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An Introduction to the Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India

1894

shipped the rising sun as identified with Brahma : the second the meridian sun as Siva : the third the setting sun as Vishnu : the fourth the sun in all these places as Trimurti : the fifth class of worshippers of the sun regarded him as a material being in the form of a man with a golden beard and golden hair. [...] In the drama of " The Toy Cart " the thief hesitates whether he shall make the hole in the wall of Chardatta's house in the form of a Swastika or of a waterjar.3 The fate of Chandra or Soma the moon god who has also become a godling is very similar.4 In Vedic Moon-worship. [...] The halo round the moon is the light shed from the council of the gods who sit there and settle the affairs of the world. [...] The sun and the moon detected his fraud and informed Vishnu who severed the head and two of the arms of Mina ham the trunk : the portion of the nectar which he had drunk secured his immortality the head and tail were transferred to the solar sphere the head wreaking his vengeance on the sun and moon by occasionally swallowing them while the tail under the name of Ketu gave birth to a. numer [...] According to the Bhavishya Purina the sanctity of the Ganges will cease on the expiry of 5 000 years of the Kaliyuga or the fourth age of the world which occurs in 1895 and the Narbada will then take its place.
philosophy religion
Pages
425
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.146156
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii W. Crooke view
Preface
i-ii W. Crooke view
Chapter I. The Godlings of Nature
1-48 W. Crooke view
Chapter II. The Heroic and Village Godlings
49-77 W. Crooke view
Chapter III. The Godlings of Disease
78-111 W. Crooke view
Chapter IV. The Worship of the Sainted Dead
112-144 W. Crooke view
Chapter V. The Worship of the Malevolent Dead
145-184 W. Crooke view
Chapter VI. The Evil Eye and the Scaring of Ghosts
185-236 W. Crooke view
Chapter VII. Tree and Serpent Worship
237-277 W. Crooke view
Chapter VIII. Totemism and Fetishism
278-314 W. Crooke view
Chapter IX. Animal Worship
315-346 W. Crooke view
Chapter X. The Black Art
347-368 W. Crooke view
Chapter XI. Some Rural Festivals and Ceremonies
369-396 W. Crooke view
Bibliography
397-402 W. Crooke view
Index
403-420 W. Crooke view

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