Video: Walking on water is possible in Korea: the place where the sea part
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Walk on water - it's not that difficult. If, of course, you are in Korea, on the Chindo archipelago. Twice a year, the sea literally opens up next to the flowering islands - that's when the huge crowds of Koreans use the good opportunity to take a walk on the water. Miracles in the sieve!
Many readers of Kulturologiya. Ru probably remember an episode from the biblical book "Exodus", in which the waters of the Red Sea miraculously make way for the Jews fleeing from Egypt. Experts have repeatedly argued that this is not so fantastic: ebb tides, and even enhanced by a tailwind, are really capable of working miracles. So next to the island of Chindo (the third largest in the archipelago of the same name) in February and June there is a grandiose low tide. As a result, a natural bridge opens under water, which connects the two islands (about 3 kilometers between them) by a road 10-40 meters wide.
Koreans happily seize on the opportunities given by nature, and immediately begin to walk on water (without even waiting for the Pharaoh). In a little over an hour, during which the water path is open, tens of thousands of people manage to make a small pilgrimage, as if under the leadership of Moses. It's funny that in the Far East, according to rumors, Koreans are perceived in much the same way as Jews in Europe.
WITH the custom of walking on water Koreans have their own legend. In time immemorial, Chindo Island was terrorized by tigers. All residents fled to a neighboring island, but forgot the old woman Ppong. She prayed to the Sea King (of course, it was a dragon), and the deity took pity on the old woman. The Sea King gave her good advice to walk the rainbow. Old Ppong obeyed, and in the morning the sea parted before her. So she was reunited with her family.
All this history and the phenomenon of Chindo Island became public knowledge when, in 1975, the French Ambassador to Korea Pierre Randy spoke about it for a newspaper. Currently, nearly half a million local and foreign tourists annually attend the "festival of parting water" on Chindo Island. And of course, walk on water.
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