Word: vishnu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discussion of black holes and white holes sounds much the same as a passage in the Hindu Matsya Purana, paraphrased by Francis Huxley in The Way of the Sacred, which describes Vishnu, in a cosmic context, as "the lord [of the] whirlpool that sucks back all that it has once produced and is the Death of the Universe...
...with clarified butter, milk, curd and honey by representatives of the four traditional Hindu castes: a Brahman, a warrior, a merchant and an Untouchable. Only then was Birendra-also known as the King of Kings, the Five Times Godly, the Valorous Warrior, the Divine Emperor and the reincarnation of Vishnu, god of preservation-ready to be crowned...
...Symbionese Liberation Army [Feb. 18] did not invent its symbol, the seven-headed cobra. This is an old symbol of Hindu mythology, representing first a Naga, a sacred serpent born of Kadru and the sage Kasyapa. then the serpent-king Sesha, who is usually associated with the god Vishnu in the creation of the world. The picture of this symbol is probably taken from an esoteric book by James Churchward, The Sacred Symbols...
...division of the deck into four suits probably had origins in divination, as a reference to the four quarters of the world. But the four-suit deck is largely a Western convention: there are round Hindu cards with ten suits representing the ten incarnations of Vishnu, and some Persian decks had five-dancer, queen, soldier, king and lion (see opposite page, top left). In the classical fortuneteller's deck, the tarot, the suits were four: cups, swords, coins and batons. Each suit had 14 cards, with four court cards that included a knight. To this pack of 56 were...
...Picasso and 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...