Hey, Turi, stick this up your prognosticator! You should've used rice
porridge as many divinators had recommended, but, noooooo, you just had to
be the know-it-all ***** and use bean soup instead!
Maybe this episode will teach you a lesson: beans are a sluggish conduit
to the future. You could've been first on the psychic draw, but you blew
it!
Rice beats beans anyday, you flatulent fool.
Last Update: Monday, March 21, 2005. 7:36pm (AEDT)
Rice porridge ritual predicted Japan quake
An annual ritual at a 1,200-year-old Shinto shrine predicted a major
earthquake in southern Japan five days before the tremor rocked the
region, a priest said.
In the fortune-telling ceremony using rice porridge, the Chiriku
Hachimangu shrine in Miyaki town in the Kyushu region warned on March 15
of a quake even though the area is historically less prone to tremors.
The shrine offers a bowl of porridge to the altar every February 26 and
takes it back on March 15.
A man from a family that has been been telling fortunes for generations
then examines the surface to make predictions.
"It was good porridge this year with a shiny surface and not much mould
.... but I saw a rare crack," chief priest Masahiro Higashi told AFP.
After receiving the forecast from the fortune-teller, the priest told
residents on March 15 the upcoming year would be mild with an average
harvest.
"But be careful and be prepared for earthquakes," he added in the
televised forecast.
"I think people were surprised to see the prediction come true but I
myself was also surprised," he said.
Sunday's quake, which measured 7.0 on the Richter scale, killed one woman,
injured hundreds and damaged more than 600 houses in Kyushu.
- AFP
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1328514.htm
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