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Contemplative beauty,close-up
© sahadk
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Uploaded: 07/15/08 1:13 AM GMT
Contemplative beauty,close-up
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This upload is for Cindy,This is the statue of Lord Paramasiva of hindu religion.
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::cynlee
07/15/08 7:10 AM GMT
Thank you for clarifying, Sayed. The statue is really nice in blue and all the colors are really quite fine. This is an excellent image and thank you for posting it.
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"Take it upon yourselves to be more forthright in your comments"*
*Les (&purmusic)
Good close-up of a well made statue - a nice image.
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If practice makes perfect and nobody is perfect, then why practice?
although i know little about religion of any description, i always find i enjoy the art from the hindu religion more than any other, the details are nice here, the jewellery, the snake etc, thanks for showing us.
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nice statue, quick question... what's with the swastika on the palm?
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"One Life One Love Everything Comes From Above"
Nice statue! I would be smiling too if I was sitting looking out over the view that there is in front of the statue.
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That swastika? Uh-oh. I feel a case of Cliff Clavinitis coming on...
Swastikas have been found on relics in northern India dating back to 10,000 B.C.E. and turn up on artifacts from cultures as far flung as Iran, China, Finland, and North America. They've also served as sacred symbols for centuries in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Mithraism.
Heinrich Schliemann's work at Troy generally re-popularized the symbol in the Europe of the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Nazis adopted a swastika as their emblem in the belief that historical Aryans were the ancestors of 20th Century Germans. The Aryans -- that is, Indo-Iranians -- had been among the many cultures that used the symbol.
This was first explained to me by a Danish guide on a brewery tour in Copenhagen. (Yes, beer is educational as well as nutritious. More, please!)
The brewery had massive carved elephants with huge swastikas on their livery and the guide was at pains to show us the elephants' swastikas faced in the opposite direction from the Nazis' swastikas.
Ah, but the Hindus and many others use both forms of the symbol, and while ascribing different meanings to it depending on which way it faces, seem always to attach positive, protective ideals to it.
Wikipedia has quite a well-developed article on the symbol with a number of illustrations if you'd like to check it out.
Swastikas have been found on relics in northern India dating back to 10,000 B.C.E. and turn up on artifacts from cultures as far flung as Iran, China, Finland, and North America. They've also served as sacred symbols for centuries in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Mithraism.
Heinrich Schliemann's work at Troy generally re-popularized the symbol in the Europe of the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Nazis adopted a swastika as their emblem in the belief that historical Aryans were the ancestors of 20th Century Germans. The Aryans -- that is, Indo-Iranians -- had been among the many cultures that used the symbol.
This was first explained to me by a Danish guide on a brewery tour in Copenhagen. (Yes, beer is educational as well as nutritious. More, please!)
The brewery had massive carved elephants with huge swastikas on their livery and the guide was at pains to show us the elephants' swastikas faced in the opposite direction from the Nazis' swastikas.
Ah, but the Hindus and many others use both forms of the symbol, and while ascribing different meanings to it depending on which way it faces, seem always to attach positive, protective ideals to it.
Wikipedia has quite a well-developed article on the symbol with a number of illustrations if you'd like to check it out.
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“A photograph is a secret about a secret.
The more it tells you the less you know.”
Diane Arbus
It looks like it's been poured from concrete - very unusual. I did know about the origin of the swastika, but it's really interesting to get the history above too. You certainly sparked something with this one Sayed.
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"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others merely a green thing which stands in the way." William Blake