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...year-old Animananda, whose chosen name means "devotee of the small," turned sanyasi in 1947. Now he travels by bullock cart to five small villages talking about religion with clusters of interested listeners in Hindu temples. Because the villagers are monotheists, Lingayat Hindus who worship the God Shiva, Animananda preaches "less about Christ and more about God the Father...
...Paul Klee, among modern artists, have updated the ancient mythological motifs. Campbell and the other mythologists are, in a sense, providing the workbooks for the poets-the modern Daedaluses in turtlenecks. "It doesn't matter to me whether my guiding angel is for a time named Vishnu, Shiva, Jesus, or the Buddha," Campbell says. "If you're not distracted by names or the color of hair, the same message is there, variously turned. In the multitude of myths and legends that have been preserved to us -both in our own Western arts and literatures, synagogues and churches...
There is time for peace and a time for war. There is the day of laughing Krishna and a day of grim Shiva. Brothers and Ssisters, at this time let us have no more talk of peace. The conflict which we have sought to avoid is upon us. A world wide ecological religious warfare. Life vs. death...
...head covered with a cap of pounded gold and his body draped with charms, fetishes, talismans and armor, he looked like an Aztec god or a Shiva as he sat in his sumptuous palanquin at the sports stadium. Later, as 100,000 watched, the King danced, awkwardly, like a jewel-encrusted bear. Three times he fired his flintlock into the air, and was answered by the volleys of 400 muskets. Then he lumbered across the field, his mouth filled with green leaves, symbolizing his identification with the earth, to greet Ghanaian Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and the other official...
What makes Indian folk art engaging, despite its perishable wood and terra cotta, are the extravagant whimsies with which its untutored creators embellish formal Hindu legend and gods. The destroyer Shiva, as portrayed by the aboriginal Maria tribe of Madhya Pradesh in a ritual mask, takes on the unkempt, disheveled appearance of a wandering mendicant...