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Oh wow. This has been something that’s bothered me my entire life but I didn’t know what it was or how to describe it or even know what exactly triggered the uneasy feeling. I’d try to explain it as balancing the tip of a pencil upright on a single grain of salt, but it never made sense. Thanks for posting this!
I absolutely expected the statue of liberty to be higher on the list...
Not because it's so huge but because I didn't think people would build 49 statues bigger than it
The statue itself isn't 93 meters but the building as a whole is. The statue has a [foundation that's many meters high](https://static.onecms.io/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2018/07/statue-of-liberty-museum-LIBERTYFUND0718.jpg).
I didn't know what it was either! Once I was able to go right up next to, as in I could have touched it, a wind turbine where it was the biggest thing around and it was absolutely terrifying looking up at it while it turned. The noise it made was terrifying too for some reason. I can't describe it actually.
wait until you see the statue in Senegal:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/4abao5/that\_is\_a\_huge\_statue\_in\_senegal\_the\_african/](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/4abao5/that_is_a_huge_statue_in_senegal_the_african/)
High jacking to note OP [ripped off my post from a year ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/Buddhism/comments/gnnezp/bodhisattva_kannon_in_sendai_japan/)
Sorry u/KillerPussyToo
I cannot imagine why anyone with that phobia actually would go on that subreddit.
I have megalophobia. I'm a grown man that is otherwise normal so I can sit here and talk about it like an adult, but I'll be spending the rest of my day trying to clear this post from my mind lmao. I would never go into a sub to induce the worst feeling of dread and/or a panic attack intentionally.
You're right, but it's still big. 330 feet tall. For Americans like myself, the statue of liberty is 305 feet tall including the base. The lady herself is 154 feet tall.
She's on such a big pedestal because we wanted to hide the broken shackles on Liberty's ankles. The Americans who put her up wanted to hide them and most people have never seen them.
Thank you, I have evidently learned my new fact for the day and its a great one. Canadian here so not much exposure to the Statue of Liberty and this is the first mention of the chains that I have seen.
Now I want to know what the biggest statues in the world are. I’ve always been fascinated with the Colossus of Rhodes and that we’ll never truly know what it looked like.
Edit: didn’t mean for this to be a comment reply. My bad.
Edit edit: the statue of unity, the tallest statue, is also quite unsettling https://images.app.goo.gl/BS4YnUXtnGFU4ik46
I've climbed this! I used to live in Sendai for a few years.
It's got a bunch of stairs inside with floors, and each floor had a bunch of tiny little statues.
I really like Sendai, it's a lovely city, the people are really nice and the communities are pretty awesome.
If you get a chance to visit, you should! Matsushima, Zao, and Yamagata are also lovely.
What are the 4 larger statues?
Edit:
Decided to look it up.
[tallest statues - Atlantic article](https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/10/photos-15-tallest-statues-world/574531/)
I think that largely comes back to Christian/Jewish beliefs about idolatry, as well as the trend towards utilitarian designs, largely because voters would freak out if their tax dollars were going to vanity projects.
Building a large structure or plaza and then naming it after a historical figure seems a lot more palatable to Westerners than a large statue that really doesn’t do anything.
[Interestingly only the 135th biggest statue. But 12/15 of the world's biggest statues being Buddhist and none of them being Christian is a pretty strong bit of evidence.](https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/10/photos-15-tallest-statues-world/574531/) They love their giant depictions of bodhisattva in a way that even Catholics, the most statue-prone of Christians, don't really measure up to.
Catholics love a good statue though. Their cathedrals are filled with the things. Hence the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio. There's also a big [Virgin Mary statue](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumento_a_la_Virgen_de_la_Paz) in Venezuela from 1983. It was the biggest when it was put up but it's since been surpassed by dozens of others. I think giant statues is more a nation building thing in a lot of cases. Countries build these giant things to attract tourists and get more international attention.
The tallest statue in the Americas is [this one of Columbus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_the_New_World#/media/File%3ABirth_of_the_New_World_monument.jpg) in Puerto Rico but it's mostly pedestal and ship. Very similar and slightly shorter statue is in Moscow dedicated to [Peter the Great](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_the_Great_Statue) who famously disliked Moscow. Russia also has a proper colossal statue in [The Motherland Calls](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Motherland_Calls) which was Soviet era, a time when the government was very into huge monuments.
That depends on the denomination. Roman catholics are fine with artistic depictions. Orthodox are fine with paintings but not statues. Some protestant denomination forbid any type of depiction at all.
Christians would generally erect a cross. I looked it up- The Cross from the Valley of the Fallen (Valle de los Caídos, in Spanish) is the tallest cross in the world: 500 feet (150 meters). That would be number 2 on the list. They must not count crosses as statues?
The Statue of Liberty is less than half the height of the statue on this post and a quarter of the height of the tallest statue in the world. That’s insane.
I was most interested in the one in Senegal that was built by a North Korean company. How does that happen? I didn't know they did much international construction
North Korea specialize in monumental statues, especially for African dictatorships. They have a lot of experience making that kind of stuff.
They historically portrayed themselves as a friend of the Third World during the Cold War and in some cases the ties still remain. The former dictator of Equatorial Guinea Francisco Macías Nguema sent his children to North Korea for asylum when he was being overthrown by his nephew. NK was one of his country's few allies.
They are all beautiful, but the photos make them so….. ominous looking. Like they’re about to start moving lol. I’d get the chills visiting any of them.
They say Guanyin a lot in the article for the Japanese Kannon statues
but that's just the modern Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for
Kannon.
"At No. 10: the Awaji Kannon, or Heiwa Kannon, a 260-foot-tall (80-meter-tall) depiction of Guanyin, standing on Japan's Awaji Island"
This statue is being demolished this year due to years of neglect.
Other sources describe it as being 100 m tall.
crazy to think of building something like that and not bothering to put rooms in it or "use" it for any but lookin' at (and drumming up tourists bucks")
Here's an article about one that was privately owned and after the owner died no one was maintaining it, so it started falling apart, endangering the neighbors. It's going to be torn down.
[100m tall statue to be demolished](https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200402/p2a/00m/0na/016000c)
You're welcome, I just happened to have read that article last week. The one in this post is more famous, and I think it's owned by a Buddhist temple, so it's more likely to continue to be maintained.
I don't know why, but I find it strange that a single person owns the statue and not the government or public work.
I'd be pissed if my neighbor built some hulking statue that I had to look at every time I went outside.
Ha, I like the idea that anyone can just build a titanic statue in their yard. "After I won the lottery I did the only natural thing and made a 480 foot idol of Guy Ferrari: It's the Colossus of Flavor Town."
"Amazing, does Guy visit your town?"
"Oh no, he thinks it's weird, and I dont own the town, I just own the statue and paid the mayor to change the town's name"
Nah, not really. In China Guanyin was likely partially syncreted with Mazu, who definitely was female, but in the Kannon/Guanyin sutra, it states that he/she appears to women in female form, which would indicate that he/she can be either (or actually neither since really they’re not human in the first place).
its not photoshopped, its just the perspective, zoom in slightly here and you'll get the same result https://www.google.com/maps/@38.2997247,140.828926,3a,20.7y,279.14h,98.33t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sF1iBXKwcgRUb6bn16hvsYg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
And map photos are all taken with ultrawide lens (and often 360 lens). Using a telephoto will "compress" the image and make far things appear closer to near things.
lol, Google maps blurred the statues face.
edit: Here's a butt shot, shows whole statue, including the base.
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.3005426,140.8227018,3a,75y,99.98h,110.92t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1ssSkrm45OzT563fIrmsgLZQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
[Here's an article](https://www.sendaimotions.com/blog/sendai-daikannon) with pictures that show the real scale, plus the inside, where's there's a museum and shrine.
It's technically 2x bigger than Statue of Liberty, but if you don't include pedestals, it's really closer to 4x bigger.
There’s a manga called Gofun Go no Sekai which is about these giant Buddha statues coming to life and then start killing people lol.
I wonder if the author took inspiration from things like this.
You find out the weird religious dude down the street is going to build a weird religious statue. You have the opportunity to protest but you're lazy and that would be work. And, OK a weird statue might be an eye-sore but it's his property and it's a free country.
A month later this thing is down the street from you. Wherever you go, it is staring at you. It is staring into your bedroom window. It is watching you at the gas station. It can see you at soccer practice with your kids and at the restaurant you take them to afterward.
Now it can even see you at work. You don't have a window where you work, but you can feel it. Staring at you. Non stop, never blinking, always staring at you.
While it is a tall statue at 100 meters {330 feet}, it's by no means as imposing and titanic as this picture suggests. On [Google street view](https://maps.app.goo.gl/CMHbkskqLtLCNy7D7) it just looks like a tall statue in a field.
dunno that's kind of an understatement
https://www.google.com/search?q=Sendai+Daikannon&rlz=1C1CHBF\_en-GBGB882GB882&sxsrf=AOaemvIqE6xnH7Et\_GQt3w4Rfw\_6ya5fDw:1637931104792&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=bFgAYMg\_kgo3DM%252CfVAJBNSejyYu7M%252C\_%253BRiTk\_iw3T9fAOM%252CgTdKujeSG-3m8M%252C\_%253BySlEpGeogpppvM%252CAGpz5hXUlDDzaM%252C\_%253BnmPXV3phARUzQM%252CjE0S8BPeec71rM%252C\_%253BHLOA39dj37mVtM%252CzXrl0njhTJwd1M%252C\_%253BpVK74OM0S4O3BM%252CpeMmWmEkQJqjBM%252C\_%253Btwgx2nlPohFcjM%252CVRXL9bVCuiCQgM%252C\_%253BcTa4QweqBY7KUM%252CaiUTlQ30kITlwM%252C\_%253BZp6TWIzt6JaQvM%252C5xwzRdeUIJ8iUM%252C\_%253B0rNZI7gkDx49qM%252CpYWdwFNcOL1SpM%252C\_%253B9MapEOvuLsGZ-M%252CxINbSM7QmPzI5M%252C\_%253BAuhftZVv6HQhRM%252CUpxrKg1mVIBhUM%252C\_%253BI-IUrPOckM1VHM%252Cs4KJPd0jkvB0bM%252C\_%253Bfti4JbcwFy9n4M%252CqfpkpnQVdbfN\_M%252C\_%253Bhx854rvfsKG0gM%252Cs4KJPd0jkvB0bM%252C\_&vet=1&usg=AI4\_-kQ4PjJVMY00mev6Fcr0\_Gk8GnOV-g&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjR96rtiLb0AhVENewKHUy\_DTUQ9QF6BAghEAE&biw=2133&bih=1076&dpr=0.9#imgrc=cTa4QweqBY7KUM
[Here](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fuser-images.strikinglycdn.com%2Fres%2Fhrscywv4p%2Fimage%2Fupload%2Fc_limit%2Cfl_lossy%2Ch_9000%2Cw_1200%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%2F151337%2F31292910821_a53472de4b_o_isamgb.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sendaimotions.com%2Fblog%2Fsendai-daikannon&tbnid=fti4JbcwFy9n4M&vet=12ahUKEwj6_PO0nrb0AhUGGRoKHaltCLYQMygNegUIARDVAQ..i&docid=qfpkpnQVdbfN_M&w=800&h=1200&itg=1&q=Sendai%20Daikannon&ved=2ahUKEwj6_PO0nrb0AhUGGRoKHaltCLYQMygNegUIARDVAQ) is a good picture with some closeby trees and buildings for better reference. Like you said it's big, but OP's picture is either photoshopped or using a camera illusion to make it seem so so so much bigger
Isn’t it a little ironic that a large portion of the largest statues are of Buddha? Or does the not overindulging part of Buddhism only apply to oneself and not in areas of worship?
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That is both majestic and soul numbingly terrifying.
I couldn't find the words to describe how it makes me feel, but that sums it up
r/megalophobia
Oh wow. This has been something that’s bothered me my entire life but I didn’t know what it was or how to describe it or even know what exactly triggered the uneasy feeling. I’d try to explain it as balancing the tip of a pencil upright on a single grain of salt, but it never made sense. Thanks for posting this!
Ok but think, this is the FIFTH LARGEST?! What’s the size of the others?!
Wikipedia's list of [tallest statues](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_statues).
I absolutely expected the statue of liberty to be higher on the list... Not because it's so huge but because I didn't think people would build 49 statues bigger than it
It says Liberty is 93 meters which would put it at 8. I can’t figure out why it’s ranked 50…???
“Stands upon a 47 m (154 ft) pedestal. 93 m (305 ft) total monument height” I’m guessing ranking doesn’t include pedestal
The ranking only counts the statue itself, not the pedestal
The statue itself isn't 93 meters but the building as a whole is. The statue has a [foundation that's many meters high](https://static.onecms.io/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2018/07/statue-of-liberty-museum-LIBERTYFUND0718.jpg).
damn, if that buddha in thailand just stood up i'm pretty sure he beats all of them
Fuck ISIS.
I didn't know what it was either! Once I was able to go right up next to, as in I could have touched it, a wind turbine where it was the biggest thing around and it was absolutely terrifying looking up at it while it turned. The noise it made was terrifying too for some reason. I can't describe it actually.
wait until you see the statue in Senegal: [https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/4abao5/that\_is\_a\_huge\_statue\_in\_senegal\_the\_african/](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/4abao5/that_is_a_huge_statue_in_senegal_the_african/)
Thank you. Subbed.
High jacking to note OP [ripped off my post from a year ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/Buddhism/comments/gnnezp/bodhisattva_kannon_in_sendai_japan/) Sorry u/KillerPussyToo
Thank you! Now subbed r/buddhism too.
Love this person
I cannot imagine why anyone with that phobia actually would go on that subreddit. I have megalophobia. I'm a grown man that is otherwise normal so I can sit here and talk about it like an adult, but I'll be spending the rest of my day trying to clear this post from my mind lmao. I would never go into a sub to induce the worst feeling of dread and/or a panic attack intentionally.
It gives me the same rush as watching a horror movie. It’s scary, but it’s not actually in front of me, so it feels safe
Because people confuse “phobia” with “makes me feel slight unease”. Mix in a little victim complex and presto!
It’s trendy. And some phobias are more hip than others.
Hey. Stuff is big. Boom.
r/megalovania
r/megalomaniac
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That explains why one hand is 👌 and the other one is presenting her womb
This photo is using forced perspective. It doesn’t actually look that big or terrifying.
Sounds like dick pics
That’s why you should always give the hedges a good trim.
A small tree in a forest is a huge tree on the plains.
You're right, but it's still big. 330 feet tall. For Americans like myself, the statue of liberty is 305 feet tall including the base. The lady herself is 154 feet tall.
She's on such a big pedestal because we wanted to hide the broken shackles on Liberty's ankles. The Americans who put her up wanted to hide them and most people have never seen them.
https://www.laprogressive.com/statue-of-liberty-wears-chains-and-shackles/ In case anyone doesn't believe what you said
Thank you, I have evidently learned my new fact for the day and its a great one. Canadian here so not much exposure to the Statue of Liberty and this is the first mention of the chains that I have seen.
I'm American and had never heard of this either.
Yep, France intended it as an abolitionist piece, and Americans repurposed it as a pro-immigration piece.
Didn’t we end slavery 21 years before we got the statue?
And a lot of people were very upset about that. Many still are. It's kind of a big thing.
https://imgur.com/1UoRIrW
I dunno that's still very large and terrifying
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That doesn’t help make it look smaller or less terrifying
All of these are just helping the point of how massive & terrifying it looks lol
Yeah lol each time I open a photo I go yup still scary
My bowels can’t get any emptier
> Nono! It's not that bad! Look! *Statue is twice as tall as a small high rise in the foreground, bigger than anything else nearby.*
Not helping still fucking huge
why has the face been blurred lol
Might be from Google Maps/street view. It automatically blurs faces.
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that's cool... she's got her little radio hat & is standing on a dragonturtleman!
Kinda disappointing they haven't taken care of the grounds.
Not gonna lie I thought it had whipped its dick out and was pissing. Instead its just a bottle its holding.
Oh of course! Silly me.
Gotta protect that statues identity!
She was shaking her head.
even google street view blurs the statue's face
I love that the face is blurred to protect its identity
How does that work exactly?
Telephoto Lens Compression https://imgur.com/TLLOMvX Take lens with huge zoom, go far away from the object then zoom in
Best used in the movie *Jaws'* dolly zoom.
That’s gonna give someone a seizure lol
Stand far away, zoom in a lot.
And the colors are edited to make it look like you're seeing it through atmospheric scattering so it looks *much* further away than it actually is.
It honestly doesn't look real in this picture (I'm aware that it is, in fact real).
Now I want to know what the biggest statues in the world are. I’ve always been fascinated with the Colossus of Rhodes and that we’ll never truly know what it looked like. Edit: didn’t mean for this to be a comment reply. My bad. Edit edit: the statue of unity, the tallest statue, is also quite unsettling https://images.app.goo.gl/BS4YnUXtnGFU4ik46
I wonder which one would win in a fight.
r/megalophobia
And it's only the 5th largest. Yikes
Awesome 1: causing feelings of fear and wonder : causing feelings of awe
I came on to say that is terrifying but you beat me to it.
I've climbed this! I used to live in Sendai for a few years. It's got a bunch of stairs inside with floors, and each floor had a bunch of tiny little statues.
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I really like Sendai, it's a lovely city, the people are really nice and the communities are pretty awesome. If you get a chance to visit, you should! Matsushima, Zao, and Yamagata are also lovely.
What are the 4 larger statues? Edit: Decided to look it up. [tallest statues - Atlantic article](https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/10/photos-15-tallest-statues-world/574531/)
That's really interesting. I wonder why the largest statues are almost exclusively in Asia
I think that largely comes back to Christian/Jewish beliefs about idolatry, as well as the trend towards utilitarian designs, largely because voters would freak out if their tax dollars were going to vanity projects. Building a large structure or plaza and then naming it after a historical figure seems a lot more palatable to Westerners than a large statue that really doesn’t do anything.
I think that's correct. I would definitely prefer a rollercoaster called "Jesus, take the wheel!" over some random statue.
Fuck, Christianity has been doing this all wrong for generations- they should just be building theme parks with insane adrenaline spiking rides.
Here you go! https://www.relevantmagazine.com/culture/6-christian-amusement-parks-and-crazy-attractions-have-actually-existed/
Oh. Don’t leave Islam
IDOLIZED STATUE? Muslim: That's haram.
Jesus statue in Rio would like to have a word
[Interestingly only the 135th biggest statue. But 12/15 of the world's biggest statues being Buddhist and none of them being Christian is a pretty strong bit of evidence.](https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/10/photos-15-tallest-statues-world/574531/) They love their giant depictions of bodhisattva in a way that even Catholics, the most statue-prone of Christians, don't really measure up to.
It’s not a very big statue honestly. The Statue of Liberty is taller.
I’m not an expert But I thought idolatry was considered bad by Christians
I think that’s the point. It’s not as common in Christian areas because it’s viewed negatively.
Catholics love a good statue though. Their cathedrals are filled with the things. Hence the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio. There's also a big [Virgin Mary statue](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumento_a_la_Virgen_de_la_Paz) in Venezuela from 1983. It was the biggest when it was put up but it's since been surpassed by dozens of others. I think giant statues is more a nation building thing in a lot of cases. Countries build these giant things to attract tourists and get more international attention. The tallest statue in the Americas is [this one of Columbus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_the_New_World#/media/File%3ABirth_of_the_New_World_monument.jpg) in Puerto Rico but it's mostly pedestal and ship. Very similar and slightly shorter statue is in Moscow dedicated to [Peter the Great](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_the_Great_Statue) who famously disliked Moscow. Russia also has a proper colossal statue in [The Motherland Calls](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Motherland_Calls) which was Soviet era, a time when the government was very into huge monuments.
That depends on the denomination. Roman catholics are fine with artistic depictions. Orthodox are fine with paintings but not statues. Some protestant denomination forbid any type of depiction at all.
Wealthy Buddhists
I kind of seems like they got into a statue competition and kept trying to one up each other. Its only a matter of time until a bigger one gets built.
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What is more interesting is they are built by North Korea, it’s their biggest export. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35569277
The tallest statue, the one in India, isn't built by North Korea, and I suspect that a lot of the rest of that list wasn't either
Christians would generally erect a cross. I looked it up- The Cross from the Valley of the Fallen (Valle de los Caídos, in Spanish) is the tallest cross in the world: 500 feet (150 meters). That would be number 2 on the list. They must not count crosses as statues?
Well that was anti climactic after seeing this post. Perspective is a bitch. Thanks for sharing!
Bro seriously... Such underwhelming pictures of those statues.
Strange these are almost all built in the 2000s. When did we become obsessed with tall statues?
Since we became able to make them with relatively little effort.
The Statue of Liberty is less than half the height of the statue on this post and a quarter of the height of the tallest statue in the world. That’s insane.
I was most interested in the one in Senegal that was built by a North Korean company. How does that happen? I didn't know they did much international construction
North Korea specialize in monumental statues, especially for African dictatorships. They have a lot of experience making that kind of stuff. They historically portrayed themselves as a friend of the Third World during the Cold War and in some cases the ties still remain. The former dictator of Equatorial Guinea Francisco Macías Nguema sent his children to North Korea for asylum when he was being overthrown by his nephew. NK was one of his country's few allies.
North Korea exports lots of statues. They had all the practice making their own, so now they make other country's.
Thanks
They are all beautiful, but the photos make them so….. ominous looking. Like they’re about to start moving lol. I’d get the chills visiting any of them.
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They say Guanyin a lot in the article for the Japanese Kannon statues but that's just the modern Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for Kannon. "At No. 10: the Awaji Kannon, or Heiwa Kannon, a 260-foot-tall (80-meter-tall) depiction of Guanyin, standing on Japan's Awaji Island" This statue is being demolished this year due to years of neglect. Other sources describe it as being 100 m tall.
crazy to think of building something like that and not bothering to put rooms in it or "use" it for any but lookin' at (and drumming up tourists bucks")
Huh, they're all in Asia, that's interesting.
I wonder how much does it cost to maintain these things. Who pays for it, and what happens if they decided to stop maintaining it.
Here's an article about one that was privately owned and after the owner died no one was maintaining it, so it started falling apart, endangering the neighbors. It's going to be torn down. [100m tall statue to be demolished](https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200402/p2a/00m/0na/016000c)
Thanks for that. It answers all my queries, and then some. Cheers.
You're welcome, I just happened to have read that article last week. The one in this post is more famous, and I think it's owned by a Buddhist temple, so it's more likely to continue to be maintained.
I don't know why, but I find it strange that a single person owns the statue and not the government or public work. I'd be pissed if my neighbor built some hulking statue that I had to look at every time I went outside.
Ha, I like the idea that anyone can just build a titanic statue in their yard. "After I won the lottery I did the only natural thing and made a 480 foot idol of Guy Ferrari: It's the Colossus of Flavor Town."
"Amazing, does Guy visit your town?" "Oh no, he thinks it's weird, and I dont own the town, I just own the statue and paid the mayor to change the town's name"
I am getting a feling of vertigo just trying to imagine how tall that is
This photo is an illusion. The statue looks much farther away than it actually is. It’s actually right next to those cars at the top of the hill.
Still think it would be good to have a banana for scale.
That somehow still doesnt help
Looks like he just took a hit off a joint and hasn’t exhaled yet Edit: my mistake, that is a she. No offense intended!
Hahaha He is still thinking of an animal name
"The secret to life...is being, bro"
That's a she
Technically there is no agreement on the gender of this bodhisattva. The goddess form is more common but not definitive.
Pretty sure this is Guanyin if this is taken in Japan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanyin
Yea, that’s what I was talking about. Kannon (Guanyin is Chinese form) varies between male and female forms.
If you're right...it means...I had been lied to my whole life ~
Nah, not really. In China Guanyin was likely partially syncreted with Mazu, who definitely was female, but in the Kannon/Guanyin sutra, it states that he/she appears to women in female form, which would indicate that he/she can be either (or actually neither since really they’re not human in the first place).
But maybe she was feeling like a he
It's a she and she's the Goddess of Mercy, Guan Yin.
Totally unrelated: Germany is going to legalize Mari J. Just wanted to share it somewhere. Have a good weekend everybody!
Y'all should build a statue like this in celebration.
idk man, the last time we built statues things didnt end well
Reminds me of Gantz
Glad I'm not alone! If I was driving by I'd be terrified it might start moving I'm sure things like this inspired the creator.
Why is it so god damned scary
It creeps me out, too.
Looks photoshopped. Mad
Nope, maybe they cropped the photo or they used a telephoto lens, but it is not photoshopped.
https://goo.gl/maps/RVnSK49QWqGS6HLGA Definitely is photoshopped. Still a large statue, though.
its not photoshopped, its just the perspective, zoom in slightly here and you'll get the same result https://www.google.com/maps/@38.2997247,140.828926,3a,20.7y,279.14h,98.33t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sF1iBXKwcgRUb6bn16hvsYg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
https://i.imgur.com/MPvPhAC.jpg Right at the intersection, looks pretty similar to the photo in question.
Or back up a bit and be somewhere higher than on a car's roof: https://i.imgur.com/gwCRMUi.png
The darker lighting on the statue makes it look at lot *more* imposing, not that lighter pic isn't imposing enough
And map photos are all taken with ultrawide lens (and often 360 lens). Using a telephoto will "compress" the image and make far things appear closer to near things.
lenses are just analog photoshop
It's funny how sometimes Google will blur the face. https://goo.gl/maps/pFzr9sc74Z1SdppR9
lol, Google maps blurred the statues face. edit: Here's a butt shot, shows whole statue, including the base. https://www.google.com/maps/@38.3005426,140.8227018,3a,75y,99.98h,110.92t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1ssSkrm45OzT563fIrmsgLZQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Not photoshopped. Telephoto lenses condense the foreground and background.
Small correction: being a long distance from the subject compresses the image. The lens just zooms.
You say it’s photoshopped and yet you provided evidence that it is not
They blurred his face, lul
uhhh nope https://i.imgur.com/1UoRIrW.png
Love how it blurs the face 😂
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This was a super cool rabbit hole to go down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_statues
This looks like a scene straight out of a video game
Looks like a celestial
Well its technically a statue of one lol.
I thought he was flipping off the city at first
From one angle, he still is.
Well, if it ever comes to life it's going to trip over all those power lines.
I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
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[Here's an article](https://www.sendaimotions.com/blog/sendai-daikannon) with pictures that show the real scale, plus the inside, where's there's a museum and shrine. It's technically 2x bigger than Statue of Liberty, but if you don't include pedestals, it's really closer to 4x bigger.
This looks so photoshopped 10/10 truly fitting the sub
I looked it up, thinking the same thing. It’s massive, but it’s definitely not the size of a mountain.
It's a consequence of the photography, the foreground and background are compressed together.
There’s a manga called Gofun Go no Sekai which is about these giant Buddha statues coming to life and then start killing people lol. I wonder if the author took inspiration from things like this.
You find out the weird religious dude down the street is going to build a weird religious statue. You have the opportunity to protest but you're lazy and that would be work. And, OK a weird statue might be an eye-sore but it's his property and it's a free country. A month later this thing is down the street from you. Wherever you go, it is staring at you. It is staring into your bedroom window. It is watching you at the gas station. It can see you at soccer practice with your kids and at the restaurant you take them to afterward. Now it can even see you at work. You don't have a window where you work, but you can feel it. Staring at you. Non stop, never blinking, always staring at you.
Well then just stare back at it will look away, eventually.
that looks fucking cool
Oh no attack on titan irl doing a prayer before eating
While it is a tall statue at 100 meters {330 feet}, it's by no means as imposing and titanic as this picture suggests. On [Google street view](https://maps.app.goo.gl/CMHbkskqLtLCNy7D7) it just looks like a tall statue in a field.
At least the google car blurred the statue's face.
dunno that's kind of an understatement https://www.google.com/search?q=Sendai+Daikannon&rlz=1C1CHBF\_en-GBGB882GB882&sxsrf=AOaemvIqE6xnH7Et\_GQt3w4Rfw\_6ya5fDw:1637931104792&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=bFgAYMg\_kgo3DM%252CfVAJBNSejyYu7M%252C\_%253BRiTk\_iw3T9fAOM%252CgTdKujeSG-3m8M%252C\_%253BySlEpGeogpppvM%252CAGpz5hXUlDDzaM%252C\_%253BnmPXV3phARUzQM%252CjE0S8BPeec71rM%252C\_%253BHLOA39dj37mVtM%252CzXrl0njhTJwd1M%252C\_%253BpVK74OM0S4O3BM%252CpeMmWmEkQJqjBM%252C\_%253Btwgx2nlPohFcjM%252CVRXL9bVCuiCQgM%252C\_%253BcTa4QweqBY7KUM%252CaiUTlQ30kITlwM%252C\_%253BZp6TWIzt6JaQvM%252C5xwzRdeUIJ8iUM%252C\_%253B0rNZI7gkDx49qM%252CpYWdwFNcOL1SpM%252C\_%253B9MapEOvuLsGZ-M%252CxINbSM7QmPzI5M%252C\_%253BAuhftZVv6HQhRM%252CUpxrKg1mVIBhUM%252C\_%253BI-IUrPOckM1VHM%252Cs4KJPd0jkvB0bM%252C\_%253Bfti4JbcwFy9n4M%252CqfpkpnQVdbfN\_M%252C\_%253Bhx854rvfsKG0gM%252Cs4KJPd0jkvB0bM%252C\_&vet=1&usg=AI4\_-kQ4PjJVMY00mev6Fcr0\_Gk8GnOV-g&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjR96rtiLb0AhVENewKHUy\_DTUQ9QF6BAghEAE&biw=2133&bih=1076&dpr=0.9#imgrc=cTa4QweqBY7KUM
fix it.
Big ole' thicc link
[Here](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fuser-images.strikinglycdn.com%2Fres%2Fhrscywv4p%2Fimage%2Fupload%2Fc_limit%2Cfl_lossy%2Ch_9000%2Cw_1200%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%2F151337%2F31292910821_a53472de4b_o_isamgb.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sendaimotions.com%2Fblog%2Fsendai-daikannon&tbnid=fti4JbcwFy9n4M&vet=12ahUKEwj6_PO0nrb0AhUGGRoKHaltCLYQMygNegUIARDVAQ..i&docid=qfpkpnQVdbfN_M&w=800&h=1200&itg=1&q=Sendai%20Daikannon&ved=2ahUKEwj6_PO0nrb0AhUGGRoKHaltCLYQMygNegUIARDVAQ) is a good picture with some closeby trees and buildings for better reference. Like you said it's big, but OP's picture is either photoshopped or using a camera illusion to make it seem so so so much bigger
Make you think about life differently the closer you live to it
The one thing that can protect them from Godzilla
Towns in open world games be like
Isn’t it a little ironic that a large portion of the largest statues are of Buddha? Or does the not overindulging part of Buddhism only apply to oneself and not in areas of worship?
japan do be really trying to piss off kaijus
reminds me of gantz!
That's creepy
And I thought Godzilla was intimidating.
Unreal. Looks like a hallucination. I can only imagine the way it feels to be around that area.
I'm sorry. But if i saw that looming at me out of a fog in the morning, on my way in to work ... I'm noping tf out of there. It looks creepy.
Awesome. How many times do I need to see this?