Can we get a general deities thread going?
I only got but 4 hindu gods, that definitely needs to change
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>>2527917
Found this geezer as well.
Happily taking paintings, sculptures, woodcuts, etchings and whatever.
Gnostic and not often cited images are very welcome too
bummmp
>>2527917
But lemme ask, what's so special with Hindu Gods?
>>2528939
Nothing really, that's why I wanted to get this thread up in the first place.
I like the imagery and fantasy that is included in hinduism or in hare krishna but that's then about it
>>2529355
Buddha became a hindu god, when they made him one of Vishnu's avatars. (Hinduism absorbs everything)
>>2529360
Now that you mention it, I recall something along those lines. Should have written "not a hindu god 'per se'", it's just too early still for me it seems
what's next.... even more adulation on /hr/
Sumerian Goddess Inanna also known as “Queen of Heaven and Earth,”
Coatlicue, also known as Teteoinan, "The Mother of Gods", is the Aztec goddess who gave birth to the moon, stars, and Huitzilopochtli, the god of the sun and war. She is also known as Toci (Tocî, "our grandmother") and Cihuacoatl (Cihuācōhuātl, "the lady of the serpent"), the patron of women who die in childbirth.
The word "Coatlicue" is Nahuatl for "the one with the skirt of serpents". She is referred to variously by the epithets "Mother Goddess of the Earth who gives birth to all celestial things", "Goddess of Fire and Fertility", "Goddess of Life, Death and Rebirth", and "Mother of the Southern Stars".
She is represented as a woman wearing a skirt of writhing snakes and a necklace made of human hearts, hands and skulls. Her feet and hands are adorned with claws (for digging graves) and her breasts are depicted as hanging flaccid from nursing. Coatlicue keeps on her chest the hands, hearts and skulls of her children so they can be purified in their mother's chest. Her face is formed by two facing serpents, referring to the duality of her nature.
>>2529166
>ON THIS EPISODE OF ANCIENT ALIENS
>>2529360
Technically they said that Vishnu emanated as the Buddha to teach a false religion to the asuras so that the asuras would lose in their constant battle against the devas. Buddha supposedly being an emanation of Vishnu is actually an act of religious conflict, and not a syncretist tactic.
>>2535551
This rather contemporary looking drawing is actually 12th century.
It depicts the 'easy path' where it is said that just reciting Buddha Amitabha's name ten times, guarantees rebirth in his pure land where progress in the liberation from suffering is more easily attained.
< Taima mandala, circa 763, depicting Buddha Amitabha's pure land, Sukhavati.
Explanation of the details: https://web.archive.org/web/20131215142654/http://www12.canvas.ne.jp/horai/con-ex.htm
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, Amitabha's first attendant. Mural from the Dunhuang caves.
Bodhisattva Mahasthamaprapta, Buddha Amitabha's second attendant.
Tibetan painting of Amitabha, 15th century.
>>2535568
Padmasambhava, emanation of Amitabha who established Buddhism in Tibet.
Sobek, an ancient Egyptian deity with a complex and fluid nature. This statue of Sobek was found at Amenemhat III's mortuary temple (which was connected to his pyramid at Hawara in the Faiyum), serving as a testament to this king's devotion to Sobek. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
dude ..and I am serious
>>2527927
Only true God
>>2539683
looking dismissal bro , as these days everybody's promised 14 vestal virgins rivers of milky substance and forty minutes on CNN
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Thor
>>2535562
Pure land Buddhism is buddhism though, I got that shit in mah Buddhism 101 classes
>>2535551
But that's the beauty of it. It's religious conflict THROUGH syncretism. It's the same with buddhism saying: well, you're not wrong, gods exist, but they are lower than humans (sort of) and they fucking love buddha's.
tl;dr eastern religions have subtle tactics to discredit one another
all of this originated from hallucinogenics
and that's really fucking cool
