We need to be careful about applying interpretations and superimposing concepts, across thousands of years, from one civilization onto iconography of another civilization that we don't understand
It was in front of this statue, late at night, at the CERN facility that someone videoed with their phone what appeared to be a ritual sacrifice - in the video it looks like a woman gets stabbed. It was uploaded to the internet and instantly people said it must be a hoax. I looked into it and there was never any police investigation, there was only an internal CERN investigation and they quickly labelled it a prank. But I don't believe the person who uploaded the video ever came forward and said that. And in the video, to me he seems genuinely shocked when he sees the ritual.
Yeah I saw that video just now. I think it's a hoax, mainly because there is no tradition of human sacrifice in the name of Shiva in India. Also that "ritual" is looks like it's designed to appeal to a Western audience: All elements are picked from Western culture. An Indian ritual would look very, very different. Examples: Cloaks aren't worn in India. The rituals in the Sanskrit texts are very complicated and take very long. The worship would also be offered to a Shiva Linga and never a Shiva statue etc.
Indians are largely vegetarian for religious reasons, and in fact, it is considered a transgression to offer anything other than lacto-vegetarian food to Shiva. You can verify this with any Hindu.
I think if the ritual was genuine it had nothing really to do with Shiva or Ancient Indian traditions. More likely to be some kind of modern occult appropriation - To bestow future success on endeavors at CERN. They could think of the circle Shiva as representative of their collider. Personally I don't think of CERN as a high-minded scientific endeavor, nor some mad attempt to "open a portal" or whatever like some do - I believe it's a monstrously insane, ignorant and wasteful endeavor being conducted largely by secret society charlatans rather than people genuinely interested and concerned with scientific observation and truth. All of their "discoveries" are pure fiction concocted by themselves in an elaborate and convoluted madness. It's another story I guess. But if you consider the project in that mindset, some kind of murderous ritual sacrifice might be just the kind of thing they engage in.
I think if the ritual was genuine it had nothing really to do with Shiva or Ancient Indian traditions. More likely to be some kind of modern occult appropriation
That could be true. Wouldn't be the first time. Another example: Theosophy (and the ensuing New Age Movement) is built on concepts from Yoga, Buddhism etc. but its beliefs have nothing to do with these. Rather Blavatsky was a Luciferian.
As someone who is familiar with the Indian version, the whole new age movement gives me a dark vibe. In the name of spirituality, they're actually undermining the moral framework of society from something shared to something individualistic. The implication is that there is no common understanding of right and wrong shared by the majority anymore (no unity), leading to a widening of the moral Overton window (because who is to say what's wrong), an attitude which will lead to degeneracy, and ultimately civilizational instability.
Just FYI
That's a statue of Nataraja (Shiva) gifted to CERN by the Indian government. So the statue itself is probably there for a benign reason.
Shiva goes back to the Indus Valley Civilization, displayed on Pashupatinath seals (based on new evidence, the civilization is now considered 8000 years old: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3621622/Indus-Valley-civilisation-pre-date-Egypt-s-pharoahs-Ancient-society-2-500-years-older-thought.html), far before the timeline of the bible and even the Egyptian civilization, and in a geographically distant part of the world.
We need to be careful about applying interpretations and superimposing concepts, across thousands of years, from one civilization onto iconography of another civilization that we don't understand
It was in front of this statue, late at night, at the CERN facility that someone videoed with their phone what appeared to be a ritual sacrifice - in the video it looks like a woman gets stabbed. It was uploaded to the internet and instantly people said it must be a hoax. I looked into it and there was never any police investigation, there was only an internal CERN investigation and they quickly labelled it a prank. But I don't believe the person who uploaded the video ever came forward and said that. And in the video, to me he seems genuinely shocked when he sees the ritual.
Yeah I saw that video just now. I think it's a hoax, mainly because there is no tradition of human sacrifice in the name of Shiva in India. Also that "ritual" is looks like it's designed to appeal to a Western audience: All elements are picked from Western culture. An Indian ritual would look very, very different. Examples: Cloaks aren't worn in India. The rituals in the Sanskrit texts are very complicated and take very long. The worship would also be offered to a Shiva Linga and never a Shiva statue etc.
Indians are largely vegetarian for religious reasons, and in fact, it is considered a transgression to offer anything other than lacto-vegetarian food to Shiva. You can verify this with any Hindu.
I think if the ritual was genuine it had nothing really to do with Shiva or Ancient Indian traditions. More likely to be some kind of modern occult appropriation - To bestow future success on endeavors at CERN. They could think of the circle Shiva as representative of their collider. Personally I don't think of CERN as a high-minded scientific endeavor, nor some mad attempt to "open a portal" or whatever like some do - I believe it's a monstrously insane, ignorant and wasteful endeavor being conducted largely by secret society charlatans rather than people genuinely interested and concerned with scientific observation and truth. All of their "discoveries" are pure fiction concocted by themselves in an elaborate and convoluted madness. It's another story I guess. But if you consider the project in that mindset, some kind of murderous ritual sacrifice might be just the kind of thing they engage in.
That could be true. Wouldn't be the first time. Another example: Theosophy (and the ensuing New Age Movement) is built on concepts from Yoga, Buddhism etc. but its beliefs have nothing to do with these. Rather Blavatsky was a Luciferian.
As someone who is familiar with the Indian version, the whole new age movement gives me a dark vibe. In the name of spirituality, they're actually undermining the moral framework of society from something shared to something individualistic. The implication is that there is no common understanding of right and wrong shared by the majority anymore (no unity), leading to a widening of the moral Overton window (because who is to say what's wrong), an attitude which will lead to degeneracy, and ultimately civilizational instability.