Apparently someone thinks that the Chocolate Virgin Mary I blogged about on Friday is really a sign of The End of Times. I've heard that Revelations was written in code, but I never knew that the Four Hoursemen actually meant a chocolate-dripping statute in the likeness of the Virgin Mary. Who knew? Thanks to boingboing for the post.
In other religious icon news, Hindu statues are drinkng milk from people's hands in India. See the Forbes report. Religious pilgrims are flocking to see Shiva, Ganesha and Durga sip milk from believers' hands at the temples. This isn't the first time that the gods have been thirsty- in 1995 almost the exact same thing happened (see the wikipedia article). The phenomenon is called the Hindu Milk Miracle. However, scientists say that the milk drinking is physics, not miracles, are at work. Apparently cold stones, like marble, can absorb liquids through surface tension and capillary action, much the way a tree can absorb water. I never made good grades in physics, but that sounds plausible enough of an explanation. I however would rather believe in milk-drinking statutes. It goes down so well with a chocolate Virgin Mary.
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