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A fortune-teller conducting a palm reading, with lines and mounts marked out on the person's left palm Gold stamped front cover of The Psychonomy of the Hand. Palmistry is the pseudoscientific practice of fortune-telling through the study of the palm. [1]
Shani is depicted wearing blue or black robes, having a dark complexion and riding a vulture or on an iron chariot drawn by eight horses. He holds in his hands a bow, an arrow, an axe and a trident. He is canonically represented riding on a large crow or vulture which follows him wherever he goes. [17]
Their use continued until the 19th century when printing presses replaced hand-written manuscripts. [ 2 ] One of the oldest surviving palm leaf manuscripts of a complete treatise is a Sanskrit Shaivism text from the 9th century, discovered in Nepal , and now preserved at the Cambridge University Library . [ 3 ]
The Palm Leaf by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905), portrait of an unidentified woman in ancient dress. The palm branch, or palm frond, is a symbol of victory, triumph, peace, and eternal life originating in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world.
A hanging hamsa in Tunisia. The hamsa (Arabic: خمسة, romanized: khamsa, lit. 'five', referring to images of 'the five fingers of the hand'), [1] [2] [3] also known as the hand of Fatima, [4] is a palm-shaped amulet popular throughout North Africa and in the Middle East and commonly used in jewellery and wall hangings.
The Red Thread of Fate (Chinese: 姻緣紅線; pinyin: Yīnyuán hóngxiàn), also referred to as the Red Thread of Marriage, and other variants, is an East Asian belief originating from Chinese mythology.
Yama is the son of sun god Surya and his wife Sanjna, while Dharmadeva is born from the chest of the god Brahma. [3] Yama is married to Dhumorna. [17] On the other hand, Dharmadeva is married to ten or thirteen daughters of Daksha. [3] Yama has a daughter Sunita. [17] Dharmadeva fathered many sons from his wives.
The god Vishnu and his wife Lakshmi are often pictured as giving away Parvati to Shiva. The god Brahma is shown as the officiating priest. The Kalyanasundara icon is not the object of popular worship and is usually used only in the celebrations of the divine wedding in annual temple festivals.