Word: parvati
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...their religion, and that the largest of the ice formations is a Shiva Lingam, the symbol of Lord Shiva. Hindu mythology has it that Shiva - the destroyer in the Hindu Trinity that includes Brahma the creator and Vishnu the preserver - imparted the secrets of creation to his consort, Parvati, in Amarnath. Each year, during the months of July and August, hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims from across India and abroad take an arduous five-day, 40-mile trek to worship at this cave...
...India's legendary past. In this case, it's the cosmic myth of Shiva, the Hindu god of annihilation. But the deity's link to Meera (and to India as she self-destructs and regenerates) is labored. If anything, Meera more closely resembles, even fantasizes about being, the goddess Parvati, Shiva's spurned consort and the mother of Ganesh, the elephant...
...does far less well by the decorative arts. The occasional jeweled jade cup or fragment of ancient carpet does little to bespeak the Indian sense of design. Sculpture is scantily represented, although the first object the visitor sees is a ravishingly full-breasted, round-hipped bronze of the goddess Parvati. Thereafter, however, the erotic in Indian art is discreetly underplayed. Of India's greatest glories, its large-scale sculpture and monumental architecture, there is scarcely even a photographic hint. In all the exhibition, the only room that comes close to conveying a sense of the objects in context...
...calls it the finest he has ever seen. The mysterious horsemen of Luristan (mountainous western Iran) flourished a thousand and more years before the time of Christ, left no ruins of cities but only crude tombs crammed with weapons and splendid bronze harness equipage. Brundage's Indian Parvati is one of many he owns representing the Indian mountain goddess. (Some of the others, Brundage recalls, were held up as "pornographic" by U.S. customs.) Despite its elongated ears, topknot and neat mole like a third eye, Brundage's Buddha looks more classical than Oriental, shows that East and West...
...constructed during his absence. This time his new offering most favored was a temple dance called Tandrava Nrittya. Shankar became the God Shiva, whirling and gesturing, creating the universe only to destroy it. When his wife died, Shiva fell into grief and a state of meditation. Reincarnated as Parvati, she tried to wake him. When the Elephant-Demon, Gajasura, menaced her, Shiva, awake at last, came to Parvati's defense. In the great fight that followed, the god and the demon threw winds and lightning at each other, the forces of Earth, Air and Sky. Even Shiva...
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