TY  - BOOK
AU  - Handelman,Don
TI  - One god, two goddesses, three studies of South Indian cosmology
T2  - Jerusalem studies in religion and culture,
SN  - 900425739X
AV  - BL1226.2 .H36 2014
U1  - 294.5/211 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - LEIDEN
PB  - Brill
KW  - Murugan
KW  - Hinduism
KW  - India, South
KW  - Rituals
KW  - Hindu goddesses
KW  - Hindu cosmology
KW  - Hindouisme
KW  - Inde (Sud)
KW  - Rituel
KW  - Déesses hindoues
KW  - Cosmologie hindoue
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Cults
KW  - fast
KW  - Hinduismus
KW  - gnd
KW  - Götter
KW  - Kosmogonie
KW  - Ritus
KW  - South India
KW  - Indien
KW  - Süd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-213) and index; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Preface; Chapter One The Cosmic Vortex and Don Handelman's Anthropological Vision: A Personal View; Chapter Two Myths of Murugan: Asymmetry and Hierarchy in a South Indian Puranic Cosmology; From Fragmentation to Encompassment: The Asymmetry of Shiva; The Death of Kama: Asceticism Ascendant and the Nadir of Shakti; The Creation: A Chain Reaction of Fragmentation; The Asura Wars: The Assimilation of Shakti and the Encompassment of the Cosmos; The Asuras: The Asymmetry of Shakti; The Birth of the Asuras: Seduction and Illusion; The Education of the Asuras: The Value of Materialist RealityThe Incorporation of Evil; From Encompassment to Immanence; Shakti and the Devolution of the Divine; Iconography, Reflexivity, and Shakti; Encompassment and Immanence: Acting in the World; Conclusion; Chapter Three The Guises of the Goddess and the Transformation of the Male: Gangamma's Visit to Tirupati, and the Continuum of Gender; Gangamma in Tirupati; Gangamma's Story; Gangamma Comes Home; The Goddess Disguised; Gangamma's Feet; The Goddess Revealed; Multitudes of Gangamma; Gangamma Meets Gangamma and Transcends Herself; Gender, Cosmos, CasteBibliography; Chapter Four Growing a Kingdom: The Goddess of Depth in Vizianagaram; 1. Prologue: Every King Needs a Goddess. On the Curved and the Flat, Wilderness and Civilization; 2. The Birth of Paiditalli; 3. Historical Excursus; 4. Goddesses are Grown (Gods are Not); 5. The (Re)Birth of Paiditalli: The Ritual of Devara Pandaga; 6. The Growing of Rice; 7. Pot-Paiditalli Furrows and Sows; 8. The Tevadam Rite: Bringing the Sprouting Goddess Out of the Earth; 9. Nearing the Sirimanu: Ratham, Swing, and Tolellu-the First Furrow; 10. The Sirimanu Jatra; 11. Uyyala Kambālu-Swinging Away to the Wilderness12. Concluding Thoughts; Index
N2  - One God, Two Goddesses studies through their deities three very different South Indian cosmic worlds whose existence depends on their incessant dynamism, which is deeply and intimately related to ongoing transformation and regeneration
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