Michael, I wonder what the monks would or have said about it? Why doesn't someone ask them? I bet they would be happy to share their views. I doubt they revere a rock. What could it represent to a Buddhist?
Bill > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:00:10 -0800 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Nogata Meteorite > > Hi Peter, > The only image I have seen of it was in a video about meteorites. > For those in the peanut gallery, it is the stone that fell May 19, > 861ad. > in Nogata, Japan, crashing through the roof of a monastery of Buddhist > monks. It is the oldest documented hammer I know of. I believe not one > single mg has ever been made available to any one or any institution. It > is highly revered by the monks, supposedly because it is considered to > have fallen from heaven. (Such reported beliefs are often > ethnocentrically > biased and/or involve misinterpretations in translation - so, who can > say > how/what the monks REALLY think of it) - in any event, it is highly > regarded and absolutely none of the material has ever been available). > In the video, a monk brought out the box in which it is kept and > the video was quite clear, as the interviewer and the monk were outside > in the courtyard. It was larger than a golf ball but smaller than a > baseball. > If you do discover a still photo of it, I would much appreciate > if > you let me know of it, as I am working on a book about hammers. Right > now all I have depictions of are mostly the 40 or 45 I have for sale. As > rare as some of them are, I would say Nogata takes the cake, as it is > TOTALLY unavailable. > Good luck, Michael > > on 1/7/07 5:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I hope someone can help me. I am looking for a photo of the Nogata >> Meteorite that I can use in a powerpoint presentation. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Peter Scherff >> ______________________________________________ >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > -- > It is difficult to get a man to understand something if his > salary depends on him not understanding it. > - Upton Sinclair > -- > What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. > It is what we know for sure that just ain't so. > - Josh Billings (but oft credited to Mark Twain) > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
