Everyone, name and tell a bit about your favorite little known God. One of my favs is Tjinimin. In one word, he is Horny. To bad loses his nose to the Rainbow Serpant.
your turn!
2007-04-27 06:20:23 · 5 answers · asked by Free A 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Kali
Kali is represented as a Black woman with four arms; in one hand she has a sword, in another the head of the demon she has slain, with the other two she is encouraging her worshippers. For earrings she has two dead bodies and wears a necklace of skulls ; her only clothing is a girdle made of dead men's hands, and her tongue protrudes from her mouth. Her eyes are red, and her face and breasts are besmeared with blood. She stands with one foot on the thigh, and another on the breast of her husband.
Kali's blackness symbolizes her all-embracing, comprehensive nature, because black is the color in which all other colors merge; black absorbs and dissolves them. 'Just as all colors disappear in black, so all names and forms disappear in her' (Mahanirvana Tantra). Or black is said to represent the total absence of color, again signifying the nature of Kali as ultimate reality. This in Sanskrit is named as nirguna (beyond all quality and form). Either way, Kali's black color symbolizes her transcendence of all form.
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2007-04-27 06:35:34 · answer #1 · answered by zurioluchi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually (send me to the nutty house now, yes I know) I've been told that I am the embodyment of the Spring Goddess Cochenne from Irish, Scottish, and Welsh origin. I couldn't tell you any more but that she is beautiful, wise, yet helpless. And I tell you now I have always hated any season but Spring!
However, i can make plants grow tall, the breeze die down, the rain lay quietly and the light glow bright, so perhaps all is not so bad ^_^
2007-04-27 14:33:00 · answer #2 · answered by missytetra 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've always found Lilith to be interesting. First wife of Adam, created from a bone from his head as opposed to his rib, demonized because she demanded equality and refused to be subserviant (sp?).
I have a certain affinity for Ix Chel and Quetzacoatl. Then again, I raise snakes, so I guess thats a given, ya know?
2007-04-29 00:29:53 · answer #3 · answered by Tanith 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marduk
God of Fire, birth, life, and renewal. I don't remember the exact time he came about but it was in Arabia and Sanscrit was still the written word.
2007-04-27 16:11:46 · answer #4 · answered by Lin 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Czernobog. (pronounced cher-no-book)
Slavic god of darkness/death/winter-- NOT not necessarily evil though. He judges with a sledge hammer.
2007-04-27 13:25:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋