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Polonnaruwa - Sri Lanka
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I was intrigued by the dwarfs in this one and the more worn out one as well...
Curious if this is like... Buddha prior to his meditation or even maybe an incarnation of Shiva
(but no Nandi bull, so perhaps not) or even a different king.... hmmmn... So reminiscent of
places further east from here... 
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I think that, these dwarves lived on this island in the ancient times..
If you knows buddhist stories, you can find it, by the crown of seven snakes on his head...
I don't know it...
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Possibly...
Hmmmn, I didn't know of it, but researched it, and usually,
the crown of seven snakes protected Buddha from the elements
of rain and sunburn, etc etc, while he was in a transcendental and
meditative state for long periods of time... soooo... why he would
be standing and whatnot is a bit peculiar of portrayal of him... 
It's been so long since I studied this stuff, though, however, Sri Lanka
was rarely a part of it... mostly, it was China, Japan, India, Cambodia...
...of the main ones I recall... that we studied in this class I took a decade ago...
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Probably, Buddha traveled through to the eastern world.. in all their incarnations
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It's a distinct possibility... he did come back to teach medical stuff to one of the nations,
hence there is a depiction of him called the "Medicine Buddha" too... 
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maybe he bringing a some herbs
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He was holding a lotus flower, I believe...
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Yeah, by the legends which i heard on there, Buddha brought to Srí lanka, for their king. Some lotus flower and sacred ficus...
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That's a little bit different from the medicine Buddha I'm referring to,
and likely does entail of his travels, something he did often as Prince
Siddhartha, prior to recognizing/seeing suffering of others for the first time,
which prompted his meditative mindset in the first place...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhaisajy…
Anyway, he holds a pot and a lotus flower in this depiction, and has blue skin,
typically.
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Yeah, it was before his visit of Srí Lanka
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Meow... I am still out and about, and am unable to access adorable emotes on my mobile device... but hey, it's fun to chat with you a moment. 💖💜😄
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Awww, cutie. How's your evening? When will you be heading to bed for sleep?
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I have nice evening with your comments and photos 
Probably in one hour..
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I'm glad to here this.
Hope you're sleeping well, still.
Tried answering your note... you're so sweet, but my draft that I saved
is very long and detailed, and I want to be sure I'm saying the right things
to you... so I'll be replying to it in my morning time, likely when you're out.
And um... had I seen one of your other replies sooner, 
Anyways... I need some rest now myself... you will likely have a few more
replies Monday, if not when you wake up, maybe when you're home, although,
I think I'm only home after work around about 00:30 a.m. your time, or 30 minutes
past midnight.
This could be interesting, to say the least!
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Long note, again. I look forward to it
I hope that, you have a beautiful day..
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D'oh! Was handling some legal issues this morning and won't have time for that long note until either this evening or tomorrow/Tuesday morning... my apologies my sweet! 😥
So sweet of you, I've literally noticed it improve drastically since about the time you sent this. Thank you. Hope you have a wonderful night and sleep well my dear! 💜
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No prob. we had no energy today...
Yes, wonderful night
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Both of us were just completely exhausted, eh? Had a feeling it was mutual!
Awww, 
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Yes, our time is so chaotic now... it is exhausting..
I go to sleep soon, my dear Michelle
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Are you sure this is a guardian? He seems to keep something resembling a pot and something resembling a plant...
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I dont know, they stay around stairs like a guardians, maybe they are messengers, but they have a crown from seven snakes..
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They might be also other depictions of the first Buddha or some deity.
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Maybe, Or his students..
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Might be too. We can always ask some Deviant from India or Sri Lanka.
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Yes, but they are very old statues..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonnar…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatadage
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And? I'm sure there are people interested in their own history and culture.
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Maybe, I interested about these little dwarfs and nobody knows whether they really lived... People found these ruins in the jungle.
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I think they might be just people depicted that way, not necessarily dwarfs.
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Maybe, or they lived there before a thousands years than came normal people to island...
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There would be bones. Also, dwarfish creatures are common in many folklores and mythologies.
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In the jungle are bad conditions for bones and mytology has some beginning...
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Well, dwarfism occurred everywhere.
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Maybe before ice time
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before Ice Age? Well, dwarfish species of man were found in Asia (Homo floresiensis on Flores island in Indonesia) but they went extinct around 50000 years ago. I think it isn't enough for such expanded appearance in culture that has at most 8000 years. I think it might be some sort of depiction of hierarchy. In Europe, in Medieval Age, social status was often depicted by size. Short priest was depicted as high and tall pheasant was depicted as short (or even dwarf).
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Yes, maybe you have right, but is possible that, some civilization was before ice time, maybe before 50000 or 100000 years..
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I don't think so. Oldest known civilization is dated to start around 8,000 ago or before our age. One of the oldest known city (not civilisation) is Jericho, built 11,000 years ago. People started to form villages in late Palaeolithic Age, around 10,000 years ago. It's when agriculture started (both farming plants and domestication of goats).
The oldest known settlement is Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, 315,000,000 years ago. It was community of people living in caves, not settlement in "modern" meaning.
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Yes, because older things did not preserved, all things on earth are recyklate in time.. Neanderthals or Denisovans they could have a civilization before ice time and than glaciers destroyed everthing and there have been too few people in the world for a next civilization....
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Glaciers didn't destroy everything. There are many remains from Ice Age in Europe. There are many tools, which suggest rather small hunting societies of Neanderthals than civilization. About Denisovans we don't know much, mostly genomes of few of them.
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YYes, because all civilizations were destroyed before and small hunting societies can't make civilization, you need many and many people for work on this.
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The fact that there were no civilizations found and the fact that there was glacier don't make proof that there was ever a civilization. Also, Neanderthals lived to the south from the glacier, even in current Israel. Glacier didn't get to southern Europe.
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I have no proofs, it's only hypothese. Before 100 years people though that, the earth is flat... and now you know everything, congratulation
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People in Medieval Age already knew that the Earth is round. They didn't know that it goes around the sun.
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Only in europe, Aztec and next cultures knew it a long before...
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We were talking about Europe...
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