2. any terrible force, especially one that destroys or that demands complete self-sacrifice
3. any relentless, destructive, irresistible force
I gather that in the annual Puri festival there are actually THREE juggernaut chariots, equally huge but each with a specified number of wheels and assorted other technical variables. Goodness knows how many tonnes each one weighs, but the weight is probably doubled by the hundreds of devotees who are allowed to climb on board during transit.
The juggernaut is of course replete with symbolism. It is not actually unstoppable; it demands and consumes vast resources of capital, manpower and energy; and if you do not pay attention while hauling it along, it is all too easy to slip and get crushed beneath those monstrous wheels........
Just thought you would like to know.......
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Point 1:.... "formALLY".....or should it be"formerly"??......I'm not a devoted from India, I'm Yorkshire.
Yeah, used the Ocean Liner analogy myself recently...but the Juggernaut analogy is also replete with irony, since in this context it is being used regarding the relentless desire to insist upon the hauling by brawny probably hairy males/ females of "trophy" stones a long, long way, just to justify the pay grades of a motley collection of senior archaeologists scattered across England (and Scotland) possessed of their version of prehistoric spiritual Nirvana. Are THEY for REAL??
The relevance, also, of my Ocean Liner analogy is that, if those insisting on their human transport ruling hypothesis don't admit the very EXISTENCE of the glaciation alternative theory, the ocean liner, on its stoical course, may end up challenged out of existence when a major glacier looms up before them! [it's coming......soon]
You don't even need a glacier -- a diddy little iceberg will do the job perfectly well. If you spot it at all, it looks innocuous enough, but it's definitely not a good idea to collide with it if your ship is not ice strengthened.....
Aaah, but I was still within my analogy! After all, you and I are advocates of the Glaciation Theory!
Incidentally, that person
at the UCL who shall remain nameless, replying to me at last November's National Park Zoom get - together, managed just to say, (about our preferred Theory)........... "that boat doesn't float"!!
Talk of Juggernauts as analogies brings back to mind Children's Radio long ago.....when Uncle Mac ( before MPP's time) played " The Runaway Train rolled down the track and she blew......the last we heard she was blowing still".....
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