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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Are the Indiana Jones films
historically accurate?
by Mark Hughes
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| Fact |
| The Thuggee cult worshipped Kali-ma and ravaged
villagers in India until the 1930s. |
The Thuggee cult did exist in India until 1890. They worshipped
Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction. The English word "thug" comes
from the Thuggee cult for their violent criminal actions. |
| The Thuggee cult ripped the beating hearts out of
their victims. |
Members of the Thuggee cult would strangle their victims with a
scarf called a roomal. By the 19th century, it is estimated that the
Thuggee were killing 40,000 people a year in honor of Kali. |
| Most of the Thuggee cult was hunted down by the
British army in 1854, with a small group of cult members surviving
into the 1930s when they faced Indiana Jones. |
The Thuggee cult was hunted by the British army from the 1830s
until they were completely eliminated in 1890. |
| Uniting the five Sankara stones will give a person
the power to rule the world. |
The Sankara stones do not exist. There was an Indian philosopher
named Sankara (Shakara or Sankaracarya) who lived around the year 700
A.D. Legend does say that Sankara climbed Mount Kalisa where he met
the Hindu god Siva (Shiva), but history does not record a reference to
any stones. |
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