6/25 Why is it that in many depictions of Hindu deities, they are portrayed
with blue, green, or purple skin? Is it sort of like how Christian
icons have halos?
\_ that is why people think these Hindu and Christian Gods were Aliens
visiting earth back then.
\- deities have canonical representations. this doesnt just
apply to skin color but also clothing details, pose, what they
are holding, what animal they will be pictured with etc.
the "standard blue god" is krishna, which is an avatar of
vishnu [other vishnu forms will not be blue/black]. krishna
actually means dark. however, "neel kantha", meaning "blue
throat" revers to shiva [who will occasionally be shown with
a blue throat, in reference to a story where he was asked to
drink some poison as a favor and stored it in his throat].
neelkantha is also a very attractive mountain in the garwhal
himalaya ... which somewhat confusingly is more tightly bound
to vishnu in non-blue form than shiva, after whom it is named.
better analogy might be to the "hints" in pictures of christian
saints as to who if being depicted. for example if you seen an
saints as to who is being depicted. for example if you seen an
old fellow with a lion and a book, it is probably st. jerome,
the translator of the bible into latin.
\_ I'm now more confused than before. Cool though. |
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