Hi
I'm a shinnyo follower and will be going to the Hawaii lantern floating this month. Nice photos and web site!.. I am into Native American paintings and carvings. It is obvious that the big rock was put there by some native people. Where is it standing? I have found that by comparing photos and painting to the photos from satellites of some of the biggest asteroids that the Native Americans saw them and recorded them when they came between the moon and the earth. The main asteroids are Ida, Gaspra, Eros, Apophis.
All of this got started when my wife (who is Japanese) Junko and I (Keith) had a house purification ceremony. Before the ceremony the preist mentioned that our house has been a gathering place of the Native Americans and is warm and light. So we have have had winter training here two years now.
The asteroid Apophis is most likely the source of the Reclining Buddha. What I mean by that is that there was a comet when Christ was born, there was a white elephant when Buddha mother was conceiving, and Buddha was born out of the "side" of Queen Maya. Also of note is that Mohamed hand carried a meteorite that is now in Mecca (inside the big black cube that they parade around).
So if you look at the alter will see Buddha has usually 5 Buddhas behind him in a circle and 6 trailing Buddhas in a tail. All moving "west". Very similar to Jesus and the 12 apostles and the 11 face Bodhi Satva.
I would like to take some pictures of the big standing rock which looks like a tribute to Ida. I have found carved rocks in the shape of Gaspra and rocks painted red in the shape of Ida. Ida is red in the Nasa photographs.
As you can tell I'm a bit of a nerd (engineer) but I enjoy the big cosmic puzzle that Buddha led me to see. I hope to write a book about world Peace letting everyone know that the idols in their religions are shared around the world because they were all in the sky.
We should live in peace. The creative energy that made us all is common to all people. The religions are like channels on the car radio. Each button or channel is in a language and culture that will reach the most people in that area. The book would proably have some title like ... "What Rock Fell in Your Back Yard" a call for peace on earth by Keith Snyder