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Rare Photos of the Well of Sheshna
Topic Started: Jan 15 2011, 01:20 AM (8,797 Views)
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From The Deep Dwellers by WM Michael Mott

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Asia, particularly the Indian subcontinent, Tibet, Nepal, China, and Japan, have very similar traditions about subterranean inhabitants. In India there is a strong belief in the reality of the Nagas, a race of serpent-people or lizard-men who make their homes in two major underground cities (or civilizations), Patala and Bhogavati. The latter is said to be under the Himalayas, and from there the Nagas wage war on other, human, subterraneans, from the subsurface kingdoms of Agharta and Shambala. To this day, Patala is believed by millions of Hindus to have an entrance in the Well of Sheshna, in Benares. According to herpetologist and author Sherman A. Minton, as stated in his book "Venomous Reptiles," this entrance is very real, with forty steps which descend into a circular depression, to terminate at a closed stone door which is covered in bas-relief cobras. In Tibet, there is a major mystical shrine also called "Patala," which is said by the people there to sit atop an ancient cavern and tunnel system, which reaches throughout the Asian continent and possibly beyond. The Nagas also have an affinity with water, and the entrances to their underground palaces are often said to be hidden at the bottom of wells, deep lakes, and rivers.

Well worth reading:

The Deep Dwellers
http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/themagazine/vol10/articles/pics/dwellers1.shtml


Size of Light, aka SOL, posted about this at another group. He said several years ago he'd got hold of a Nexus Magazine special edition "Strange Times" which is a compilation of numerous excellent articles covering a variety of strange phenomena, including 'subterranean mysteries', and that he was intrigued by a detailed and comprehensive article by WM Michael Mott entitled "The Deep Dwellers", which chronicles the various legends of subterranean dwellers around the world, and has a heavy emphasis on the reptilian races.

In it Mott wrote:

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In India, there is still a strong belief in the reality of Nagas - a race of "serpent people" or "lizard men" who have made their homes in two major underground cities (or civilisations), Bhogavati and Patala.

Bhogavati is believed to be underneath the Himalayas, and it is said that from there the Nagas wage war on other human subterraneans from the subsurface kingdoms of Agharta and Shambala.

Patala is believed by millions of Hindus to this day to have an entrance in the Well of Sheshna in Benares. According to herpetologist and author Sherman A. Minton in his book Venemous Reptiles, this entrance is very real, having 40 steps which descend into a circular depression and then terminate at a closed stone door covered in bas-relief cobras. In Tibet there is a major mystical shrine, also called Patala, which is said by the people there to sit atop an ancient cavern and tunnel system which reaches throughout the Asian continent and possibly beyond.

SOL said he hadn't been able to find much online about the actual location of this mysterious site until recently, when he came across a travel blog that claims to have located the Well of Sheshna.

"The story and photos follow. I hope you find it is interesting as I did":

Varanasi - Well of Sheshna

One of our favorite experiences was finding the Well of Patanjali in Sheshna. Three years ago when Mark and a group of devotees last visited Varanasi, they were taken to another well and told that it was Patanjali's. Mark knew it wasn't THE ONE because he couldn't sense the Nagas there.

This trip we tried again to find it. Finding the Well of Sheshna is a very well kept secret in Varanasi and one of our dear Polish friends, Yogananda, did extensive research as to where we could find it. One of our drivers called him on his cell phone and Yogananda guided him and the rest of us to this very incredible spot. They have even built a gym on top of it to further disguise it, but having discovered it, there was no doubt that this was the real place where Patanjali wrote the Yoga Sutras at the very bottom of the well.

Imagine a gym built right on top of the well. Look down the steps and what do you see?...

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Here's what the well looked like...

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Some of us enjoyed going down to the water's edge or walking the stairs...

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Paige looks both like a goddess in person and in her reflection in the pool of water...

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Lauren, Mark B. and Stephanie reflectively by the water's edge...

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While others of us preferred to sit on the steps at the top in meditation, or soaking the whole experience in...

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The architecture of the well reminded us of the famous MC Escher drawing...

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It is said that 30 feet down at the bottom, is a door that leads to another world, the world of the Naga, the reptile-like semi-divine beings who live below the earth. "The book "VENOMOUS REPTILES" states that "Sheshna's well", an alleged opening into the underground reptilian realm of "Patala", may be seen today in Benares, (Varnasi) India, and according to Minton, it's author: "It has forty steps leading down into a circular depression to a stone door covered with cobras. This is said to lead to PATALA, the reptile netherworld". Every three years, they empty the water and have a very incredible celebration. Next emptying is June, 2009.

http://blog.podsweb.com/2008/03/17/varanasi--well-of-sheshna-and-sarnath-home-of-the-buddha.aspx

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So if anyone is planning a future trip to India, maybe if you're in Benares around June 2012 when they drain this well again, you might be able to get some incredible photos of the underwater door and it's bas-relief cobras.
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Below are some pictures of a model of the well by the same people who took the photographs:

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A model of the Well of Sheshna, Varanasi, India. This is where the great sage Patanjali is said to have sat for three years writing the Yoga Sutras. He is represented as the figure in the front of this model, with the script of the first verse of the Yoga Sutras written in Sanskrit. In the back are seated Baba Muktananda and Bhagawan Nityananda. The Well is the gateway to the world of the Naga, who are honored and represented by the two snakes on either side on the table.

http://www.hardlight.org/photos-16.html

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And here is the entrance to the gym that was supposedly built to disguise it:

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i see YOU got it, YAS
http://blog.podsweb.com/2008/03/17/varanasi--well-of-sheshna-and-sarnath-home-of-the-buddha.aspx

varanasi
http://www.google.ro/#hl=ro&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=varanasi+goddess&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&fp=7d3a984c5c467c4a

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/21818/Amram-bar-Sheshna
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that was great...thanks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAzUqIL_Qi8...ayer_detailpage

Champa was an Indic civilization that flourished along the coast of Vietnam for almost 1000 years, until the capture and destruction by the Vietnamese of the Cham capital of Vijaya (located in what is now Binh Dinh Province) in 1471. Nagas were part of the art and mythology of Champa.

As Hindus and users of Sanskrit as a formal language, the medieval Cham were heirs to the civilization and mythology of India, in which Nagas played an important role. Nagas were beings that had the properties and abilities of both humans and serpents. Like humans, they could speak and worship. Like serpents, they could live underwater and throw their coils around a victim. Some had the power to assume either human or serpent form. Numerous stories about Nagas may be found in the Mahabharata, the great epic of Indian civilization.

Nagas had an additional significance in Cambodian civilization. A legend has it that the Khmer are descended from the union of an Brahman from India named Kaundinya and a local Naga princess named Soma. The legend implies that Cambodia originally was the land of the Nagas, and that its civilization is the result of the Indianization of its native substratum. Due to the cultural connection between Champa and Cambodia, the Naga became significant to the Cham as well. In 657 A.D., the Cham king Prakasadharma claimed to be descended from Kaundinya and Soma through his mother, a Khmer princess.

The works of art presented in this video are housed in the museums of Vietnam. They include the following:

Statue of Vishnu sitting on a coiled Naga. Vishnu is recognizable from the attributes he is carrying. The motif is probably borrowed from the Buddhist legend of the serpent king Mucalinda, who used his hood to shield the meditating Buddha from the elements. The statue also recalls the motif of Vishnu lying asleep at the bottom of the ocean on the body of the serpent Shesha.

Statue of a Dharmapala with Nagas for his jewelry. This Buddhist statue of a temple guardian draws upon a theme from Hinduism that connects Shiva with serpents and has Shiva using serpents as personal ornaments.

Architectural Ornament of Makara disgorging Naga. The makara is a mythical sea monster with the head of a crocodile and the trunk of an elephant. It is commonly invoked as a motif in Cham and Cambodian architectural ornamentation. It is generally shown disgorging some other being: a person, an deer, a Naga.

* Nagas
http://angkorblog.com/_wsn/page16.html

* Art of Champa
http://angkorblog.com/_wsn/page18.html
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NECRA, i only see lemuryan karma here..
NO, NAGA AIN' T NOTHING TO DO WITH india civilisatyon...
= just a coincidence.
DIVYNE IS WITH YOU
( naga went in an inter-dimensyonal realm, maya got into another ... inca, too...)
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