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I searched and searched for a prayer temple in Nepal that was overrun with monkeys but could not find one. I did however find one in Jaipur, Indonesia. August said the prayer temples were carved into the mountains and that is what seems to be indicated in these pics.
The interesting thing I found when looking for lemurs outside of Nepal was a connection to the lost city of Atlantis!!! The continent that submerged under water was called Lemuria because of all the Lemurs!! I’m probably really grasping at straws trying to connect August to Atlantis but hey, he does have a thing about water as has been pointed out on this forum.
Please join in with your thoughts on this theory!
[adrotate group="5"]The Lemuria sunken continent stuff is interesting, especially as you say, he seems to have a certain admiration of water.
Also, in Roman mythology, there are figures called “lemures”. Here’s the wiki page on ’em: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemures (it mentions a couple of “Augustan poets” right there in the first paragraph, which is a fun lil connection to his name).
One thing we can take for certain from that scene is that August is a lying liar who lies about temples and monkeys and Nepal and lemurs. I so wish he’d scratched his itchy nose right after telling Ruby those lies, coz that right there woulda been inconclusive evidence as to his Pinocchio-ness. 😛
One thing we can take for certain from that scene is that August is a lying liar who lies about temples and monkeys and Nepal and lemurs. I so wish he’d scratched his itchy nose right after telling Ruby those lies, coz that right there woulda been inconclusive evidence as to his Pinocchio-ness.
That gave me a good laugh! Thanks for that Phee!!
I know that I could be crazy off with this one but as soon as he said monkeys I thought of the kind that fly…as in OZ…and I know I saw a pic of his bike somewhere and it had a license plate that was from Kansas…I need to find that picture…If anyone comes up with it please share, but I am pretty sure thats where it was from. Which would be interesting.
I finally found the temple I was looking for in Nepal that has monkeys!
It’s in Swayambhunath Stupa, Kathmandu , Nepal & it’s known by the locals as quite literally ‘the monkey temple’.
It’s actually a rather well known temple because if you climb to the top of the temple ( 300+ steps ) the prayer at this temple is worth 13 billion times the amount of prayers that are prayed at other temples ( this is based on the Buddhist belief that when you turn a prayer wheel, it sends the prayer around the world).
I need to go back and watch the episode where August is telling Ruby about Nepal. Does he say things that could be separate statements … but taken to be about the same thing by his listener?
You know, like “There are these prayer temples in Nepal.” and “There are places that are overrun by lemurs.”?
Because then, you know, he’s not lying. Just … misleading. 😉
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“Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”
-- Dylan ThomasEh, just watched the beginning again. The quote goes like this:
“Nepal. Best people. They have these prayer temples … carved into mountains that are overrun with lemurs.”
“They’re little animals and they have these eyes that reflect light, so at night it looks like they glow.”Hmm. I suppose it you broke it off so that “Nepal. Best people.” and “They have these …” are two different statements … but even I think that’s reaching. 😉
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“Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”
-- Dylan ThomasI’m still bothered by the fact that he says lemurs not monkeys. Lemurs are only found in Madagascar. It’s possible the writers made an oops and that August is not lying. That whole reference to Nepal is starting to seem like a red herring to me! My brain is starting to hurt just like it did with Lost 🙄
Did you ever think you would be searching and searching for monkey temples? Lol! Iv been looking up Kansas, 1984, and all kinds of stuff. I laughed so loud and hard when I read your post it hurt my tummy. Thank you as iv been having a rough night.
Yeah. I just looked up lemurs on Wikipedia. 😎 🙄 I hear you.
Funny, it says that lemurs arrived in Madagascar a looooong time ago by effectively rafting on dried vegetation. (I love that image. 😆 ) So maybe August is just really, really old? And once upon a time (hehe) there were lemurs in Nepal?
I’m mostly kidding. 😎 Mostly.
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“Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”
-- Dylan Thomas
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