How the fearsome, fish-eyed Queen M?n?ṭci became a perfectly ordinary goddess
Distinctions between humans and deities tend to be ambiguous in South Asia: Humans regularly achieve promotion to divine status for being gifted gurus, great poets, spiritually adept seekers, martyrs who die for a righteous cause, or able power brokers, such as royalty. People need not necessarily d...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2014
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Nidān
Jahr: 2014, Band: 26, Heft: 2, Seiten: 1-19 |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Festival
B Madurai B Goddess B Marriage B Power |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Distinctions between humans and deities tend to be ambiguous in South Asia: Humans regularly achieve promotion to divine status for being gifted gurus, great poets, spiritually adept seekers, martyrs who die for a righteous cause, or able power brokers, such as royalty. People need not necessarily die to achieve divine status, but it often helps. In some cases, jealous or unkind deities do their best to thwart mortals whose virtue, penance, or sacrifices are about to transform their human status into that of a competing divinity. This paper demonstrates that Hindu tradition tends to devalue historical uniqueness in favor of perceived divine, eternal patterns. |
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| ISSN: | 2414-8636 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Nidān
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.58125/nidan.2014.2 |