[Terrapreta] God is Brazilian (story corrected)

[lou gold]

Friday, November 23, 2007
"GOD IS BRAZILIAN"<http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=nw20071120224922385C682342>,
Brazilian President
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Tuesday in response to his
government's announcement earlier this month that massive
new oil reserves had been discovered offshore.

And, the discovery of TERRA
PRETA<http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s2012892.htm>
may prove that She is Black.

[image: Aparecida] <http://www.flickr.com/photos/visionshare/2044332878/>


This image is of the much-revered Black Madonna of Brazil, Nossa Senhora de
Conceição Aperacida -- Our Lady of Conception Who Appeared.

The story is that a statue of the Virgin made around 1650 was somehow lost.
Then, in 1717, some government people were traveling north to the gold
mining region of Minas Gerais where the precious metal was called Ouro
Pretodue to a dark coating on the nuggets. Along the way fishermen
cast net in a
river to catch for fish for a big banquet. Instead of fish, they found the
statue -- all darkened by years in the river bed. The travelers went on but
the statue was kept in a little family shrine.

Soon the statue appeared to have healing and wish-granting powers -- at
least for some faithful ones -- and a cult began to grow around it. As time
passed, it had to be housed in larger and larger quarters and came to be
venerated throughout Brazil. In 1929, the Virgin was proclaimed Queen of
Brazil and its official Patron Saint. Today its Basilica, in the city of
Aparecida near São Paulo, receives about 7 million visitors yearly and is
the largest Marion shrine in the
world<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Aparecida>
.

>From the first time I saw this great Black Madonna, the symbol appeared as
an icon of the power of the earth. And, nowadays, there is a possible a
parallel with the story of 200 hundred years ago. As the Brazilian state oil
firm Petrobras looks for and discovers another kind of Ouro Preto in the
form of oil extracted from the ocean depths, Terra Preta soil from deep in
Amazônia may be emerging as the healing force of the earth.

It would be Brazil's great good fortune to receive both.
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