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Trishira, his son, is depicted with three heads. Animal races in Hindu mythology like Nāgas (serpents) may have multiple heads. The Naga Shesha is depicted with five or seven hoods, but said to have infinite hoods. Uchchaihshravas is a celestial seven-headed horse. The divine white elephant Airavata is depicted with multiple heads, trunks and ...
The Mexican death goddess or folk saint known as Santa Muerte is portrayed with a skull instead of a normal head. [9] Skull art is found in depictions of some Hindu Gods. Shiva has been depicted as carrying skull. [10] Goddess Chamunda is described as wearing a garland of severed heads or skulls .
Black is the color of mourning in many European cultures. Black clothing is typically worn at funerals to show mourning for the death of the person. In East Asia, white is similarly associated with mourning; it represented the purity and perfection of the deceased person's spirit. [7] Hindus similarly also wear white during mourning and funerals.
Regardless of the figure depicted, the inner meaning remains the same–that the entire process of cyclic existence (samsara) is transient; everything within this wheel is constantly changing. [27] Yama has the following attributes: He wears a crown of five skulls that symbolize the impermanence of the five aggregates. [28] (The skulls are also ...
The seven rays is a concept that has appeared in several religions and esoteric philosophies in both Western culture and in India since at least the sixth century BCE. [1]In occidental culture, it can be seen in early Western mystery traditions, such as Gnosticism and Mithraism, and in texts and iconic art of the Catholic Church as early as the Byzantine Empire.
Color plays an important role in setting expectations for a product and communicating its key characteristics. [26] Color is the second most important element that allows consumers to identify brand packaging. [27] Marketers for products with an international market navigate the color symbolism variances between cultures with targeted advertising.
Different coloured haloes have specific meanings: orange for monks, green for the Buddha and other more elevated beings, [12] and commonly figures have both a halo for the head, and another circular one for the body, the two often intersecting somewhere around the head or neck. Thin lines of gold often radiate outwards or inwards from the rim ...
The Gashadokuro is a spirit that takes the form of a giant skeleton made of the skulls of people who died in the battlefield or of starvation/famine (while the corpse becomes a gashadokuro, the spirit becomes a separate yōkai, known as hidarugami.), and is 10 or more meters tall. Only the eyes protrude, and some sources describe them as ...