Nazi-Acquired Buddha Statue Came From Space

[Lemmiwinks]

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It sounds like a mash-up of Indiana Jones' plots, but German researchers say a heavy Buddha statue brought to Europe by the Nazis was carved from a meteorite that likely fell 10,000 years ago along the Siberia-Mongolia border.

This space Buddha, also known as "iron man" to the researchers, is of unknown age, though the best estimates date the statue to sometime between the eighth and 10th centuries. The carving depicts a man, probably a Buddhist god, perched with his legs tucked in, holding something in his left hand. On his chest is a Buddhist swastika, a symbol of luck that was later co-opted by theNazi party of Germany.

 

 

 

"One can speculate whether the swastika symbol on the statue was a potential motivation to displace the 'iron man' meteorite artifact toGermany," the researchers wrote online Sept. 14 in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science.

Iron man adventure

The iron man first came to Germany after a 1938-1939 Tibet expedition by zoologist and ethnology Ernst Schäfer, who was sent to the region by the Nazi party to find the roots of Aryan origin. The statue then passed into the hands of a private owner.

 

 

woah, this is the stuff movies are made of

[Rotwang]

Cool.

[needle ninja]

...and it is said that any man who posesses the statue will be able to rule an army that can never be defeated....until they invade russia.

[Panoptes]

non-sense i tell you.

not much more to elaborate on that.