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In 2004, a 2 meter statue of the dancing Shiva was unveiled at CERN, the European Center for Research in Particle Physics in Geneva. The statue, symbolizing Shiva's cosmic dance of creation and destruction, was given to CERN by the Indian government to celebrate the research center's long association with India. [61]
The video became popular in August 2016 and shows several people dressed in black cloaks surrounding a statue of the Hindu deity Shiva and apparently performing a human sacrifice, in apparent mockery of existing conspiracy theories which suggest that CERN aims to use the Large Hadron Collider to create a portal to hell, summon the antichrist ...
The Sripuranthan Natarajan Idol, is a 900-year-old statue of Natarajan — the dancing Shiva — that was stolen from the ancient Brihadeeswarar temple of Sripuranthan, smuggled to the United States, and then sold to the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra with a false provenance, for US$5.1 million. The statue was consequently returned by ...
The statue of Shiva engaging in the Nataraja dance (symbolising his cosmic dance of creation and destruction) presented by the Department of Atomic Energy of India Geneva tram 18 at CERN. The band Les Horribles Cernettes was founded by women from CERN. The name was chosen so to have the same initials as the LHC. [195] [196]
Shiva Tandava is described as a vigorous dance that is the source of the cycle of creation, preservation and dissolution. While the Rudra Tandava depicts his violent nature, first as the creator and later as the destroyer of the universe, even of death itself, the Ananda Tandava depicts him as joyful.
Chola dynasty statue depicting Shiva dancing as Nataraja (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) The depiction of Shiva as Nataraja (Sanskrit नटराज; Naṭarāja) is a form (mūrti) of Shiva as "Lord of Dance". [278] [279] The names Nartaka ("dancer") and Nityanarta ("eternal dancer") appear in the Shiva Sahasranama. [280]
The artist was also permitted to put up another statue, called “Tiki Torch,” to be installed at Freedom Plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue between the Capitol and the White House on Oct. 28.
Natarajasana (Sanskrit: नटराजासन, romanized: Naṭarājāsana), Lord of the Dance Pose [1] or Dancer Pose [2] is a standing, balancing, back-bending asana in modern yoga as exercise. [1] It is derived from a pose in the classical Indian dance form Bharatnatyam, which is depicted in temple statues in the Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram.