Lord Ganesha, Hindu god of knowledge and wisdom. The lord of success and remover of obstacles.
Goddess Lakshmi, goddess of wealth, prosperity and beauty.
Lord Krishna, the blue-skinned deity, considered to be the supreme being, in Hindu tradition considered to be god himself, the eighth incarnation of Lord Vishnu.
Entered in WordPress's weekly photo challenge - the theme this week is Symbol. Click to see more symbols.
Symbolism is uniquely human. We use symbols to represent intangible things like our beliefs and emotions, and to convert the abstract into something understandable. We may also use symbols to simplify and convey information.
Photography is often the same; an image illustrates a single moment in time, or captures an object in perpetuity. Much like symbols, photographs, too, may conjure vivid memories and mean a wide range of things to different people.
This statue of Lord Shiva stands proudly at the entrance to the sacred Hindu site, Grand Bassin, on the beautiful Indian Ocean island of Mauritius.
This statue is the second tallest statue of Lord Shiva in the world.
It stands at 108-feet-tall (33 metres), with his trident at the entrance of Ganga Talao (or Grand Bassin), and is a faithful copy of the Shiva statue of Sursagar lake in Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
The statue of Lord Shiva at Grand Bassin in Mauritius. That is me, in the middle of the photo, where you can see the sheer scale of the statue. It is the second highest statue of Lord Shiva in the world.
Shiva is the god of the yogis and his characteristics are:
the snakes that show he is beyond the power of death and poison and also stand for the Kundalini energy
the sound of Shiva’s two-sided drum maintains the rhythm of the heartbeat and creates the sound of AUM in the overtones
the vehicle of Shiva is the white bull, Nandi (the joyful)
Shiva is often seated on a tiger skin or wears one, representing the mind
Shiva lives on Mount Kailasa in the Himalayas
In response to WordPress’s Weekly Photo Challenge with the theme of Scale. Click here to see other bloggers’ interpretations of this theme.
Mozambican-born Portuguese South African; reflecting on travel, writing, editing, life, family and change that has social impact; chief wide eyed in wanderer, wonderer and bottlewasher
