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Kyaiktiyo Pagoda (r)
Subject: Re: Kyaiktiyo Pagoda
>From: PMSCHUH@xxxxxxxx (Paul Morgan Schuh)
>Newsgroups: soc.culture.burma
>Subject: Re: Kyaiktiyo Pagoda
>Date: 1 Feb 1994 06:41:49 GMT
>In <duerksen-310194122824@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> duerksen@xxxxxxxxx writes:
>> Is this the same pagoda that resides atop a large bolder, that is said
>> that the bolder doesn't actually touch the ground, and that many years
>> ago (before man became so evil) it was high enough off the ground
>> that people could walk under it. Even today Burmese that I know tell me
>> that you can still pass a rope or string under it.
>I personally have not heard of that story. Anyone else?
Yes- I have heard (the legen?) the above story but not people could walk
under it. It was said to be as high as a hen could sit bewteen the rocks.
Then, as people (humans?) got corrupted, the rock began to descend. That is
the story I've heard when I was young while I was in Burma. If that was
true, it would have fallen off the base-rock by now, knowing how SLORC treat
the public:-)
When father took us there when I was 12 or 13 and I recall some people
attaching two stones to the ends of the string and passing it underneat
the rock.
It was a pretty good hike up the the hills (I don't know how many) but
nothing compare to Yosemite's Half Dome or Mt. Whitney.
Coban