2009
Denmark
On
February 8, 2009, I left LA for Copenhagen. My book Forbidden
Archeology (abridged version) has been published in the Danish language.
So the publisher invited me for a weeklong lecture tour. I lectured at the
University of Aarhus. Aarhus is Denmark’s second
largest city. My lectures at the University caused some controversy. Some
university professors protested, saying I should not have been allowed to
speak there. My antievolutionary views were unwelcome. So much for
intellectual freedom! Anyway, the protests were without effect, and my lectures
took place as scheduled. One of the city’s leading newspapers published a
big article about my visit, with the headline “Is This
Man Dangerous?” That is the kind of publicity I like most! Then I gave
a couple of public lectures in Copenhagen. They were well attended. At one
of them, during the question session, an archeologist from the University
of Copenhagen gave one of the stock objections to the evidence for extreme
human antiquity that I had given in my lecture. He suggested the evidence
COULD have been found in very ancient layers because it fell down into them
through some fissure. Of course, anything is possible. Anything could have
happened. But to make such objections something more than just speculations,
one would have to provide some actual evidence that in the particular place
in question, there was in fact some fissure, by which some human artifact
of bone could have come down from some higher more recent level into an ancient
layer of rock. I pointed out that the original discoverers, themselves professional
archeologists or geologists, had considered such possibilities and ruled
them out, after direct inspection of the site. So, yes, anything is POSSIBLE.
“For example, “ I said to the skeptical archeologist, “it is POSSIBLE that
you are a robot programmed by some skeptics society to broadcast a prerecorded
objection to my lecture.” The audience laughed, and I won that exchange.
Lecturing
before a rapt audience at the University of Aarhus
India
Tour
In honor of this year being the 200th
anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication
of his book The Origin of Species, I recently
completed a lecture tour of India (March 14 to April 16),
in the course of which I presented lectures based on my book Human
Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin’s Theory. I gave
talks at over 50 universities and scientific institutions in cities all over
India. The tour started in Pune, where I spoke at
the University of Pune and several other institutions. As a result,
science professors at the University of Pune are inviting me to a conference
on evolution that will take place toward the end of the year in India. From
there I went to Belgaum, in Karnataka state. I spoke at several
institutions there. One of them was a huge ultramodern private hospital and
medical college. In front of the hospital, in a nice garden, was a large
statue of Dhanvantari, the avatar of Vishnu who was a master
of medical science. The hospital features both western and ayurvedic treatment
centers, and research into ayurvedic medicine is also carried out there in
the associated medical college.
Michael
Cremo participated in traditional lamplighting ceremonies before his lectures
at Indian Colleges and Institutions
From Belgaum I went to Bangalore,
where I spoke at the Indian Institute of Science, one of India’s
top science schools, and also spoke to research scientists of the Defence
Research and Development Organization (DRDO) at their Banglalore complex.
From Pune to Belgaum and Belgaum to Bangalore, I traveled by overnight trains,
in the Two Tier AC class. Fortunately, devotee organizers of my tour were
kind enough to accompany me to the train stations and meet me when I arrived.
Speaking
before a full lecture hall at the Birla Institute
From Bangalore I went to Birla Institute
of Technology and Science in Pilani, Rajasthan. The Birlas
are a family of wealthy Indian industrialists. I flew from Bangalore
to Delhi. The Bangalore airport is brand new and is up to the best
international standards. I was met at the Delhi airport by a representative
of BITS
Pilani and a university car. The drive from Delhi to Pilani took about five
hours. BITS is in a quite remote region of Rajasthan, near the small
town of Pilani. I wondered about that. But I was told that Pilani was the
ancestral home of the Birla family, and the family patriarch had wanted to
establish a college there. When I arrived, I was given a suite in the campus
guesthouse, and met with some of the professors there. I was given
a campus tour. The elder Birla has erected a big temple to Sarasvati,
goddess of learning, on the campus. My formal lectures were well attended
and well received, and many people purchased copies of my book Human
Devolution. At BITS, as at most of the institutions at which I spoke,
formal lectures were preceded and followed by private meetings with the heads
of the institutions, or heads of departments. Before lectures there were
typically some Vedic formalities, sometimes involving the lighting
of a sacred lamp, prayers to Sarasvati, garlanding of the speaker, and offering
of some gift to the speaker. In addition to the formal lectures, I gave one
informal talk at an evening gathering of faculty and students who are
members of the Hare Krishna movement. The gathering took place at
the home of one of the professors, and another morning talk took place
at the house where the students meet for their morning program before going
to classes. While at BITS, I also spoke at the nearby Central Electronic
Engineering Institute. The CEERI is part of the Indian national government’s
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research,
which is a consortium of over 30 top government funded science and engineering
research institutions.
The
Ganges at Rishikesh
From
BITS a university car took me to Karnal, where I met some Hare
Krishna members who are establishing a branch of the Bhaktivedanta
Institute there. Next morning we went by train to Chandigarh, the
capital of the states of Haryana and Punjab. It is a designed
city, like Brasilia, capital of Brazil, or Washington DC, capitol of the US.
I gave lectures there at several institutions, including the Anthropology
Department of the University of Punjab.
Lecturing
at the University of Punjab
During some free time on the weekend, the tour organizers took me
to Kuruksetra, where Krishna spoke the Bhagavad-gita,
and also to Rishikesh and Haridwar. The next stop for lectures
was Amritsar, in Punjab. I spoke at three universities there.
Punjab, and especially Amritsar, is mostly Sikh. So I was a little
worried about how they might receive my “Vedic” alternative to Darwin’s
theory. But it seems their cosmology is compatible with what I was proposing.
One morning during my stay, my tour organizers took me to the Golden
Temple, one of the most sacred places for Sikhs. Then it was back to
Chandigarh for more lectures there. Then I went to Karnal, where I spoke
at another research institution associated with the CSIR, and then I went
to Delhi, where I spoke at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Delhi and the Delhi Engineering College. During a couple of free
days in Delhi, my tour organizers took me to the sacred city of Vrindavan.
The
Golden Temple at Amritsar
From Delhi, I took an overnight train
to Varanasi, where I spoke at the Banaras Hindu University.
As in most cases, the travel expenses were paid by the university. There
is a community of professors and students there who are associated
with the Hare Krishna movement. As in most cases, I was an official
guest of the university, and was given accommodation in one of the university
guest houses. I also received, as I did in other cases, an honorarium from
the university. It was nice to get paid for speaking against Darwinism.
During a free morning, some of the faculty of the university took me to
nearby Sarnath, which is where Buddha began his preaching
mission. I spoke at the medical college at BHU. I had some long talks with
the director. BHU also has an ayurvedic medical college, in addition to the
western medical college. Actually, the founder of the university, back in
the early 20th century, had wanted ONLY an ayurvedic medical college and
hospital on the campus, and no western medical college.
From
Varanasi, I went by train to the National Institute
of Technology at Tatanagar in the newly created Jharkhand state.
In Tatanagar there is a big Tata steel factory. I was a little worried about
going to the NIT in Tatanagar. From Tatanagar I went by train to Rourkela
in Orissa, where I spoke at another National Institute of Technology.
Then I went to Bhubaneshwar in Orissa, where I gave
my final lectures of the tour at some universities and colleges there. Then
I went to Kolkata, and flew from Kolkata back to LA.
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2008
Russia
Public Lecture in Vladivostok
September
2008 Last year, I did a lecture and media tour of Russia,
and I was invited back again by the tour organizers to go to cities
that I missed last time. The tour is centered on my book
Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative
to Darwin's Theory, which has been published in Russian. I arrived
in Russia in mid September and attended an annual week-long festival with
three to four hundred Russian Hare Krishna devotees at Krinnitsa,
on the Russian Black Sea Coast. From the old days of
socialism, there are sports camps on the Black Sea. The devotees took over
one of the camps on an isolated part of the Black Sea coast. The camp is
quite big, with residence halls, theatres, lecture halls,
etc. I gave a series of talks on science and Krishna consciousness.
Then I went to Vladimir, in north central Russia, to rest for a couple
of days, and to meet with one of the main tour organizers. The tour officially
began with some lectures in Rybinsk. Rybinsk is a small industrial
center on the Volga River. It is one of the centers of the Russian aviation
industry. Engines for military and civilian aircraft are manufactured there.
There was a Gulag here where Alexander Solzhenitsyn stayed for
awhile. Many of my lectures here were organized by the town historian,
who, although an atheist, is a big fan of my work.
On October 6, I spoke at an institute for educators,
to an audience of education teachers and officials. I was told that a group
of young women students (who called themselves "the evil
philosophers") were going to come, and that I should expect
some fireworks. They did come, but appeared satisfied with the talk, and the
evil philosophers even asked to have their picture taken
with me. In addition to talking about the book, I also made recommendations
for education policy. I proposed that a generalized theistic alternative to
Darwinism be allowed in the curriculum, taking 5 percent
of the textbook pages in biology. This would reflect the
reality in the scientific world (that the vast majority of scientists accept
the Darwinian theory, with a small minority opposed). And it would also
respect the value of intellectual freedom and diversity. That evening there
was a public lecture in one of the Houses of Culture in Rybinsk.
This is one of the nice legacies of the socialist era. In every
town of any size, one finds these institutions, which
have nice halls for lectures and performances.
The next day, I spoke to the faculty of the philosophy department at
one of the aviation technology schools (Rybinsk Academy of Aviation
Science). They focus on philosophy of science. The local historian
who organized the lecture gave me some background. At first, the
school offered to have me speak only to the philosophy faculty (thinking
the students might be too vulnerable to my ideas). Then
, he said, they agreed to have me speak to both the faculty and students.
But on the day we got there, the professor with whom he had been
negotiating was not there (sick). And we were told I would only be
speaking to the faculty of philosophy. The head of the philosophy
department Victor G. Chernikov, presided, and five of his staff of
teachers were also there, along with a few other people. So it
was
a private seminar. I adapted my presentation to the audience, and
at the end, as usual, put forward my proposal to give five percent
of the textbook pages in biology to a generalized theistic alternative
to evolution. I again stressed that this would reflect the reality in
the scientific world and the value of intellectual freedom better than
the present complete exclusion of alternatives to evolution from the
curriculum. Chernikov said he agree with my proposal of five percent
of the textbook pages-but no more than five per cent he added with
a smile.
Then he said he was going to ask me two questions. The
first was a technical one about how I would accommodate the hominids
recognized by science in my system. I replied that I accepted their existence
and proposed that humans like us coexisted with them, as indicated in the
Vedic (with all due qualifications) literature. Yes, I
know this Vedic idea, he said. I have read the Russian edition of your
book Forbidden Archeology. He said the next
question was going to be less serious. He said, "If as you say human beings
are composed of matter, mind, and consciousness, then why are so many people
in Russia so unintelligent?" I quickly replied with a Russian phrase I had
picked up in my reading (in Russian) of Gogol's novel Dead Souls.
"Chyort znayet," I said (the Devil knows). He got a chuckle out of that.
In the end, Chernikov and each member of the philosophy
staff
purchased copies of Human Devolution and had them signed.
Actually, I felt good that I had spoken only to the
philosophy faculty and not to the faculty and students.
The next stop that day was an interview with a reporter from the main
local newspaper. Then I taped an interview in the studio of a radio
program (one wall of the office was strangely decorated
with the Civil War flag of the American Confederate states).
Interviewing on Radio
Mayak
From
Rybinsk I went to Moscow. On October 11,
I was
interviewed on the radio network Mayak, one of the most
popular in Russia. I was interviewed live by two of the most
popular hosts of the show. The topics were my books Forbidden
Archeology and Human Devolution. Mayak means Lighthouse.
It was a totally positive interview, taking up a whole hour on the
show. About 20 million people listen to the show. On Sunday, I
went to one of the Hare Krishna temples in Moscow. A reporter
for the newspaper Arguments and Facts (Argumenti
i Fakti),
one of the big all Russia papers, came to hear me talk. Also
a delegation of researchers from the organization Kosmopoisk,
a group dedicated to the study of unusual phenomena, came
to meet me. The group has chapters all over Russia. . They
look into things like ancient mysteries, UFOs, paranormal
phenomena of all kinds, and things like that. They number
among their members a Russia cosmonaut who was recently
launched up to the international space station. They like my
work.That night I gave a talk about my book Human Devolution
at the temple. The audience was mostly young people and
intellectuals. During the next week, I was interviewed by
the REN tv network, which usually ranks number three
among the networks there. I also taped a short interview for
the documentary film maker Arin Petrosian. He invited me
to attend a meeting of writers at the Russian Writers Club
that evening. An author was introducing a book of poems.
So I decided to go for the event. I was introduced to the
audience, and invited to give a short talk about my own
books. The audience was a mixture of academics, poets,
authors, and researchers of unusual phenomena. After
that I went to the Peoples Friendship University, to meet
with graduate students of Dr. Alexei Maslov, a professor
of history there. Introducing me he said that there is a
need for alternative views on human origins, and that I
was presenting one of the most intriguing and provocative
of such alternatives.
From
Moscow, I flew to Krasnodar, on the Black Sea in South Russia.
There I gave several public lectures . Then I flew to Vladivostok,
in the Russian Far East. There I gave talks on my book Human Devolution:
A Vedic Alternative to Darwin’s Theory at two institutes connected
with the Government Far East University. One of them was an institute
of electrical engineering. The director of the institute likes my work,
and had me give a lecture to professors and students there. He likes things
that have to do with alternative realities. He told me that because of his
position as head of the institute he can do such things. There is no one
looking over his shoulder. I also gave two well attended lectures for the
general public, at an auditorium on the Vladivostok waterfront in the central
city.
From
Vladivostok, I flew to Irkutsk, which is near Lake Baikal
in eastern Siberia. I had a good public lecture here in an auditorium at
a local branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
and on October 27 had two lectures. One was at the Irkutsk Government
Pedagogical University. I was asked not to mention my connection with
the Hare Krishna movement here (I usually do mention the connection). I
complied because the grad students who arranged the lecture said it might
get them in trouble if I mentioned it. But I was allowed to mention my Vedic
inspiration. The professor hosting the talk was an archeologist, so afterwards,
he took me to the archeology lab, where we had a good talk about archeological
evidence for extreme human antiquity. I said that they should be aware
of the entire data set relevant to their field of study. I said I would
leave it up to them how to divide the data set: credible, marginal, or
not credible. But at least they should be aware of the whole data set (the
discoveries I document in my book Forbidden Archeology are usually
not mentioned, even negatively, in archeology or even history of archeology
courses, even thought reported by scientists in the scientific literature).
Something that might not make sense today might make sense later on, in
the light of new discoveries. My second talk was at the Irkutsk
Government Technical University. Most of the audience were professors
(philosophy, linguistics, history), and also some graduate students. Judging
by attendance and questions the lecture went well. Some books were also
sold. I was not restrained from mentioning my Krishna connection, so I did
mention it. The grad student who arranged the lecture said that afterwards,
he only got one protest about the lecture from a professor. I gave my usual
plea for alternatives to evolution in the education system.
On
November 1, I flew from Irkutsk to Barnaul,
in central Siberia. Planes are modern, but seats are packed pretty close
together. Airport security is no more bothersome than anywhere else, but
if you do not know Russian, knowing where to go in the process can be hard.
I gave two lectures in Barnaul. One was for students at a local university
(the Government Pedagogical University), and the other was for ecologists,
philosophers, and others interested in environmental questions. My book
Divine Nature: A Spiritual Perspective on the Environmental
Crisis, coauthored with Mukunda Goswami, has been published in
Russian. So I presented a lecture on that book rather than on Human
Devolution. From Barnaul I traveled by overnight train to Omsk.
I travel second class on trains, and the trains are fairly new and comfortable.
The first event in Omsk was a major press conference held in an auditorium
at the city library, which is a huge Soviet style monument to literary
culture. About thirty reporters came to the press conference, about
evenly divided among radio, tv, and print media representatives. This was
organized by a local tv personality with her own show. Later she videotaped
an interview with me in a local museum of natural history, to use for her
show. In Omsk, I spoke at the Omsk Government University to an audience
of science students and professors. I spoke at another university
and I also gave two evening public lectures in big halls.
Lecturing before a
rapt audience at Tyumen Government University
From
Omsk, I took an overnight train to Tyumen. In Tyumen, I gave a public
lecture in a downtown auditorium. It was well attended and there were lots
of good questions. I gave academic lectures at the Biological Faculty
of the Tyumen Government University and the at a college of Arts and
Culture. . Last year, when I came to the Tyumen there was a problem. Professors
from the faculty of history of the TGU had invited me to speak at the university,
and at the last moment, the rector (president) of the TGU cancelled the
lecture. The lecture was transferred from the university to a local branch
of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Buses brought students and faculty from
the University to the lecture. After last year's lecture, I had a private
meeting with the director of the academy of science branch and some archeologist
who came to the lecture. One of the archeologists came to this year’s lecture
at the faculty of arts and culture (which houses the archeology department).
She brought many of her students and said she hoped I would come back to
Tyumen a third time. The lecture at the Biological Faculty was interesting.
Because many of the students and professors attending, the organizers asked
me to spend some time relating my book Human Devolution to ecological
issues. So I did that. This proved popular with many of the students present,
who were members of a group called Green Helpers, many of whom are
vegetarians. I also spent some time talking with a biology professor who
liked my talk. There were also some good media events in Tyumen. So
this year I gave a lecture at the university that banned me last year.
My guess is that after having heard me speak last year, “they” decided maybe
I was not so bad after all. In Tyumen, I also I had a 90 minute
interview with a regional radio station, and two interviews with regional
television channels.
From
Tyumen, I went by train to Perm on the east side of the Ural
Mountains. I gave some public lectures there, and then went by train
to Nizhni Novgorod. There the main event was a
lecture for the philosophy department of the Nizhni Novgorod Government
University. Some of the professors and grad students there like my
work very much. One grad student wrote to me that she is writing a report
about my talk and books for one of the main Russian philosophy journals.
She called my attention to a school of late nineteenth and early twentiety
century Russian philosophers, headed or influenced by
Vladimir Soloviev (or Solovyov), who bring mystical
experiences into their system. I also did a television interview.
The hallways connecting colleges
at the University of St. Petersburg
From
Nizhni Novgorod, I traveled by train to St. Petersburg. There I
gave a paper at a national philosophy conference organized by the philosophy
department of the University of St. Petersburg. My talk was about
the process of knowledge filtration in archeology. The university was built
by Tsar Peter the Great when he founded the city of St. Petersburg
in the 18th century. The university consists of twelve colleges, all arranged
in a row. There is a long hallway that connects all of them. In walking
through the hall in the law college, I saw pictures of all the famous persons
who attended law school there. Among them were Kerensky (head of
the provisional government after the first Russia revolution in 1917), Lenin
(head of the Communist revolution later in 1917), as well as the heads of
the current Russian government (president Medvedev, prime minister
Putin, and many of their ministers). On another
another day, I gave a public lecture at the Russian National Library.
The auditorium was packed, with people standing in the halls listening.
St. Petersburg is considered the cultural and intellectual center of Russia.
I took the chance to do a little sightseeing. I visited the Peter and Paul
fortress (where leaders of the Decembrist revolution in early 19th century
Russia were tried and executed), and the Museum of the Revolution.
This is in an aristocratic house that was for some time used by the Communists
as their headquarters in 1917.
Pictures of famous Russian personalities
line the hallways of the University of St Petersburg
From
St. Petersburg, I went by train to Vladimir. At a university there,
Dr. Alexei Timoschuk organizes a yearly
conference on topics related to the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad
Gita. I gave two talks there. One was a paper on applying vastu architectural
principles to the analysis of a Harrapan town site in Gujarat (Lothal).
My thesis is that the town shows definite signs of having been designed
according to vastu town planning principles, indicating that the cultural
identity of the people who built the town was Vedic. The usual opinion is
that the Harrapan culture was non-Vedic, and that the Vedic culture entered
India later. Given that I am a bit of a celebrity for my books, I also gave
a lecture on my book Forbidden Archeology. Many
students crowded into the conference hall for that, and television reporters
also came to film the event and interview me. The day after the conference,
I had a meeting with about a dozen Russian Hare Krishna members who are professional
scholars and scientists. And then the tour was over.
Dubai Skyline
After
my tour of Russia finished the last week of November, I flew on Emirates
airlines to Dubai, to speak at the International Conference on Ancient
Studies, It was a nice change from the Russian winter. From the
Dubai airport, I got a taxi to the Raffles
Hotel, which is
built in the shape of a pyramid and has Egyptian themed décor. The
conference organizers had arranged a nice suite for me there. So it was good
to relax there for a day before the conference began. The day after I arrived,
there was a meeting of all the speakers and the organizers. Robert Bauval,
author of the Orion Mystery, was there. He
uses stellar alignments with Orion to give a date for the Pyramids of
the Giza Plateau older than that given by conventional Egyptologists.
We’ve met several times before, and it was good to connect with him. For
the first time, I met Robert Shoch, who has done research on evidence
for water erosion around the Sphinx, which means the Sphinx must have been
built when there was abundant rainfall there. Again, this would give the
Sphinx an age greater than now accepted by Egyptologists. I was also happy
to see Gary Baddeley of Disinformation Press. Books published
by Disinformation Press such as You Are Being Lied To and Underground!
have included articles of mine on Forbidden Archeology and Human
Devolution. Just recently, an updated version of the first one, now called
You Are Still Being Lied To, has been released,
with my original essay on Forbidden Archeology. It was really great being
in Dubai with fellow researchers and publishers in the alternative history
field. In addition to the conference, there were a number of dinners, lunches,
and social events together. Somehow I managed to keep to my strict vegetarian
diet. Fortunately, a lot of Arab dishes are vegetarian. One night we took
a trip to the Mall of the Emirates, to see the famous indoor ski slope.
The conference itself went well. I gave a talk on Forbidden Archeology.
The indoor ski slope at the Mall of
the Emirates
Bhaktivedanta Academy of Arts and
Sciences Conference
I attended the conference of the Bhaktivedanta Academy of Arts and Sciences,
at Radhedesh, Belgium, December 19-21. The BAAS is an organization
of scientists and scholars associated with the International Society
for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). The conference was dedicated to
the memory of my Forbidden Archeology coauthor, Richard
L. Thompson, who left this world in 2008. I gave a keynote lecture based
on my many years of association with him. Richard had a Phd. in mathematics
from Cornell University. He was a founding member of the Bhaktivedanta
Institute, the science studies branch of ISKCON. He was my mentor in
how the Vedic philosophy of India can shed light on important scientific
questions such as the origin of life and the universe. In his later years,
he concentrated on issues related to Vedic cosmology. His books such as
Mechanisitic and Nonmechanistic Science, Alien Identities,
Vedic Cosmography and Astronomy, Mysteries of the Sacred Universe, and
Maya: Universe As Virtual Reality are essential reading
for anyone interested in the intersection of Vedic philosophy and modern
science.
Dr. Richard Thompson (left) with Dr. Howard J. Resnick (right) at the 2007 BAAS Conference
South India Tour
At the end of December 2008, I attended a conference called Science
and the Spiritual Quest, organized by the Kolkata branch of the Bhaktivedanta
Institute. The conference was held in Tiruchirapalli (Trichy
for short), in the south Indian state of Tamil
Nadu. The National Institute of Technology (NIT)
at Trichy hosted the event. I gave a keynote lecture about my book Human
Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin’s Theory. The conference
was attended by hundreds of science professors and science students from
universities and colleges all over India. The conference closed with a nice
cultural event, an evening of traditional bharata natyam dancing, including
an impressive peacock dance. Trichy is famous as the location of Shri Rangam,
the largest Vishnu temple in India. Surrounded by seven walls, it is located
on an island in the Kaveri River at Trichy. Conference attendees were taken
on a tour of the temple. Foreigners are normally not allowed into the inner
sanctum of the temple to see the main deity, a form of Vishnu reclining on
a serpent bed. But through the conference foreign delegates like me were
granted a special darshan (viewing). According to the temple histories,
the deity is millions of years old.
Michael
Cremo is seated third from right
After the conference, I decided to stay another week and visit some spiritual
places in South India. First, I went to Madurai, and visited the
famous Minakshi temple there. Then I went to see
the Rameshvara temple at Ramesvaram. Ramesvaram is on the
southwestern coast of India. It is famous at the place where Rama,
a incarnation of Vishnu, crossed the ocean to Lanka to kill the demon Ravana,
who had kidnapped his wife Sita. The history of these events has
been immortalized in the Sanskrit epic, the Ramayanana.
The
Rameshvara Temple at Ramesvaram
I then visited Kanya Kumari, at the very southern tip of India.
There is a temple there, dedicated to Kanya Kumari. Kanya Kumari was a goddess
who wanted to marry Shiva. But Shiva did not come, so, according to
the history, Kanya Kumari, in the form of a temple deitiy, is still waiting
there for him to come. While traveling to Kanya Kumari, I noticed large fields
of wind generators for electricity. I liked my tour of South India. The weather
in late December and early January was very pleasant, and I really enjoy
the south Indian vegetarian food (idli, samvar, coconut chutney, doshas,
etc.).
Wind
generators in South India
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