The Ganges river goddess descending every figure (Gangatarana), para dynasty, the early 7th century AD, granite sculpture.It depicts the blessed one purana described in the sky the holy water of the Ganges.Relief of all kinds of animals, austerities, elves, spirit, etc., are surrounded by a snake god for men and women, the cascade of the game, as the symbol of the Ganges.

shiva

According to archaeological discoveries, India early culture appeared in about three thousand BC, from the Buddha two thousand five hundred years, just as we today as far away from the Buddha.Its center was MoHeng and zhu DE darrow two big cities.In religion, the ancient indians worship seems to be a great god, which is the prototype of the modern day shiva.He symbol creation and reproduction on one hand, on the other hand, characterized by an ascetic role, or the science of uniting the supernatural god kone yogi.Religious worship in ancient India, there is also a worship of the great goddess of evidence, but has been difficult to study worship goddess worship shiva what is the special relationship between the two aspects of the same performance.

In the vedic ode, shiva, did not appear, but many scholars believe that in the vedic ode rudra is the predecessor of shiva.Vedic poem extol the gods are characterized by natural god associated with natural phenomena, and shiva's feature is not nature of god.He is overThe HinduPresence and birth, and along with the development of Hinduism and gradually evolved into a complex contradiction, and occupies more and more important status in the Hindu.

Unlike vedic era nature of god, the Hindu god together with more people.Hinduism has three big god, this is the great brahma, Vishnu and shiva.Great brahma as the creator of the world, its status was very high, in the early Buddhism and epic, brahma is also an important god, but at the end of the gupta dynasty, brahma and gradually became a humble small synonymous with god or abstract, its significance is mainly stay in the theoretical sense of religious philosophy, real life seems to have lost contact with India, therefore is becoming more and more is not important.Vishnu is the patron saint of the world, but the significance of this god was gradually replaced by more than his incarnation as dark and rama, he as the itself meaning less visible instead of god.God Siva is the destroy god in India's religious and always plays an important role in social life.In the before and after the most hindus believe in either Vishnu, or embrace of Lord shiva.But the church do not deny that shiva of Vishnu, shiva sect or deny Vishnu.There is friction between two pie, but it can coexist in peace and happy, this is because they believe that the two sides eventually does not conflict, but all roads lead to Rome.Hindu tolerance is to absorb the other side instead of rejection, they think shiva and Vishnu are different aspects of the same spirit.

The source of the Lin ng worship

Lin, Sanskrit ल ि ङ ् ग ं, English Linga, or Lingam, Hinduism shiva and shakti worship the penis like, symbol of Lord shiva.Siva temples across the country and India messuage main worship shiva shrine, Lin humanoid like little shiva.Shakta chest even wear Lin mark.Lin ng erectile shaped to Johnny for base, Johnny (vagina) is a female genital mutilation, symbol of shiva's wife.It means: Yin and Yang are two never, intercourse of Yin and Yang is the totality of all things.Believers, clear water, green grass with flowers, fruits, leaves, and dry rice to Lin.Indian epic"The ramayana"Account shiva and his wifeTo make loveAlone, a 100 years old, never stopped in the middle, semen spraying into the Ganges, gave birth to the Indian civilization.

A great god shiva although not like great god as there are a lot of avatar of Vishnu, but his image is not a single fixed, but it is a contradiction of the complex.

SHIVA (LORD SHIVA)And Lin ng (near the left elbow position behind the rear position)

As the god of destruction, he is the embodiment of death and time, wore a skeleton made of lei, by demons and evil spirits companions.Beast master (pasupati) is official, said deputy shiva is often referred to as the beast Lord shiva, in a famous sculpture, beside him a group of beast around, hinted that he is the master of beasts.He was king snakes, neck and arm in front to the snake, the snake image together with him, make him become the symbol of male sexual force again, he also to Lin ng (the symbol of the male genitalia) image is widely worship, the worship became popular around the first century AD, up to now.The ogre puranas Lin to god shiva Lin of the description is too hard to believe.In front of the world to create, brahma and Vishnu fighting for the possession of supreme god faith, shiva, massive and magnificent Lin suddenly stands in between them.They don't understand what is going on, so the great brahma embodiment for swan flew upward to the top of the Lin, Vishnu into wild boar down to find the bottom of the Lin, results in the one thousand years but could not find.In the sea of stories, "said a similar story, once upon a time, brahma and the real looking for shiva, came to the foot of snow mountain, they see a huge flame column (i.e., Lin of shiva) now they face, kept falling under the intermittent rain flower around the pillar.Great brahma and the rooyen curious psychology, an up and down another, trying to find it, at the end of looking but they also can not find an end.Death and reproduction on shiva are to its extreme, and shaken together the.

Shiva is a great ascetic, symbolizes the eternal tranquility, high in the Himalayas, sitting on the skin, for over one thousand years, he has been sitting in meditation, therefore, shiva, almost became a synonym for asceticism;His forehead with the symbol of great wisdom and insight of the third eye, the third eye marks austerities he made great achievement.But at the same time, nataraja, shiva he created different kinds of dancing, some extremely gentle shape, some are very terrible, violent, destruction of the world, he would jump crazy dance.On the one hand is the embodiment of "static", on the other hand, is the spirit of "move".

Rama, hanuman god worship of the Lin ng

"The Ganges comes" is related to one of the most famous myths and legends of Siva, 'the story.The god is the devil more and rohgah, predicted that only with the god shiva in combination with the children born to destroy the daughter of the devil.But shiva, absorbed in meditation concentration of asceticism, let him with a goddess and hopes are so slim.However, the gods or request snow mountain fairy woman, Eva to do it.So, shiva, she came to the land of the austerity of shiva, though she tried to attract the attention of a great god shiva, but shiva is always indulge in their own practice.Trying to help the woman's love of Eva, as a result, he himself was Siva open your third eye penetrate the fire burned into ashes.Finally, shiva, Eva's decision to follow shiva to asceticism, she went to the adornment of the sites themselves, as a female practitioners, on the snow-capped mountains another peak of penance, shiva noticed her, and moved by her spirit, and he promised to shiva, Eva's request.Shiva sex with her, once reached more than one hundred years, ongoing or rest, among the gods was very fear, fear that the semen of shiva is the water of the Ganges river will be washed out of the earth.Under the request of the gods, shiva, allow your head to let the water drop from his plate flow became the horns of the hair, then flowing into the earth.From the sky, so the water of the Ganges in the shine of the Ganges is the semen of shiva, ares was born, after he grows up he destroyed more and rohgah devil.Hegel thinks, India this ridiculous myth throw all chastity and shame to the outside of the cloud nine.But Indian artists of "the story of the Ganges comes", they feel very friendly, they also genuinely fear shiva and victor wei, inserted into the story, they are often in a lot of legends and interpolated to it over and over again, making it a layman of fairy tales.Artists also for special imagination, will this story, in the form of a grand, through "the Ganges comes", showing the vitality of all things.【 the 】