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Can you guys think of some examples--either historical or based in history--of legends about great leaders who disappeared but will return at a time of crisis? I can only think of two, King Arthur and Constantine XI, but I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting or that come from historical/literary traditions I'm not as familiar with.
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Vishnu has quite a few avatars. The last avatar, Kalki, hasn't come yet. He's supposed to show up on a white horse with a big sword when the world has sunk into evil ways, wars abound, and pestilence is everywhere. He will end the Kali Yuga and usher in the new age.
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His followers called him Mahajimatman. And said he was a god. He preferred Jimi. He never claimed to be a god. But then, times being what they were, he never claimed not to be.
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Well the Dalai Lama kind of fits the bill, inasmuch as it's believed he will be continually reincarnated until he feels his mission is done.
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Strange that it did not sound back in WW2, but then again I guess England was not in real danger, America was there for the last minute save.
If you had read your own link, you'd have seen that it sounded during the Dunkirk evacuation, when you lot were still sucking your thumbs and hoping all the nasty Europeans would just go away and not bother you.
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King Wenceslaus, and I'd avoid living in the Czech Republic. If all the horrors visited on the Czech people in the 20th century were not enough to bring him back they must really be in for some hard times.
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quote:If you had read your own link, you'd have seen that it sounded during the Dunkirk evacuation, when you lot were still sucking your thumbs and hoping all the nasty Europeans would just go away and not bother you.
And your lot couldn't help at Dunkirk because they had already been taken over, thanks in part to your lot's unwillingness to get off your thumbs during winter 1939-40.
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