Dinosaur Eggs As Deities!
By
Sumit Paul, New Age Islam
27 December
2023
In Madhya
Pradesh's Dhar, the Mandaloi family has been worshipping palm-sized "stone
balls" for generations. A resident
of the Padlya Village, 41-year-old Vesta Mandaloi was following in his
forefathers' footsteps, worshipping these balls as "Kakar Bhairav" —
or lord of the land.
As per a Times
Of India report, Vesta and his family believed that the stone balls were a
'Kuldevta' or a totem that would protect their farmland and cattle from
problems and misfortunes. Like the Mandaloi family, others in Dhar and in
adjoining areas too had similar totems they worshipped for protection.
Photo: The Times of India
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However, a
team of researchers revealed that these balls turned out to be something else.
Experts from Lucknow's Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences during a field visit
determined that these stone ball totems were actually dinosaur eggs from a
bygone era.
After an
analysis, they came to the conclusion that these balls were fossilised eggs of
the Titanosaurs species of dinosaurs.
This is how
faith works and the mind plays tricks. This is the basis of humans' faith in a
fictional god and all sorts of inane religious practices.
Fashionable
votaries of idol worship, Amish Tripathi and his sister Bhavna Roy, must read
this.
These
dinosaur eggs were deities for the villagers for centuries. After becoming
'deities', those eggs started 'protecting' the people and cattle of the
village! Without criticising these rustic people or even 'educated' ones who
believe in all sorts of rubbish prevalent not just in Hinduism but in all
faiths, I must say that it's our uncritical and sheepish belief in all esoteric
objects and totems that yields ' results.' This is the basic psychology that
works in faith healing.
There's
actually nothing beyond what we see, experience and discern. Sigmund Freud
called it, ' Superimposition of Belief. ' Humans superimpose their beliefs on
an object and start believing in the transformation of that thing and
simultaneous transformation of their own lot. Eventually, they (humans) fall
into the pits of their own beliefs and succumb to their (own) collective lies.
Religious
faith is a viciously circular process in which one comes back to the same point
from where the 'lie/s' originated. Faith is a deceptive business. Religion is a
humongous lie and god is an illusion. We love to live in an illusory world.
That's why, we don't want to question and break our myths. The simple villagers
who had been worshipping those dinosaur eggs as deities are still not
disillusioned, but sad because you're disillusioned only when you've a semblance
of sense.
These
people, including all faithfuls, are sad because of the detonation of a
comfortable myth, which had been providing a psychological basis for their
survival, sustenance and mere existence.
In fact,
many of us know in their heart of hearts that what they believe in is actually
bullshit but they continue to believe because they begin to feel at home with
their preposterous beliefs and ramshackle myths. How will we survive without
our religious myths, prehistoric totems and silly beliefs is a profoundly
existential issue for most of the humans. They, therefore, continue to believe
in this and that god, a shapeless stone, an idol, an imaginary god or Allah in
a far away universe.
Didn't
former British PM, Benjamin Disraeli aptly say, " Who has deceived thee as
often as thyself ? "
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A regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul
is a researcher in comparative religions, with special reference to Islam. He
has contributed articles to the world's premier publications in several
languages including Persian.
URL: https://newageislam.com/spiritual-meditations/dinosaur-eggs-deities/d/131391
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