The phenomenon of sacred images in Uzhhorod. Part One.

During several days all believers of Transcarpathia have been flurried. There was a resonant event but in the regional capital of Transcarpathian Region, Uzhhorod, few days ago. A sacred image began to appear on the wall of one of the town "Khruschev" buildings. The story began when a visitor of one of the city nightclubs, located accurate opposite the "Khrushchevka", asked the administrator to open the only window on the floor. A man wanted to breathe, and there was not desire to go down the street. The window was opened, a man leaned out, took a deep breath, gazed around, and ... stopped ... In the dim light of street lamps "the mouth with mustaches" looked at him straight from the wall of the opposite house... The young man coughed, bounced into the depths of the hall, went quickly to the bar, ordered 50 grams of tequila, drained his glass in one gulp, and went back to the window. "The mouth with mustaches" was in the same place. Without hesitation, he quickly phoned on a "dealer" and asked him some questions on the quality of the goods. Somehow the "dealer" hung up. And it began. "The mouth" was shown to the administrator of the club - he confirmed, though he’d not drunk. At least, he claimed so. When even the young girls, dancing in a smoked hall, confirmed that there was The mouth, it was decided to wait until morning and call acquainted scientists and journalists.

I, as usual, learned about the event with a delay. At 9 am I called my friend and said: "There - IS! Jesus, Joseph, Mary! All are there!". I love the mystique! I grabbed my camera and jumped into the car, arrived at the cross of "40 years of October" avenue and Pobeda (Victory) street jumped out and ran to the crowd, shifting from foot to foot at the entrance to the nightclub. All eyes were riveted somewhere up towards the house across the street. I turned around and froze. There were visible contours resembling a human face on the wall of pink color.

I would not hide - a few minutes I stood rooted to the spot. Then I looked around and found "hearths" of the most lively discussion of the question, I came up ... listened to, was looking at the wall, again listened. As a result, in the photo below you can see those "nose and mouth" which a "tired" club visitor saw. it is the nose like "potato", bushy mustaches, slightly open mouth...



When the first journalists arrived at 10 am, the naked eye could see this element; its form was resembling a human ear...



But by 12 o'clock, when the sun was already almost at its zenith, an element appeared which was similar to the contour of the human forehead ...



People began to put all three items to the best of fantasy. Five minutes later, one of the attendants screamed: "O, Goooodddd! But it's Jesus!". The crowd gasped and bustled, shoot by cell cameras. This lasted about five minutes; an old lady at the opposite end of the square broke the numbness of people frozen with the cells on their outstretched hands: "Look! The image is smoldering and streaming myrrh!". And for sure, I saw with my own eyes, slowly glowing grew dark spot on the photo below. Along the contour of "smoldering" 20 centimeter band liquid was oozing, which was similar in color to the dried up ichor mixed with blood. The liquid flowed through the "neck" and "ear" of the image ... And then almost half of the crowd was screaming on the square. "I can smell the chrism", shouted an old lady. "No, this is the smell of myrrh", shouted a woman in a headscarf. "Look, there the words of the Gospel are manifesting", cried the old woman again. "No, these are lines of Apocrypha", the woman in a headscarf replied her boldly. The crowd rumbled loudly, checking facts and figuring out who was right.

I barely lifted the camera to my head and shoot.



For those who want to examine it more closely and in detail, here is enhanced version .Here is a basic element of the image without houses, windows, roofs and so on...



And here is its enhanced version .The enlarged fragment of the place "where it smoldered and erupted from" is in the photo below.



Houses are in photoshop I made several versions of the image proofing. Here's a variant with increased contrast.



And this is a black and white version with the reduced brightness...




The continuation: The phenomenon of sacred images in Uzhhorod. Part Two.

29.11.2011. 16:46

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