(A Japanese dining car 100 years ago…)Helen Keller, Kumagusu Minakata, and Ancient Egyptians
(Helen Keller, Kumagusu Minakata, et ancien Egyptiens)
A late-night news program in Japan showed a rare picture: Helen Keller at age eight being taught by her female teacher.
Then I checked a book written around 1920 by a famous Japanese biologist, Kumagusu Minakata, since he had extraordinary visual power.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minakata_Kumagusu
Kumagusu Minakata introduced various anecdotal accounts
in his book on the twelve animals, such as a rat and a snake, or horary (time-period) signs of Oriental Zodiac: “Jyu-ni-shi-Kou.”
http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%8D%81%E4%BA%8C%E6%94%AF%E8%80%83%E3%80%88%E4%B8%8A%E3%80%89-%E5%B2%A9%E6%B3%A2%E6%96%87%E5%BA%AB-%E5%8D%97%E6%96%B9-%E7%86%8A%E6%A5%A0/dp/4003313917
According to this book, he happened to find that he could see movements of molecule-size of snow, which were so dramatic like movements of players in some Japanese traditional theatrical art, in a dark room when he was studying at the Michigan State School of Agriculture, the U.S., in late 1880’s.
His extraordinary visual acuity was reported at page 40 in the 1914 Edition of the Bulletin of the British Mycological Society as he also studied and worked in London in the early 20th century; Kumagusu Minakata could see a spore case of a spore bearing plant without using a microscope , which bewildered some Bristish scientists at the era.
He wrote, in a chapter dealing with the swine as one of the twelve signs of the Chinese (and Japanese) zodiac, that there was a report at page 126 of the 1864 Edition of The Year Book by Hone (?) that a swine could see a wind.
Kumagusu Minakata was not only a world-class biologist then, but also has been regarded as one of the most knowledgeable men in the Japanese history.
His activities, though as a private biological scholar and researcher in a local prefecture in Japan before WWII, are today regarded as those of early initiatives for environmental protection and preservation of the original nature in Japan.
It is also said that Showa Emperor, having been guided on the nature of Wakayama Pref. by Kumagusu Minakata when the Emperor had been young before WWII, later dedicated his poetry to Minakata as the first mentioning a private person in the Emperor’s poems after WWII, namely 30 years after their meeting on board an Imperial Navy’s battle ship near the Kashima Island both as a specific type of biologists:
“Through the rain I see the dim figure of Kashima
in the distance which reminds me of Kumagusu
who was born in Wakayama”
(as translated in the above Wikipedia site...)
Indeed, it is very extraordinary that a name of a private person is referred to in a poetry rendered by the Emperor of Japan.
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Kumagusu Minakata wrote thousands of worldwide anecdotes in his books and some magazines.
I was especially interested in the following:
“Ancient Egyptians thought a man consists of five elements: his soul, his sub-soul, his name, his shadow, and his body.”
Minakata also wrote that ancient Egyptians had believed that a god appears when his name is called.
It means that gods hide their names, but when called by their name they have to fulfill a wish of a man who has called their name.
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So, calling Yahweh or El, or otherwise Allah, has a significant meaning.
But, Jesus Christ only called God Father in Heaven.
There might be a key to understanding the religion of Jesus Christ as a man, though I am respectfully afraid in saying this.
(Now, you know why they presented the picture of Helen Keller in the late-night TV news program.
Even a swine can see a movement of wind.
A genius can see a molecular movement of snow flakes.
But, who is allowed to see truth beyond time and space?
Read EEE-Reports though you do not have to call the Repoter's name at all.)
“Go back home, and tell what God has done for you…”
(Gehen Sie zurück zu Hause, und sagen, was Gott für Sie getan hat.)