Word: shiva
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...scientific expedition in North America in years has attracted more attention than that given during the past fortnight to a party, sponsored by Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, which was exploring a lofty plateau called Shiva Temple in Arizona's Grand Canyon. Nevertheless it seemed to some skeptical observers that the expedition which started out with the trappings of a scientific romance, had by last week assumed the cap & bells of a scientific joke...
...Shiva is the Hindu god of destruction. Shiva Temple was so named by Major John Wesley Powell, leader of the first white man's march through the Grand Canyon in 1869. Some 300 acres in extent, the plateau towers 4,000 ft. above the canyon floor, 1,200 above a saddle which runs across to the canyon wall, twelve miles from the Grand Canyon railroad station. The butte is said by geologists to have been carved out by erosion between 12,000 and 35,000 years ago. First reports made it appear that the plateau on top was something...
...soon obvious that a good many animals did not regard Shiva Temple as a "biological island." Naturalists Anthony and Andrews trapped or shot more mice, woodrats, chipmunks, a cottontail rabbit and observed droppings of deer and coyote all over the place. Even humans had ascended Shiva Temple, as primitive tools and ornaments attested. Eight days after the expedition began Mr. Andrews came down to admit that none of the specimens was "spectacular." Leader Anthony, however, thought he detected a "pale characteristic" in the animals-for example, a grey stripe in the chipmunks-and unusually "xerophytic" plants.* The mosquitoes, he said...
...always when Dancer Uday Shankar of India returns to New York, a capacity house turned out last week to watch and hear the dances he has 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...
...audience, impressed with Shankar's sinuous Shiva, and with the elaborate suppleness of Shankar's French girl, Simkie (only Occidental in the cast), marveled also at the Elephant-Demon as danced by a 21-year-old stripling named Madhavan. Young Madhavan has studied dancing in India since he was 12. This is his first trip to the U. S., his first season with Shankar who considers him a better dancer than himself. Critics, mindful of the subtlety of the older dancer, his hands which can all but hiss like snakes, disagree. But they praise Madhavan for his energy...