Show tap ap villagers kneel at mound they call cal I 1 christs burial place OKYO peasants in a remote ra northern japanese village do not ele e brate r christmas as but they believe sus esus christ died in japan nor are they christians but each S aar ar they kneel before a strange bound which they believe is christs rial place this takes place at the village of arai rai where buddhists or 3 ther ather each year around a mound I 1 ir mounted by a pillar on which are ree japanese characters and a 7 x P pointed hinted star composed of inter sac bicking icking ing triangles like the hebrew chow how this strange tradition arrived f japan is not known but visitors atice tice that the village which is 10 lo abed in almori near the extreme p of honshu island is no great istance south of mount ti chich h is pronounced almost like the modern de r n japanese word for jew 0 the six pointed star is completely reign to the people yet some peas ats are familiar with the biblical irston of christs death the ao orian story which they have be eved for 20 centuries is this inuring the reign of the emperor binin the eleventh emperor a pung white man came to live in ie e district twelve years later at fe e age of 34 he disappeared his yome ame Sora itaro fifteen years later he ret returned arned hd fid told the people he had been to r e land of his birth teaching reli ae on and that because of his beliefs ad d c been sentenced to death by cru If fi xion Sora itaro is then said to have told WHERE CHRIST BURIED IS KY pacific ocean the natives that his younger brother iskari sacrificed his own life on the cross then he traveled for four years across europe and through siberia finally reaching almori again he died at the age of in the eleventh year of keiko bennos reign near the alleged burial mound is the ruin of a stone building which villagers call tsukino the house of the moon many foreign articles are reported to have been unearthed from this place people say it is the place where jesus worshiped s they do not worship his memory in a religious way nor is the mound especially sacred they describe jesus as a seijin sei jin a saint or wise man |