Sunday, September 27, 2009

The Legend of “石拿督" (The Rock God?)

Entrance to the temple





The entrance to the Rock God's

太公钓鱼,愿者上钓 ?

The gate of the Dragon.

The trees
Journey to the West?...

Some crazy people trying to write their favourite '4d numbers' on temple's property.

There is one famous temple somewhere near Broga. It was called “石拿督" temple. One of the legends about this god is during the Japanese occupation at Malaya during World War II. All the people in the village were asked to gather in a school. Initially, the soldiers plan to massacre all the poor villagers who gathered in the school.

Right before the massacre begins, a Japanese officer came to the school just in time like a savior to all the villagers, he ordered all the soldiers to leave the village and not to harm any villagers. After the 'officer' left, some of the villagers believe that it was 'the Rock god' who sent the officer to help them.

Few days prior to that, some people actually heard there were screams and the sound of crying coming from the cave where they built the temple in later years. The locals believe that it was a warning sign to the villagers that they should go into hiding.

Nowadays, quite a lot of believers came to this temple to pray for 4d numbers and lottery numbers, quite a large number of people gain a fortune out of it, I think the temple's renovations are funded by some of the people who strike a fortune.

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