>>8883174 (lb)

>it just came to my attention that Shiva was disinfo (probs)

>>8883193 (lb)

>Someone really fucked up their interpretations of what god is what….

>Half the world is shaking their heads at present….lol.

Someones' peddling misinfo without using any sauce.

Here's an Indian journalist that traces back the history of the Shiva as Nataraja statue to ancient times.

https://qz.com/india/1759244/a-brief-history-of-nataraja-the-dancing-hindu-god-shiva/

By Harish Pullanoor, Co-editor, Quartz India

Dancing before a corpse wasn’t a new idea to me. Discovering a god in it is what left me stunned.

Yet, here I was one September day in 2018, searching for hints of lord Nataraja, the fountainhead of most Indian dance forms, in this most unruly of performances, Saavukoothu—“death dance.”

I’d been reading up on Nataraja, the dancing version of the feral Hindu god Shiva, for weeks. I hoped to trace his origins and evolution over a period of nearly five millennia, a search sparked after I was smitten by a famed sculpture in a Karnataka town. Tranquil-yet-ferocious according to Hindu mythology, Shiva is said to reside at Mount Kailasa, now in the Tibetan Himalayas.

My search took me to Chennai, capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu and home to perhaps one of the greatest collection of ancient Nataraja statues under one roof at the Government Museum in Egmore. One of the experts I spoke to hinted that apart from mainstream dance forms, even something as raw as Saavukoothu could be linked to Shiva.

The origins of Nataraja, and of the Hindu god Shiva himself, lie thousands of years ago. However, the form we recognise best today may have reached its apex around the 9th or 10th century in southern India: The Ananda Tandava, or blissful dance.

In it, Shiva is in the Bhujangatrasita karana pose—literally “frightened by a snake“—with his left leg held across his body at hip level, and every element contains a deep meaning. Roughly, Shiva is here at once seen creating and destroying existence; offering the escape hatch from this constant chaos; and, finally, revealing the clue to that escape hatch, which is to subdue ignorance.

>>8883638

>My search took me to Chennai, capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu and home to perhaps one of the greatest collection of ancient Nataraja statues under one roof at the Government Museum in Egmore.

>>8883355 (lb)

Guess the 10th oldest museum in the world is living under a veil of delusion as well.

Strange that half the world never called them out on their error before now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Museum,_Chennai

Started in 1851, it is the second oldest museum in India after the Indian Museum in Kolkata and is the tenth oldest Museum in the World.

http://govtmuseumchennai.org/

>>8883650

Learned something new about Shiva being frightened by a snake, so no worries.

>>8884017

The form of Shiva that is in the WHO conference room that Q posted is the Nataraja in the Bhujangatrasita karana pose → avoiding the snake.

>>8883638

>The origins of Nataraja, and of the Hindu god Shiva himself, lie thousands of years ago. However, the form we recognise best today may have reached its apex around the 9th or 10th century in southern India: The Ananda Tandava, or blissful dance.

>In it, Shiva is in the Bhujangatrasita karana pose—literally “frightened by a snake“—with his left leg held across his body at hip level, and every element contains a deep meaning.

https://www.indianpanorama.in/blog/sathir-10000-a-guinness-world-record-attempt-with-10000-bharathanatyam-dancers-in-chennai/

Lord Shiva Carving with 18 Hands in Cave 1 of Badami Caves

While the steps of Lord Shiva in various Indian temples are performed in Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi. Particularly, Bharatanatyam uses his Nataraja Pose to enthral the crowd. So, what is in a Nataraja Pose?

It is the Bhujangatrasita Karana pose where Lord Shiva is avoiding the snake and lifting his left leg toward the right hip.