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Hindu Statue Sheds Tears After Quake: Bali School
Jakarta Globe | October 14, 2011

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JohnnyCool
6:10pm Oct 16, 2011

Saraswati is the Hindu goddess of knowledge. Her statue in the Bangli school may well have been "crying" BEFORE the earthquake. "Crying" because the school headmaster doesn't have a good grip on reality, along with many of his students.

On the other hand, this may simply be an attempt to make Bangli more "appealing" in the wake of the recent tribal fiasco, not to mention the cases of bird-flu. A marketing strategy of some kind.

Not to worry - the "paranormal experts" will sort this out...Yeah - right.

wisaksana
2:48pm Oct 16, 2011

@TGIF: perhaps you may have raised a valid point. However, to be fair, let's allow them to seek guidance from 'paranormal experts' who are of course the best people with whom to consult in such cases.

Oh, and perhaps our esteemed representatives in Parliament would like to do a 'studi banding'? I'm sure they're able to find a comparable country.

TGIF
4:44am Oct 16, 2011

Excuse my French, but the statue sits three meters high in a water fountain. Could it be that the water splashing upwards from a sudden jolt somehow splash the head of the statue and logically drips down??

jusdogin
8:04pm Oct 14, 2011

er not really

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A number of people have flocked to a junior high school in Bali’s Bangli district to view a statue of a Hindu goddess that students say began shedding tears after Thursday’s earthquake.

The statue, which is of the goddess Saraswati, sits three meters high in a water fountain in the courtyard of SMPN 1 in Susut.

The alleged tears were first spotted by students, and their claims are now being taken up by school officials who say the tears are a symbol of Thursday’s disaster, which saw dozens of people injured.

“The statue looks like a person crying,” said Dewa, a student at the school. “We were surprised.”

Sukarsana, the school’s headmaster, said that after inspecting the statue, he believed it was in fact shedding real tears.

“We, the school, plan to ask for suggestions from paranormal experts to understand the phenomenon of the goddess Saraswati crying,” he said, as quoted by Okezone.