Khajuraho temples - The Love of Design

If someone want resistant that the Kama Sutra originated in India, Khajuraho temples are the place to see. Erotica abounds here with over twenty temples devoted to sexuality & sex. These sandstone temples, which date back to the 10th & 11th century, are the only ones residual out of 85 temples constructed during this time. 

There are three groups of temples -- Western, Eas tern & Southern. The main temples are in the Western group that features the magnificent Kandariya Mahadeo Temple. The Eastern Group contains a amount of exquisitely sculptured Jain temples. There are just two temples in the Southern group.  Khajuraho is in northern Madhya Pradesh, about 620 kilometers (385 miles) south east of Delhi. 

Khajuraho is most simply reached by flight, or long distance train from Delhi to Agra (tri-weekly 2448 U P Sampark Kranti). There is also a daily Khajuraho temple -Jhansi Link train service, which is covers the distance between Khajuraho and Jhansi in around 5 hours.

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Stonehenge - Popular Mysteries Megalithic Tombstone

Many popular experts possibility suggest that, mysterious sites around the world were created with help of advanced knowledge & technology (possibly more advanced than our current one) possessed by lost civilizations. Others don’t believe that, there ever was very advanced civilization on earth & all of the excellent knowledge was handed down to us by ancient astronauts who came down from heaven. The majority scientists do not subscribe to any of these ideas and try to explain ancient enigmas on the ground of religion and ritual. 

There have no any individual who has never heard about Stonehenge. I guess it’s one of the most popular mysteries. Stonehenge is a megalithic tombstone on the Salisbury Plain in Southern England, composed mostly of 30 upright stones (each over ten feet tall and weighing up to 45 tons), allied in a circle, with 30 lintels (6 tons each) perched horizontally atop the sarsens in a constant circle.

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The Katskhi Pillar in Georgia

The Katskhi pillar is an impressive limestone monolith, forty mtrs tall, located in the village of Katskhi in western Georgian region of Imereti. It is about 10 kms from the mining town of Chiatura. In pagan times & before the advent of Christianity, Katskhi Pillar was thought to symbolize a local god of fertility. After the arrival of Christianity in Georgia in the fourth century, the rock came to symbolize seclusion. According to the locals it stands the Pillar of Life.

At the top of the Katskhi pillar, are the remains of a church built between the 6th & 8th centuries. The church was perhaps built by the Stylites, who were early Christian austere who stood on top of pillars & preaching & praying. The only written record of the Katskhi pillar occurs in the text of an 18th-century Georgian scholar, who noted the church for its difficult accessibility. However, there exist a number of local legends surrounding the pillar. Among them one of which says that the top of the rock was connected by a long iron chain to the dome of the Katskhi church, located at a distance of around 1.5 kilometer from the pillar.

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