfect circle with bright blue colour contrast to the aquamarine blue enclosed almost with the coral reefs.

Formation of Bluehole

Deposits of limestones forming stalactites

The projective blue hole at the Belize is formed 15,000 years ago due to earth movements. It is clear that the sea having swallowed hole. The caves found in the glacial ice period have been collapsed due to the rise of sea level, results in submerging of caves into the sea produced many stalactites and stalagmites deep down under the caves and now shown as a massive sinkhole.

               Best Scuba diving spot

This Blue hole promotes best tourism by its majestive view. It suites best for scuba diving, only for trained divers because of its depth. Apart from the wonders, it is also dangerous. It is reported that, at the depth of the bluehole, there exists some giant sharks which is dangerous likely to make us its prey. Also diverse and abundant marine species found inside the sinkhole.

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