The small village covers 3 square km at an elevation of about 2,700 feet. It is also termed as the “Cherrapunji of the South” because of its weather and heavy rainfalls. The village has a population ...

The exhibition traces how religious imagery took hold in South Asia and beyond through serpent spirits and wide-hipped ...

Snake spirits feature heavily, not sinful but protective. The elephant god Ganesha has a cobra wrapped around his dancing ...

Lasting Legacies of Colonialism through the Displacement of Hindu Temples is an exhibition currently on display at Spurlock Museum curated by Registration Assistant Illakkia Ranjani (class of 2025).

Wang adds, “While we already had Kadita, the Ocean Goddess who controls ... tale of Bakunawa (the serpent-like dragon) swallowing the moon or the Indonesian legend of Naga Padoha causing ...

A superstitious Buddhist devotee wears a massive beehive hairstyle to honour a snake god. Samlee Ritthisen ... to the benevolent deity called Phaya Naga - a divine serpent which locals believe ...

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Hindu tradition recognises Naga as a divine serpent that connects earthly existence ... duty to preserve cosmic equilibrium. Hindu mythology honours Nagas because they protect water bodies ...

ESSAY / The once and future bedes & ‘Gypsies? Szilvia Reif, a student of mine from the (indicatively named) Gandhi School in Pècs, Hungary, wrote a poem that tells what it feels like to be a ...

The Snake is the sixth animal in the zodiac cycle and is an important motif in Chinese mythology. It is traditionally associated with traits like intuition, wisdom, slyness and charm, and often ...

In Greek mythology the rod of Asclepius ... Painting of Vishnu on the serpent, Shesha Naga or Ananta floating in the universal oceanImage: picture alliance/Yvan Travert/akg-images One of the ...