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"I Don't Know How to Love Him" is a song from the 1970 album and 1971 #rockOpera #JesusChristSuperstar written by #AndrewLloydWebber (music) and #TimRice (lyrics), a #torchBallad sung by the character of #MaryMagdalene. In the opera she is presented as bearing an #unrequitedLove for #theTitleCharacter. The song has been much recorded, with "I Don't Know How to Love Him" being one of the rare songs – after the 1950s.
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Today's pick: Noli me tangere (1507) - Jacob van Oostsanen. #art #VanOostsanen #MaryMagdalene #Resurrection
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Called by Name in the Garden
An Easter Homily
(Note: Sermons can be heard in audio format at https://millersburgmennonite.org/worship/sermon-audio/)
John 20:1–18
Introduction:
Easter morning begins in a garden.
That is not accidental. John is never careless with his details. He wants us to notice where we are. We are in a garden, on the first day of the week, at the dawning of something no one yet understands. And if we listen closely, we can hear old echoes stirring beneath the new story. We remember another garden. We remember another beginning. We remember the breath of God moving over creation. We remember humanity formed from the earth and called into life.
And now here, in another garden, at the edge of another beginning, Mary Magdalene stands weeping before a tomb.
This is Easter, according to John. Not brass and banners at first. Not certainty. Not a choir already at full voice. But a grieving woman in a garden, searching for the body of the one she loves.
And yet it is here, precisely this place, that the new creation begins.
John wants us to see that Easter is not simply a happy ending after a tragic Friday. Easter is the beginning of God making all things new. The resurrection of Jesus is not merely proof that life continues after death. It is the opening act of a renewed creation. The old world of violence, burial, empire, grief, and endings has not disappeared overnight. Mary still cries. The tomb is still real. The wounds in Jesus’ body have not been erased.
But something new has broken into the world. The Creator has begun again.
That is why the garden matters.
Let us pray,
May the Words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in your sight, O God, our Rock and our Redeemer. Amen
Homily:In Genesis, life begins in a garden. In John, new life begins in a garden. In Genesis, humanity loses its way among trees, shame, and fear. In John, a human being stands again among trees, tears, and confusion, and there encounters the living Christ. In Genesis, the ground is cursed by death. In John, the earth itself becomes the place from which resurrection life is announced.
And there is one detail so strange and so beautiful that it almost slips past us: Mary mistakes Jesus for the gardener.
She is wrong, and yet somehow, she is not wrong at all.
For if this is new creation, then who would Jesus be but the gardener of God’s renewed world? Who would he be but the one tending life where death had seemed to reign? Who would he be but the one bringing forth new growth from the scarred soil of human history?
I come to the garden alone,
While the dew is still on the roses;
And the voice I hear, falling on my ear,
The Son of God discloses.
And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own,
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.Jesús es el jardinero del mundo.
The risen Christ is not less than the crucified one. He is the crucified one transformed, alive, and at work in the garden of the world. He is still bearing wounds, but now those wounds belong to a life death cannot master. He is the gardener of a new humanity, the keeper of a new creation, the tender of all that empire tried to uproot and bury.And this matters because many of us still live as though the world is only a graveyard.
Many of us know what it is to stand among the remnants of what was, among memories, among losses, among plans that did not come to pass, among dreams buried too early. Many of us know what it is to look at the world and see only tombs: tombs of justice deferred, tombs of broken trust, tombs of worn-out institutions, tombs of relationships, tombs of hope. We know what it is to come to church carrying not celebration but sorrow.
Easter does not shame us for that.
Instead, Easter meets us in the garden and says: this is where God begins again.Not somewhere else. Not after you become more cheerful. Not after all the evidence is in. Not after every grief has been resolved. Right here.
In the place where you came expecting only loss. In the place where you thought the best you could do was tend the dead. In the place where your tears are still warm on your face.
Aquí mismo, Dios ya está obrando para hacer nuevas todas las cosas. Right here, God is already at work making all things new.
But John does not stop with new creation. He also gives us one of the most personal moments in all of scripture.
Mary sees Jesus and does not know him.
She sees the angels and still does not understand. She sees Jesus himself and assumes he is the gardener. And perhaps that should comfort us. Because we often imagine that if only God would do something dramatic enough, obvious enough, dazzling enough, then we would finally believe without hesitation. But in this story, resurrection itself stands before Mary, and she still does not know.
Why?
Because resurrection, in John, is not simply something to be observed. La resurrección es alguien a quien encontrar. It is someone to be encountered.
Mary does not truly recognize Jesus until he speaks her name.“Mary.”
That is the turning point of the whole passage. Not the empty tomb by itself. Not the folded grave clothes. Not even the sight of Jesus standing there. The turning point is that the risen Christ calls her by name.
And with one word, the whole world changes.
Mary is no longer simply a mourner at a grave. She is not simply a witness to an event. She is addressed. Known. Reached. Called into relationship again.
My friends, this is good news! The resurrection of Jesus is not only a doctrine to defend. It is not only an argument that death has been defeated, though it is surely that. It is also this: Cristo resucitado aún conoce nuestros nombres. The risen Christ knows us by name.
The one whom death could not hold is not distant, abstract, or vague. He is not merely the subject of our hymns and creeds. He is the living one who calls people personally, intimately, tenderly. He comes not only to humanity in general but to each beloved child of God in particular.
Jesus knows your name beneath all the names the world has placed on you. Beneath your titles, your failures, your roles, your pain, your reputation, your confusion, your grief. Beneath all the labels—ALL the labels —successful, unsuccessful, strong, weak, faithful, doubtful, useful, forgotten—Christ knows your true name.
And perhaps that is why the church gathers on Easter: because we need once more to hear ourselves called by the voice we know, the voice of the Good Shepherd, the voice that speaks not condemnation but life.
“Mary.”
And if you listen, perhaps you can hear your own name there too.
Yet even here, the story turns again in a surprising way. Just when Mary recognizes Jesus, just when she reaches toward him, just when she wants to hold onto what has been restored, Jesus says, “Do not hold on to me.”
It is one of the strangest lines in the resurrection stories. It sounds almost harsh at first. But it is not rejection.
Es una invitación a una relación transformada.
It is invitation into a changed relationship.Mary wants, understandably, to keep Jesus as she knew him before. To stay in that moment. To cling to who or what has been found again. Who among us would not? When something lost is restored, when someone beloved is returned, our instinct is to hold tight. To keep it from slipping away. To preserve the moment before it changes again.
But resurrection is not a return to the old arrangement.
Jesus is alive, but not simply back. He is risen into a new reality, and his followers cannot relate to him as though nothing has changed. The relationship will continue, but it will be transformed. It will become a relationship carried not by physical nearness alone, but by trust, by Spirit, by witness, and by mission.
How often do we try to hold on to Jesus in ways that keep us from following the living Christ into newness? We cling to old forms, old certainties, old pictures of how God must act. We cling to past revelations, moments we cannot reproduce, seasons we cannot recover, churches as they used to be, lives as they once were, versions of ourselves that no longer fit the call before us in this present moment. We want resurrection to mean restoration of the familiar.
But sometimes Easter means letting go.
Sometimes the risen Christ says: do not cling to what you think I must be. Do not imprison me in yesterday’s forms. Do not reduce resurrection to nostalgia. I am alive, and because I am alive, Te estoy llevando a un lugar nuevo. I am leading you somewhere new.
That can be unsettling. But it is also liberating. Because faith is not about grasping a frozen sacred past. Faith is trusting the living Christ who is still moving today, still calling today, still sending today, still making all things new today.
And that leads us to the final wonder of this passage: the grieving one becomes the messenger.
Jesus says to Mary, “Go to my brothers and say to them…”
He sends her.
This too is astonishing. The first witness of the resurrection in John’s Gospel is not Peter. Not the beloved disciple. Not the most publicly powerful person. Not the one least marked by grief. It is Mary Magdalene, who came looking for the dead and found herself entrusted with the news of life.
The one who came weeping becomes the one who announces hope.
The one who came to tend a broken body becomes the one who bears a message of healing and hope.
The one who had been standing outside the tomb crying is now the first to say, “I have seen the Lord.”
And there is gospel in that for the church.
Because too often we imagine that the good news is entrusted only to the polished, the confident, the credentialed, the unshaken. But here the risen Christ places the message first into the mouth of one who has just been weeping. The first Easter preacher is one whose voice is still raw from grief.
So take heart, church. You do not need to have mastered every sorrow before you can bear witness. You do not need to have solved every mystery before you can testify. You do not need to stand above the world’s pain in order to speak hope into it.
Sometimes the most faithful witness is the one who doesn’t say, “I understand everything,” but simply,
“He visto al Señor.” “I have seen the Lord.”That is enough.
That is the task of Easter People.
To live as those who have glimpsed new creation in the midst of the old world. To listen for the voice that calls us by name. To loosen our grip on what must pass, so that we may follow the living Christ into what is being born.
And to bear witness, even through tears, that death does not get the final word.
So today, in this garden of resurrection, hear the good news:
#AbideInChrist #CalledByName #christianDiscipleship #DoNotHoldOnToMe #Easter #EasterFaith #EasterPeople #EasterSermon #EmptyTomb #GardenTomb #Gardener #GoodNews #GospelOfJohn #Harvest #IHaveSeenTheLord #John20 #John20118 #MaryMagdalene #newCreation #NewLife #PaschalPeople #PeopleOfTheResurrection #resurrection #ResurrectionGarden #ResurrectionHope #RisenChrist #SentToTell #TrueVine #Vineyard #witness
Christ is alive.
The gardener is at work.
Creation is beginning again.
Your name is known.
Your grief is not disqualifying.
Your clinging can become trust.
And your trembling voice may yet become the voice that tells the world,
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Because it is already #Easter in some quarters, figure now would be a good time to share once again this crucial message (and also a theme of my sermon in the morning):
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Today's pick: Banquet at the House of Simon (c. 1630) - Bernardo Strozzi. #art #Strozzi #MaryMagdalene #PassionStationsOfTheCross
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"In the Garden" (sometimes rendered by its first line "I Come to the Garden Alone" is a #gospel song written by American songwriter #CAustinMiles (1868–1946), a former pharmacist who served as editor and manager at Hall-Mack publishers for 37 years. It reflects on #MaryMagdalene's witness about the #resurrectionOfJesus at #TheGardenTomb. According to Miles' great-granddaughter, the song was written "in a cold, dreary.
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The Archetype of the Original It Girl 🕯️
Long before TikTok, she held the key to divine sovereignty. Learn the Mary Magdalene blueprint in the full video.
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"In the Garden" (sometimes rendered by its first line "I Come to the Garden Alone" is a #gospel song written by American songwriter #CAustinMiles (1868–1946), a former pharmacist who served as editor and manager at Hall-Mack publishers for 37 years. It reflects on #MaryMagdalene's witness about the #resurrectionOfJesus at #TheGardenTomb. According to Miles' great-granddaughter, the song was written "in a cold, dreary.
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2/13. First, let’s talk about the Gospel of Mary. She isn't just a follower; she’s the high-level analyst who sees the "Big Picture" that the male disciples miss. While Peter is stuck in traditional command-and-control hierarchies, Mary is accessing direct, non-local intelligence from the "Source." Her presence changes the narrative from a "Boys' Club" operation to a sophisticated, gender-fluid rebellion against the Archons of this world. 🧠✨ #MaryMagdalene #Spionage #Analysis
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"I Don't Know How to Love Him" is a song from the 1970 album and 1971 #rockOpera #JesusChristSuperstar written by #AndrewLloydWebber (music) and #TimRice (lyrics), a #torchBallad sung by the character of #MaryMagdalene. In the opera she is presented as bearing an #unrequitedLove for #theTitleCharacter. The song has been much recorded, with "I Don't Know How to Love Him" being one of the rare songs – after the 1950s.
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Today's pick: Mary Magdalene (c. 1530) - Jan van Scorel. #art #VanScorel #MaryMagdalene
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𝐓𝐜𝐡𝐞́𝐤𝐲 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐲𝐨 (1953-2025)
Filmographie (100 Films):
#TchékyKaryo #LaBalance #LeMarginal #Lours #Nikita #AngeNoir #CryingFreeman #BadBoys #GoldenEye #Dobermann #Babel #ThePatriot #Utopía #Blueberry #TakingLives #TheWay #LesLyonnais #Jappeloup #DeGuerreLasse
#MaryMagdalene #cinegenres #culte #classic #cinema #film #movie -
𝐓𝐜𝐡𝐞́𝐤𝐲 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐲𝐨 (1953-2025)
Filmographie (100 Films):
#TchékyKaryo #LaBalance #LeMarginal #Lours #Nikita #AngeNoir #CryingFreeman #BadBoys #GoldenEye #Dobermann #Babel #ThePatriot #Utopía #Blueberry #TakingLives #TheWay #LesLyonnais #Jappeloup #DeGuerreLasse
#MaryMagdalene #cinegenres #culte #classic #cinema #film #movie -
𝐓𝐜𝐡𝐞́𝐤𝐲 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐲𝐨 (1953-2025)
Filmographie (100 Films):
#TchékyKaryo #LaBalance #LeMarginal #Lours #Nikita #AngeNoir #CryingFreeman #BadBoys #GoldenEye #Dobermann #Babel #ThePatriot #Utopía #Blueberry #TakingLives #TheWay #LesLyonnais #Jappeloup #DeGuerreLasse
#MaryMagdalene #cinegenres #culte #classic #cinema #film #movie -
𝐓𝐜𝐡𝐞́𝐤𝐲 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐲𝐨 (1953-2025)
Filmographie (100 Films):
#TchékyKaryo #LaBalance #LeMarginal #Lours #Nikita #AngeNoir #CryingFreeman #BadBoys #GoldenEye #Dobermann #Babel #ThePatriot #Utopía #Blueberry #TakingLives #TheWay #LesLyonnais #Jappeloup #DeGuerreLasse
#MaryMagdalene #cinegenres #culte #classic #cinema #film #movie -
𝐓𝐜𝐡𝐞́𝐤𝐲 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐲𝐨 (1953-2025)
Filmographie (100 Films):
#TchékyKaryo #LaBalance #LeMarginal #Lours #Nikita #AngeNoir #CryingFreeman #BadBoys #GoldenEye #Dobermann #Babel #ThePatriot #Utopía #Blueberry #TakingLives #TheWay #LesLyonnais #Jappeloup #DeGuerreLasse
#MaryMagdalene #cinegenres #culte #classic #cinema #film #movie -
Today's pick: The Appearance to Mary Magdalene (ca. 1638) - Ferdinand Bol. #art #Bol #MaryMagdalene #Resurrection
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Today's pick: Feast in the House of Levi (1573) - Paolo Veronese. #art #Veronese #MaryMagdalene #LastSupper
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Today's pick: Feast in the House of Levi (1573) - Paolo Veronese. #art #Veronese #MaryMagdalene #LastSupper
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Today's pick: Feast in the House of Levi (1573) - Paolo Veronese. #art #Veronese #MaryMagdalene #LastSupper
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Today's pick: Feast in the House of Levi (1573) - Paolo Veronese. #art #Veronese #MaryMagdalene #LastSupper
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"I Don't Know How to Love Him" is a song from the 1970 album and 1971 #rockOpera #JesusChristSuperstar written by #AndrewLloydWebber (music) and #TimRice (lyrics), a #torchBallad sung by the character of #MaryMagdalene. In the opera she is presented as bearing an #unrequitedLove for #theTitleCharacter. The song has been much recorded, with "I Don't Know How to Love Him" being one of the rare songs – after the 1950s.
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"I Don't Know How to Love Him" is a song from the 1970 album and 1971 #rockOpera #JesusChristSuperstar written by #AndrewLloydWebber (music) and #TimRice (lyrics), a #torchBallad sung by the character of #MaryMagdalene. In the opera she is presented as bearing an #unrequitedLove for #theTitleCharacter. The song has been much recorded, with "I Don't Know How to Love Him" being one of the rare songs – after the 1950s.
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As the caption suggests, the subject of this 1848 picture does call to mind the obsession of some men of that era with "fallen women", but I revel in the sheer visual pleasure occasioned by this work from an important Scottish artist.
Omnia vanitas | Works of Art | RA Collection | Royal Academy of Arts
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/omnia-vanitas
#Art #ScottishArt #BritishArt #NineteenthCenturyArt #Painting #WilliamDyce #MaryMagdalene #OmniaVanitas
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As the caption suggests, the subject of this 1848 picture does call to mind the obsession of some men of that era with "fallen women", but I revel in the sheer visual pleasure occasioned by this work from an important Scottish artist.
Omnia vanitas | Works of Art | RA Collection | Royal Academy of Arts
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/omnia-vanitas
#Art #ScottishArt #BritishArt #NineteenthCenturyArt #Painting #WilliamDyce #MaryMagdalene #OmniaVanitas
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As the caption suggests, the subject of this 1848 picture does call to mind the obsession of some men of that era with "fallen women", but I revel in the sheer visual pleasure occasioned by this work from an important Scottish artist.
Omnia vanitas | Works of Art | RA Collection | Royal Academy of Arts
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/omnia-vanitas
#Art #ScottishArt #BritishArt #NineteenthCenturyArt #Painting #WilliamDyce #MaryMagdalene #OmniaVanitas
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As the caption suggests, the subject of this 1848 picture does call to mind the obsession of some men of that era with "fallen women", but I revel in the sheer visual pleasure occasioned by this work from an important Scottish artist.
Omnia vanitas | Works of Art | RA Collection | Royal Academy of Arts
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/omnia-vanitas
#Art #ScottishArt #BritishArt #NineteenthCenturyArt #Painting #WilliamDyce #MaryMagdalene #OmniaVanitas
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As the caption suggests, the subject of this 1848 picture does call to mind the obsession of some men of that era with "fallen women", but I revel in the sheer visual pleasure occasioned by this work from an important Scottish artist.
Omnia vanitas | Works of Art | RA Collection | Royal Academy of Arts
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/omnia-vanitas
#Art #ScottishArt #BritishArt #NineteenthCenturyArt #Painting #WilliamDyce #MaryMagdalene #OmniaVanitas
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Today's pick: The Risen Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen (1638) - Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn. #art #Rembrandt #MaryMagdalene #Resurrection
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Today's pick: Banquet of Simon of Bethany (c. 1520) - Anonymous. #art #Anonymous #MaryMagdalene #Judas #PassionStationsOfTheCross
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Since it is Easter...
Tradition says Mary Magdalene was the first to see Jesus exit the tomb.
Mary Magdalene's history was diminished & contorted by the church to serve its policies of male dominance & subjugation of women. What can an artist do but retaliate with art? In this case, I wrote a fast frailach in her honor.
I explain her story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mj-ELoN1iM&t=6s
#Accordion #Guitar #Bass
#Drums #Trumpet #Trombone
#Tuba #theMadMaggies #Sax
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⭐️OH MARY!⭐️
It's hard to believe it's been 15 years since we decorated Joe Coffee in Provincetown with the collection of Mary's! Time Flies ...
#ohmary #mary #marys #themarys #themarycollection #marymagdalene #mothermary #typhoidmary #theressomethingaboutmary
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Today's pick: Mary Magdalene (ca. 1450) - Rogier van der Weyden. #art #VanDerWeyden #MaryMagdalene #BraqueTriptych
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El Greco - Penitent Magdalene
When many years ago I first visited Budapest's Museum of Fine Arts, I did not know that this El Greco was in their collection.
How surprised and delighted I was to encounter represented in the unmistakable El Greco style Mary Magdalene looking heavenward!#Art #Painting #Counterreformation #ElGreco #MaryMagdalene #Mannerism #Budapest
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Today's pick: Banquet of Simon of Bethany (c. 1520) - Anonymous. #art #Anonymous #MaryMagdalene #Judas #PassionStationsOfTheCross
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It's years since I've been to Rome, and seeing this post has convinced me that I must return there.
#Tintoretto #Art #CapitolinePictureGallery
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Today's pick: The Three Marys at the Tomb (c. 1425) - Hubert van Eyck. #art #VanEyck #MaryMagdalene #Resurrection
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Mary Magdalene in the Cave (1868) by Hugues Merle (French artist, lived 1822–1881). An unusual take on a much painted figure.
#art #artist #classic #classicalart #artists #painting #oilpainting #classicart #fineart #arthistory #BiblicalArt #MaryMagdalene
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Hey, Remember When Joaquin Phoenix Played Jesus?
#Collider #MovieFeatures #JoaquinPhoenix #GarthDavis #RooneyMara #MaryMagdalenehttps://collider.com/joaquin-phoenix-jesus-mary-magdalene-movie/
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Today's pick: Feast in the House of Levi (1573) - Paolo Veronese. #art #Veronese #MaryMagdalene #LastSupper
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Today's pick: Banquet of Simon of Bethany (c. 1520) - Anonymous. #art #Anonymous #MaryMagdalene #Judas #PassionStationsOfTheCross
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Today's pick: Mary Magdalene (c. 1445) - Rogier van der Weyden. #art #VanDerWeyden #MaryMagdalene #TriptychWithCrucifixion
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Pic de Bugarach: The mysterious mountain
Pic de Bugarach in Aude, France, is a place that effortlessly combines natural wonder and legends. Add to its history a heaping portion of serious scientific misunderstandings, flavor with rumors and imaginative speculation, then bake for centuries, and the result is a bizarre mashup of fact and fiction that satisfies in our modern spooky times.
Vassil / CC0There are so many sacred mountains around the world. Perhaps every significant peak has its own mythical origin story. Pic de Bugarach, ranks near the top. Its geological oddness was recognized early in the scientific community as one of the “Pyrenean Paradoxes”. But the copious number of metaphysical claims about this particular mountain is striking. To demonstrate the weirdness, I can’t do better than to quote from a horrendous website called Mary Magdalene France Tours. I leave the spelling and punctuation as in the original:
Pic De Bugarach is both an energetic and geological phenomenon. Geologists say Bugarach is a mountain built upside down. Thousands of years ago when the formations of the Pyrenees Mountains were arising out from the earth one particular peak arose and was toppled over in this cataclysmic transition. […] From an energetic perspective Pic De Bugarach is one of the special power centers of the world holding a dynamic presence for the planet. This relatively small mountain, standing less than 4,000 feet above sea level and a two and a half-hour walk to the top from its base, is a Stargate. A conduit for energies (and possibly life-forms) from other dimensions and realities to pass into the earth, as well as move out from a deep source within the planet. Those with extrasensory abilities, perceive an invisible cloud-like formation directly above the small dome shape peak, it is the entry point into something beyond the human/earth experience, something at such a higher vibration few humans can comprehend all of what it is. […] It appears Pic De Bugarach was designed through the thousands of years for this very function as it has an energetic presence (most likely due to the Stargate) with lay lines streaming out in a variety of directions. The early places of worship were built on the lay lines and later Catholic Churches and Chateaus constructed their temples on the same spots.
Bart Sharp
The writer then meanders into musing about earth chakras, but I will spare you any more of this “sciencey New Age” (or “Sewage”) prattle. This source hits upon most of the claims about the mountain that circulate in fiction (which some think are fact), in paranormal circles, and in modern media. The town of Bugarach itself even capitalized on the weirdness for their own means.
Jcb-caz-11 / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)Claims
You don’t need extra-sensory ability to notice that the mountain above the sleepy commune-village of Bugarach has a certain presence. Its height at 1230m, while not towering, is enough to generate clouds that shroud the peak. Sources mentioned it is also called ”the crossroads of the four winds” and link it to Atlantis (of course). A few online sources give a magical origin to the peak saying (without reference) that the name is derived from the tale of two brave dwarfs (or children of Jupiter) called Bug and Arag who were granted a wish by the Gods. They wished for a mountain that would shelter the three regions of Roussillon, Corbieres, and Aude. More legitimate sources ignore that tale and opt for a more mundane naming of the village from a Roman settler.
The mountain has caves that are said to be “magical” or full of beautiful crystals. There are rumors of a river and lake under the mountain. There are also stories of old mines and burial crypts. The caves are linked to the colorful conspiratorial tales about Mary Magdalene, and even Jesus, escaping to France. The Cathars, a religious sect in opposition to the Catholics, supposedly hid sacred items in the area, including perhaps in these caves, and kept the location secret and protected. Pic de Bugarach is only about 20 miles from Rennes-le-Chateau, one of the rumored resting places of the lost treasure of the Knights Templars. Daniel Bettex was consumed by his search for the Ark of the Covenant in the mountain. In 1988, his correspondence to others relates that he was looking for the entrance to this hidden world of treasure. When he seemed days away from a revelatory discovery, he was found dead. The circumstances of his death were never made clear and feed additional conspiracies about clandestine groups still guarding the mountain and various secrets or treasures.
The most durable claim is that the mountain is a place of special energy. This is often associated with its unusual geology but also that it is located on the Paris meridian ley line and is part of a system of sacred geometry of earth features. The mountain is said to be “magnetic” and cause compasses to malfunction, so much so that planes will not fly over it because their equipment fails. The nebulous “energy” seems to affect some people positively and others negatively. Strange sounds and lights are said to come from inside. These arcane stories morphed in recent times to encompass the belief that the mountain was a UFO base. The caves, which were also thought to be a passage to the hollow earth or another dimension, were now a hiding place for alien craft.
LucasD / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)Inspiration
It is not altogether clear why the mountain of Bugarach was considered sacred and why it motivated many in the weaving of such fantastic yarns. Jules Verne was influenced by it and ultimately strengthened its mysterious nature. Bugarach is said to be where he found the inspiration (and the entrance) for his Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Famous sci-fi story weaver Stephen Spielberg also poked around here and may have formed ideas for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, prior to choosing Devils Tower in Wyoming as the alien rendezvous location. We can see several similarities between the two locations! But in several ways, Bugarach has the upper hand in weirdness.
The swirling mysteries of Pic de Bugarach coalesced in 2012 around the imaginative rumblings about the Mayan apocalypse. In the approach to the so-called doomsday, the mayor of Bugarach appealed to authorities to help him safeguard his village from the hoards of “esoterics” that were coming to the mountain because of its sacred energy. A narrative emerged that the alien craft holed up inside the mountain caves would emerge on the day of destruction and whisk away the lucky pilgrims. The mayor clearly embellished the stories as a way to push out unwanted visitors, depicting them as a possible suicide cult. The media took the bait, repeating many of the spooky and outrageous claims about the village’s magic mountain.
“These blasted prophets from all over the world have turned our mountain into some sort of UFO garage,”
Jean-Pierre Delord, mayor of Bugarach. Reuters
The hot topics of aliens and Mayans intersecting at one sacred mystical mountain were headline gold. The apocalypse at the end of 2012 in all aspects was a giant bust. The mountain was quiet; no crowds came.
ThierryS / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)Geology
What’s next is to unpack the actual geology of the Pic de Bugarach. Crazy stories are fun and popular and blatant errors will regularly be passed on and assumed to be factual. Several popular sources repeat the misleading information that the mountain was an ancient volcano. In one absurd book, author Richard Leviton (Walking in Albion, 2010) compares it to Tolkien’s land of Mordor. Although there are extinct volcanoes in the area, Pic de Bugarach isn’t one. Tales of smoke from the mountain are more likely from the clouds that readily condense around it.
Esoteric writer Phillip Coppens repeats that claim that Bugarach is an “upside down mountain” because the layers are millions of years older than the strata below. “It is as if someone shot the mountain in the air, flipped it around, and then it landed again.” Well… No. It’s not like that at all and no reasonable geologist would think this. But the analogy was gratuitously included in several media reports during the 2012 frenzy:
“Scientists say that is because when the 1,230-meter (4,040-foot) mountain erupted, its peak flipped upside down before crashing back down upon the mountain’s base.”
The peak of Bugarach has long been called “the sacred mountain”; geologists say that soon after the mountain was formed, it exploded and the top landed upside-down.
Maybe the media should ask an actual scientist/geologist instead of esotericists because, as we look back to the early days, geologists had a pretty good idea of what really happened here.
Back in the late 1800s, geology was congealing as a science, particularly in Europe. There was not just one but many “paradoxical” locations in the Pyrenees where the law of superposition appeared to be violated. The idea of nappes — large-scale overthrusts on a low angle fault plane caused by compression — had formed based on observations in the European Alps. Nappe (pronounced “nap”) belts were confirmed in similar locations: the Dinarides, Carpathians, and Balkans. Calling the circumstances nappe de charriage (thrust sheets), Marcel Alexandre Bertrand had examined earlier studies from the Glarus Alps and unraveled the tectonic story of rock layers that had been pushed, folded, and stacked upon each other like a rumpled cloth pushed across a table. The scientists of the time recognized the idea of compression of the crust but thought it was a result of the shrinking and cooling of the earth. The timing was just not right for anyone to recognize plate tectonics in action.
Parts of a nappe belt can become isolated when erosion dismembers the overthrust layer. These are called klippen. A klippe (pronounced “klip’-uh”) is an island of older rock with younger ones around it. So, it looks “upside down”. Pic de Bugarach is a klippe where Jurassic limestones were thrust over younger Cretaceous strata. In 1889, geologist M. Carez had determined Pic de Bugarach was related to charriage.
Rock masses are compressed so that the older rock (gray) over-rides the younger rock (white).
Later, erosion leaves windows and klippen as outliers.No scientist ever had seriously held that Pic de Bugarach was a volcano or a mountain top blown over. Perhaps the idea of “overthrown” strata in the description of the formation of a nappe was misinterpreted by someone who wasn’t versed in geological concepts, and the sciencey-sounding idea was interesting enough to repeat. There may be small caves in the limestone but this is not a developed karst system. It’s wishful thinking alone to expect that there are reasonable hiding places for treasure here, not to mention the existence of such treasures to begin with. The exaggerated tales of energy and magnetism are also unfounded. Such claims can easily be tested but people would rather keep repeating the magical stories instead.
Even today, Bugarach is still plagued by misleading publicity and opportunists. The New Age Sewage continues to be propagated, unabated by facts and reality. People collect and sell ‘authentic’ Pic de Bugarach pieces to sell to the esoterics worldwide, much like magical crystals.
Across the world, misunderstanding of geology and natural features can lead people to think certain places are sacred, abodes of the gods or spirits, or doorways to evil realms. Like molten blobs, the stories accrete onto the place. This isn’t always a bad thing, but it can be. And the nonsense can mask a more elegant truth underneath.
For the story of Bettex and the publicity over 2012 in Bugarach, check out the Unexplained Mysteries podcast. Part 1 and 2.
Additional References
Stuart-Menteath, P. W. (1903). “The Pyrenean Paradoxes,” Pyrenean Geology, Part III.
Trümpy, R. (2001). Why plate tectonics was not invented in the Alps. Int J Earth Sciences. 90: 477- 483.
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Pic de Bugarach: The mysterious mountain
Pic de Bugarach in Aude, France, is a place that effortlessly combines natural wonder and legends. Add to its history a heaping portion of serious scientific misunderstandings, flavor with rumors and imaginative speculation, then bake for centuries, and the result is a bizarre mashup of fact and fiction that satisfies in our modern spooky times.
Vassil / CC0There are so many sacred mountains around the world. Perhaps every significant peak has its own mythical origin story. Pic de Bugarach, ranks near the top. Its geological oddness was recognized early in the scientific community as one of the “Pyrenean Paradoxes”. But the copious number of metaphysical claims about this particular mountain is striking. To demonstrate the weirdness, I can’t do better than to quote from a horrendous website called Mary Magdalene France Tours. I leave the spelling and punctuation as in the original:
Pic De Bugarach is both an energetic and geological phenomenon. Geologists say Bugarach is a mountain built upside down. Thousands of years ago when the formations of the Pyrenees Mountains were arising out from the earth one particular peak arose and was toppled over in this cataclysmic transition. […] From an energetic perspective Pic De Bugarach is one of the special power centers of the world holding a dynamic presence for the planet. This relatively small mountain, standing less than 4,000 feet above sea level and a two and a half-hour walk to the top from its base, is a Stargate. A conduit for energies (and possibly life-forms) from other dimensions and realities to pass into the earth, as well as move out from a deep source within the planet. Those with extrasensory abilities, perceive an invisible cloud-like formation directly above the small dome shape peak, it is the entry point into something beyond the human/earth experience, something at such a higher vibration few humans can comprehend all of what it is. […] It appears Pic De Bugarach was designed through the thousands of years for this very function as it has an energetic presence (most likely due to the Stargate) with lay lines streaming out in a variety of directions. The early places of worship were built on the lay lines and later Catholic Churches and Chateaus constructed their temples on the same spots.
Bart Sharp
The writer then meanders into musing about earth chakras, but I will spare you any more of this “sciencey New Age” (or “Sewage”) prattle. This source hits upon most of the claims about the mountain that circulate in fiction (which some think are fact), in paranormal circles, and in modern media. The town of Bugarach itself even capitalized on the weirdness for their own means.
Jcb-caz-11 / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)Claims
You don’t need extra-sensory ability to notice that the mountain above the sleepy commune-village of Bugarach has a certain presence. Its height at 1230m, while not towering, is enough to generate clouds that shroud the peak. Sources mentioned it is also called ”the crossroads of the four winds” and link it to Atlantis (of course). A few online sources give a magical origin to the peak saying (without reference) that the name is derived from the tale of two brave dwarfs (or children of Jupiter) called Bug and Arag who were granted a wish by the Gods. They wished for a mountain that would shelter the three regions of Roussillon, Corbieres, and Aude. More legitimate sources ignore that tale and opt for a more mundane naming of the village from a Roman settler.
The mountain has caves that are said to be “magical” or full of beautiful crystals. There are rumors of a river and lake under the mountain. There are also stories of old mines and burial crypts. The caves are linked to the colorful conspiratorial tales about Mary Magdalene, and even Jesus, escaping to France. The Cathars, a religious sect in opposition to the Catholics, supposedly hid sacred items in the area, including perhaps in these caves, and kept the location secret and protected. Pic de Bugarach is only about 20 miles from Rennes-le-Chateau, one of the rumored resting places of the lost treasure of the Knights Templars. Daniel Bettex was consumed by his search for the Ark of the Covenant in the mountain. In 1988, his correspondence to others relates that he was looking for the entrance to this hidden world of treasure. When he seemed days away from a revelatory discovery, he was found dead. The circumstances of his death were never made clear and feed additional conspiracies about clandestine groups still guarding the mountain and various secrets or treasures.
The most durable claim is that the mountain is a place of special energy. This is often associated with its unusual geology but also that it is located on the Paris meridian ley line and is part of a system of sacred geometry of earth features. The mountain is said to be “magnetic” and cause compasses to malfunction, so much so that planes will not fly over it because their equipment fails. The nebulous “energy” seems to affect some people positively and others negatively. Strange sounds and lights are said to come from inside. These arcane stories morphed in recent times to encompass the belief that the mountain was a UFO base. The caves, which were also thought to be a passage to the hollow earth or another dimension, were now a hiding place for alien craft.
LucasD / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)Inspiration
It is not altogether clear why the mountain of Bugarach was considered sacred and why it motivated many in the weaving of such fantastic yarns. Jules Verne was influenced by it and ultimately strengthened its mysterious nature. Bugarach is said to be where he found the inspiration (and the entrance) for his Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Famous sci-fi story weaver Stephen Spielberg also poked around here and may have formed ideas for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, prior to choosing Devils Tower in Wyoming as the alien rendezvous location. We can see several similarities between the two locations! But in several ways, Bugarach has the upper hand in weirdness.
The swirling mysteries of Pic de Bugarach coalesced in 2012 around the imaginative rumblings about the Mayan apocalypse. In the approach to the so-called doomsday, the mayor of Bugarach appealed to authorities to help him safeguard his village from the hoards of “esoterics” that were coming to the mountain because of its sacred energy. A narrative emerged that the alien craft holed up inside the mountain caves would emerge on the day of destruction and whisk away the lucky pilgrims. The mayor clearly embellished the stories as a way to push out unwanted visitors, depicting them as a possible suicide cult. The media took the bait, repeating many of the spooky and outrageous claims about the village’s magic mountain.
“These blasted prophets from all over the world have turned our mountain into some sort of UFO garage,”
Jean-Pierre Delord, mayor of Bugarach. Reuters
The hot topics of aliens and Mayans intersecting at one sacred mystical mountain were headline gold. The apocalypse at the end of 2012 in all aspects was a giant bust. The mountain was quiet; no crowds came.
ThierryS / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)Geology
What’s next is to unpack the actual geology of the Pic de Bugarach. Crazy stories are fun and popular and blatant errors will regularly be passed on and assumed to be factual. Several popular sources repeat the misleading information that the mountain was an ancient volcano. In one absurd book, author Richard Leviton (Walking in Albion, 2010) compares it to Tolkien’s land of Mordor. Although there are extinct volcanoes in the area, Pic de Bugarach isn’t one. Tales of smoke from the mountain are more likely from the clouds that readily condense around it.
Esoteric writer Phillip Coppens repeats that claim that Bugarach is an “upside down mountain” because the layers are millions of years older than the strata below. “It is as if someone shot the mountain in the air, flipped it around, and then it landed again.” Well… No. It’s not like that at all and no reasonable geologist would think this. But the analogy was gratuitously included in several media reports during the 2012 frenzy:
“Scientists say that is because when the 1,230-meter (4,040-foot) mountain erupted, its peak flipped upside down before crashing back down upon the mountain’s base.”
The peak of Bugarach has long been called “the sacred mountain”; geologists say that soon after the mountain was formed, it exploded and the top landed upside-down.
Maybe the media should ask an actual scientist/geologist instead of esotericists because, as we look back to the early days, geologists had a pretty good idea of what really happened here.
Back in the late 1800s, geology was congealing as a science, particularly in Europe. There was not just one but many “paradoxical” locations in the Pyrenees where the law of superposition appeared to be violated. The idea of nappes — large-scale overthrusts on a low angle fault plane caused by compression — had formed based on observations in the European Alps. Nappe (pronounced “nap”) belts were confirmed in similar locations: the Dinarides, Carpathians, and Balkans. Calling the circumstances nappe de charriage (thrust sheets), Marcel Alexandre Bertrand had examined earlier studies from the Glarus Alps and unraveled the tectonic story of rock layers that had been pushed, folded, and stacked upon each other like a rumpled cloth pushed across a table. The scientists of the time recognized the idea of compression of the crust but thought it was a result of the shrinking and cooling of the earth. The timing was just not right for anyone to recognize plate tectonics in action.
Parts of a nappe belt can become isolated when erosion dismembers the overthrust layer. These are called klippen. A klippe (pronounced “klip’-uh”) is an island of older rock with younger ones around it. So, it looks “upside down”. Pic de Bugarach is a klippe where Jurassic limestones were thrust over younger Cretaceous strata. In 1889, geologist M. Carez had determined Pic de Bugarach was related to charriage.
Rock masses are compressed so that the older rock (gray) over-rides the younger rock (white).
Later, erosion leaves windows and klippen as outliers.No scientist ever had seriously held that Pic de Bugarach was a volcano or a mountain top blown over. Perhaps the idea of “overthrown” strata in the description of the formation of a nappe was misinterpreted by someone who wasn’t versed in geological concepts, and the sciencey-sounding idea was interesting enough to repeat. There may be small caves in the limestone but this is not a developed karst system. It’s wishful thinking alone to expect that there are reasonable hiding places for treasure here, not to mention the existence of such treasures to begin with. The exaggerated tales of energy and magnetism are also unfounded. Such claims can easily be tested but people would rather keep repeating the magical stories instead.
Even today, Bugarach is still plagued by misleading publicity and opportunists. The New Age Sewage continues to be propagated, unabated by facts and reality. People collect and sell ‘authentic’ Pic de Bugarach pieces to sell to the esoterics worldwide, much like magical crystals.
Across the world, misunderstanding of geology and natural features can lead people to think certain places are sacred, abodes of the gods or spirits, or doorways to evil realms. Like molten blobs, the stories accrete onto the place. This isn’t always a bad thing, but it can be. And the nonsense can mask a more elegant truth underneath.
For the story of Bettex and the publicity over 2012 in Bugarach, check out the Unexplained Mysteries podcast. Part 1 and 2.
Additional References
Stuart-Menteath, P. W. (1903). “The Pyrenean Paradoxes,” Pyrenean Geology, Part III.
Trümpy, R. (2001). Why plate tectonics was not invented in the Alps. Int J Earth Sciences. 90: 477- 483.
#aliens #ArkOfTheCovenant #Cathars #earthEnergy #esoterics #France #hiddenTreasure #Jesus #klippe #KnightsTemplar #leyLines #MaryMagdalene #MayanApocalypse #nappe #Pyrenees #sacredGeometry #Stargate #UFOs
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