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During Japan's Middle Ages and early modern era, Kasha were depicted as a fiery chariot who took the dead away to hell, and were depicted as such in Buddhist writings, such as rokudo-e. [4] Kasha also appeared in Buddhist paintings of the era, notably jigoku-zōshi (Buddhist ‘ hellscapes ’, paintings depicting the horrors of hell), where ...
A warrior on horseback or horse-drawn chariot changed the balance of power between the warring civilizations throughout the arc of East Asian military history. When warring East Asian civilizations were at odds, as the civilization with horses clashed with those without, horses provided a huge advantage to overcome, prevail, and subdue their ...
At one point Isaka, Honma's friend and housekeeper, talks about a flaming wagon that takes sinners to hell, citing Japanese Buddhist mythology. This is the kasha (Japanese: 火車, lit. ' fire chariot ') of the original Japanese title. The significance is that the real Shoko had gone through hell with her credit card bankruptcy, but then the ...
The noun merkavah "thing to ride in, cart" is derived from the consonantal root רכב r-k-b with the general meaning "to ride". The word "chariot" is found 44 times in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible—most of them referring to normal chariots on earth, [5] and although the concept of the Merkabah is associated with Ezekiel's vision (), the word is not explicitly written in Ezekiel 1.
Children's instructive toy chariot in Chinese display at Expo 2005 in Japan. The invention of the south-pointing chariot also made its way to Japan by the 7th century. The Nihon Shoki (The Chronicles of Japan) of 720 described the earlier Chinese Buddhist monks Zhi Yu and Zhi You constructing several south-pointing Chariots for Emperor Tenji of Japan in 658. [9]
The "chariot" comprises the solar disk, the axle, and the wheels, and it is unclear whether the sun is depicted as the chariot or as the passenger. Nevertheless, the presence of a model of a horse-drawn vehicle on two spoked wheels in Northern Europe at such an early time is astonishing.
Powerful landlord in chariot. Eastern Han 25–220 CE. Anping, Hebei. Model recreation of Han dynasty chariot, from Tomb of Liu Sheng.. Ancient Chinese chariots were typically two wheeled vehicles drawn by two or four horses [14] with a single draught pole measuring around 3 m long that was originally straight but later evolved into two curved shafts.
Statue from the late Jōmon period (1000–400 BCE) in Japan, interpreted by von Däniken as depicting an alien visitor. Von Däniken suggests that the Nazca lines (200 BCE – CE 700) in Peru could be "landing strips" for alien spacecraft. The main thesis of Chariots of the Gods is that extraterrestrial beings influenced ancient technology ...