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  • Lynch on Mexico April 16th 1964 Crowds gather his workers prepare to transport one of the largest monolithic statues in the world.

  • 23 feet tall and weighing 100 and 60 tons.

  • The massive idol dates back over 1000 years, and although workers are extremely careful with their preparations as they loaded onto the trucks that will carry it, there's a palpable tension in the air because this is no ordinary statue but one of the mighty Aztec God for La Lock.

  • The Aztec religious system had a vast number of gods.

  • There were water, gods and goddesses.

  • There were sky gods and goddesses, fire divinities and earth divinities.

  • One particularly important sacred God.

  • It was still a lot of fertility, divinity associated with weather and thunder and lightning.

  • So it is fear.

  • But it is also greatly revered because life comes from this.

  • The life giving waters of the rain come from a lock.

  • More than 25,000 people eagerly wait into the night to welcome class bloke to his view home in Mexico City after his long journey.

  • But as the trucks carrying the hooking statue finally arrived, the crowd isn't expecting what would arrive along with him.

  • The statue was erected.

  • Suddenly the heavens opened out of several dies.

  • That was intense.

  • Ryan and Thunder stores.

  • This was done in the summer months when, in theory, there should be very little right home.

  • This was so uncharacteristic of this time of year rain during the dry season, most people would see such an occurrence has nothing more than a coincidence.

  • But some believe the rain was actually a good omen, sent by clock in response to the warm welcome he received from the Mexican people.

  • Certainly a lot of people believe that these events, for example, that downpour following the arrival of a lock are connected, and perhaps they're connected because of the divine force.

  • Or perhaps it's actually the believers belief on their faith that is helping to shape these events.

  • So certainly, face is powerful.

  • The fact is that it doesn't really matter because it's about belief.

  • If people believe strongly enough in an object that can create a reality, an ancient god of rain that triggers a massive thunderstorm just a coincidence, or was there something more mysterious at work?

  • Well, how about the Kohinoor diamond?

  • Would you were, uh or are you among those who believe that stones really can possess special powers?

  • Powers it for now, keep the very much among don't explain.

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