I know this isn’t the greatest photo, but if you squint your eyes you might be able to see the pale image of Virgin Mary on the side of this VW. Or, try covering your left eye AND squinting.
And if you really look hard, you might see Jesus peering down from what vaguely looks like an air-conditioning unit on a roof in the distance. Oh, and the stain in the concrete towards the foreground — I think it’s Moses.
We’re bracing for throngs of believers. I’ll be first in line.
Virgin Car, a painting of the Virgin Mary on a VW bug
parked near Old Town, Albuquerque, October 6, 2007.
You went and saw “Tortilla Heaven” didn’t you?
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No, but I did bid on the grilled cheese sandwich.
Joking.
How did I miss Tortilla Heaven?
I did see a weeping virgin statue in Ho Chi Minh City. I believe that was where it was. That year I traveled to so many places, I’ve forgotten. Geez. I’ll have to consult my notebooks.
Hey, the Virgin de Guadalupe once appeared in a strawberry that I got on my shoulder after falling off my mountain bike. Unfortunately, I was the only one who could see her.
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That is so not right. I actually believed you about all of the squinting stuff, then doubted my own sanity when the image on the bug was actually quite obvious. I thought my matrixing thingie was in hyper-drive. Thanks, ybonesy!
P.S. I still can’t find the air-conditioning unit.
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LOL. Gotcha!
OK, at least the Jesus and Moses are only there if you squint. For the Jesus, got to the roofline of the last house for which you can see a roofline. Move right from the a/c unit to something that looks like a rectangular shape. It’s floating right above the right-most edge of the roof. See it??
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You can’t see any of the heavenly ones on any food around here, or on cars and buildings, but you sure can feel the Devil in my lecso whenever I serve it.
Wasn’t Moses just a bit of a stretch? What’s he doing? Smashing the Commandments or parting the Red Sea? G
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Oh! So by “Jesus” you mean “oddly-placed telephone booth”. Gotcha, ybonesy!
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My God, I can already see my Sisters’ interagating this like two CSI’s with a magnifying glass…
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Too funny!
I’ve got a fossil fish that looks either like a portrait Charles Darwin or a Mormon / JW missionary depending on which way you look at it. I promise to post it with a link to this when I get back.
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Yeah, Moses is a bit of a stretch, G. But I can tell it’s him by the way he split a bit of the concrete where the bug is parked.
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Sam, the fact that the telephone booth floats above the roofline is even more proof that Jesus is at work…
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Heather, let me know what your sisters discover. For all I know, there is a nativity scene somewhere and I just can’t find it.
Ian — can’t wait to see the fossil. I think it probably contains both and is making a statement about Creationism versus Evolution.
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That is wicked cool!! 😀
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What I know:
someone is living in a parallel universe
What I don’t know:
is it the people who have biblical figures jumping out at them from every side? Or the people who don’t?
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Further thought: if that debate is to be judged by dispassionate neutrals, who belong to neither category and are not involved, what is the third category, the one to which the neutrals belong?
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Neutered, perhaps? Ouch. No, that’s no good.
You’re asking the wrong person, because truth is, I believe in the weeping Marys and the Marys who show up in the water stained Chicago tunnel and all the rest.
My mom — a nonbeliever all my life until about three years ago — told me that she saw the Mary statue at a church weeping when her (my mom’s) mother died. That was huge. To hear my mom, the woman who got the confessional door slammed in her face after she had me, tell us that she saw the Mary statue weep during Grandma’s funeral mass.
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I totally see the face of Jesus.
Believe it or not, if you see, you see.
I love looking at wallpaper patterns and tiles, or stucco covered with thick paint. So many faces. Who’s to say who the face belongs to? This is a post we can all understand. We’re your first believers, congregating here.
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YB, by the time my Sisters get done, they’ll have seen not only Jesus, Mary and Moses but an Alien life form in a tree…and they’ll find Waldo for you too!
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Cool foto. I see La Virgen y JesusCristo. Moses? Is that a side profile of him? All that’s lacking to make it an official apparition is a Pepper Tree somewhere in the photo.
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Gracias, Chano. It’s whatever you see. Hey, what’s the meaning of the Pepper Tree in religious iconography and apparitions? Could it be that round shrub to the left is a Pepper Tree??
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Yb
will I get punched if I say that it’s more complicated than believing or not believing?
What I was really alluding to (flippantly) is the age-old philosophical connundrum about whether we not only in some sense create the life we have by the way we live, but whether we also create the world we live in by the way we see.
If Catholics see the virgin, Buddhists the Buddha and Communists – Lenin or Mao?: actually, I don’t know – that doesn’t mean that any of those ways of seeing devalues any other.
But are any of us prepared to take on board the possibility that we live in a world where there is NO reality other than the subjective one created by the perceiver? – I think that’s the nature of the debate, if I’ve got it right.
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stranger, I think it’s a bit of both. Maybe NO reality. And maybe reality IS what we think it is. It seems similar to the nurture vs nature argument. What influences the way we see? Environment? Personality? Or the nature of living. All of the arguments in the debate are valid. As all religions are valid.
I, personally, can’t get on board with the NO other reality. It’s too bleak. And hopeless. And I need my reality to be mixed with a more hopeful existence than that. I believe in parallel universes. I see evidence of a HP in action every day. And also evidence of the darkness of shadow. I want to keep moving toward the light.
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Well, whether we are prepared or not, we will live in whatever our world is. If it’s one in which there’s little openness to different beliefs, than so be it. We will become at once more plural and more narrow. What’s the word I’m looking for? Splintered. Or not.
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Is this right?:
our common enemy is
a) the fanatic, the untolerating, the self-certain one and
b) the one who wants someone else to tell them how to be
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there she goes again, appearing in odd places.
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Yep, she’s mysterious like that.
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stranger, yes.
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And, so far, nobody has said, “Seeing is Believing.”
I can’t believe it!
I about fell out of the chair laughing, ybonesy!
Oh, and I see the Jesus…
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