Anonymous ID: 371f43 April 22, 2020, 5:43 a.m. No.8883132   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3193 >>3345

CERN Shiva statue was unveiled by the former ambassador of the World Trade Organization (WTO)

 

https://cds.cern.ch/record/768796

https://web.archive.org/web/20041118183932/http://www.cerncourier.com/main/article/44/6/20/3

 

Date: 18 June 2004

 

Indian gift unveiled at CERN: the statue of the Indian deity Shiva was unveiled by His Excellency K M Chandrasekhar, ambassador (WTO Geneva), shown above signing the visitors' book, Anil Kakodkar, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and secretary of the Indian Department of Energy, and CERN's director-general, Robert Aymar.

 

On 18 June CERN unveiled an unusual new landmark - a statue of the Indian deity Shiva. The statue is a gift from CERN's Indian collaborators to celebrate CERN's long association with India, which began in the 1960s. The statue was made in India in the traditional style. The original sculpture was a wax model, around which a soil mould was made. Melting the wax left a hollow into which liquid metal was poured, and once cooled the mould was split and the statue polished and given its antique finish.

 

The quote under the statue:

 

"O Omnipresent, the embodiment of all virtues, the creator of this cosmic universe, the king of dancers, who dances the Ananda Tandava in the twilight, I salute thee."

(Source: Verse No. 56, Sivanandalahari by Sri Adi Sankara)

Presented by: The Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India.

 

Tandava is a dance that represents the cycle of creation, preservation and dissolution:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandava

 

It looks like the UN organizations are fond of Shiva statues.