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Yes, I know what you think. This flag looks awfully familiar. Why someone would use Swiss flag - and got it wrong, by the way?! Truth is much more curious - this simple, yet dashing flag, is a banner of Holy Roman Empire until late middle ages, when famous, double-headed eagle succeded it. Originating in crusades period styling, it was flying high over one of Europe's greatest powers of the age. Wave it proudly.

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Knights Templar motto / The crusader / abstract portrait Non nobis Domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam

The primitive structures present in 2016 were built this century; the hermitage included burials and, likely, wooden structures as rooms

In the mid-17th century, outlawed Christians (mostly in the Nagasaki area) created statues of the Virgin Mary (Mother of Jesus) disguised as the Buddhist deity Kannon (Goddess of Mercy). These images, called Maria Kannon, were made or altered to look like Kannon, but they were not worshipped as Kannon. A Christian cross was sometimes hidden within the image.

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