Shiva’s first avatar, Piplad, was easy to describe. Lord Shiva incarnated into a human womb and appeared human. Lord Vishnu’s first avatar, in contrast was a TINY talking fish which very quickly grew into a gigantic talking fish which then helped save Manu. I am not sure if the series of “trailers” by U are Beyond are just concepts or if they will ever appear in theaters, but the CGI was quite impressive. The original version of this post had a link, but it appears that U are Beyond has been scrubbed, copyright violation most likely. So I am updating this by linking to Sanatan AI Films.
U and Beyond do not tell us the source of the CGI . All they say is it is a derivative work. Another video that tells the story as a devotional is
Kurma, on the other hand, has been gloriously “brought to virtual life” by the team at Vighnaharta Ganesh. The story of the Churning of the Ocean appears in three different texts. The one depicted in this series is from the Vishnu Purana.
A more famous version is found in Skanda VIII,, Chapters 5-8 of the Bhagavata Purana and Section XVIII in the Mahabharata.
Thanks to CGI and fabulous sets, acting, costumes, and directing, the story of how Lord Vishnu sent his avatar in the form of a gigantic tortoise to lift Mount Mandara (a spur of Mt. Meru also called Mt. Kailash) off the ocean floor saves several paragraphs of verbage.
In the film clip the gods are all wearing pearl necklaces. The one closest to Mt. Mandara is Lord Indra, King of the Gods. His story in Hindu literature is not unlike the Greek tales of gods with questionable characters. Indra will be discussed in a separate post. The actor, Meer Ali, seen here is incredible. His range of emotions portraying Indra in the series is amazing.
Behind him is Surya-dev, the Sun god portrayed by Viren Singh Rathore. You can also see Varuna-dev (WATER) and Vayu-dev (WIND)along with all of the gods in the Hindu pantheon. On the opposing side are the asuras – a race that is often translated as demonic because most, not all, are evil and hold ill intent towards gods and humans alike.This is a famous tug of war for amrita (Sanskrit: अमृत) the elixir of immortality.
Praveen Mohan is my FAVORITE researcher! I think he’s even more incredible than Robert Sepehr because Praveen actually travels to each location and does the in-depth experiments on site.Praveen’s film about Bayon temple is a must watch and is listed below. The entrance way to the temple has the best preserved sculptures of the churning of the ocean I’ve been able to find.This photo is from a site about temple architecture.
Please note that the YouTube algorithm violates Fair Use Copyright Law. This is an instructional blog about many topics. Each clip I use is less than 30 seconds and yet some uploads get flagged and others do not. I chose, therefore, to switch to Rumble until I can reduce clips to less than 15 seconds and see if that satisfies YouTube’s AI.
If you have been following my blog , you’ll see that several posts talk about avatars.My last post introduces you all to the argument I had with the late Notorious Doc about Lord Shiva (Mahadev). Harry had no clue that Shiva has 19 avatars. In a previous post I wrote that Sri Ganesha has many avatars. And in a post about the Naadi leaves, I talk about avatars.I launched this website and blog in March 2021, but I have didnot have a chance to create VLOGs until recently. Below you’ll see a link for the first of Lord Shiva’s avatars. I will be creating VLOGS for Lord Krishna’s (Vishnu), Mata Parvati, Sri Ganesha’s avatars plus VLOGS for each of the deities whose story arcs are illustrated in Vighnaharta Ganesh.
WHY? There are hundreds of devotional videos with images from stylized paintings, etc.They are all well done but they are stylized and static. The TV series Vighnaharta Ganesh requires series dedication to get through if you are not used to stylized acting, if you hate to read subtitles, or if you don’t have the time nor patience for any of it.It aired as IF it were a soap opera.It’s only available outside of India on YouTube and it’s riddled with ads that break the flow of the storyand are inserted so you cannot fast forward without watching them.
HOWEVER, the CGI, acting, costumes, and intense research are worth the effort. IF you really, really, REALLY, want to learn about each deity, I highly recommend investing the time to watch the entire series. For me, this is a form of bhakti yoga. Plus, future posts about the multiverse will build upon the idea of avatars, ages, incarnations, karma, reincarnation, and the xianxia tales of nine tail foxes and plant spirits that are able to “cultivate” enough merit and qi to take human form – cue SUN WUKONG!
And with that introduction, I beginwith Lord Shiva’s first avatar.
In order to curb Shani-dev’s (SATURN) anger over how his father, Surya-dev (THE SUN) rejected him and his mother, Lord Shiva took the form of an infant who would also be left motherless. It’s a very heartbreaking story arc. What is significant is how this story arc includes the following “characters” from Vedic and Western astrology:
Shani-dev – Saturn – the star (pun intended) of this story arc
Surya-dev – The Sun – Shani-dev’s father
Ketu – Southern Node
Rahu – Northern Node
Chandra-dev – The MOON
Budha-dev – Mercury (Sanskrit: बुध)
Shukra-dev – Venus
Mangala-dev – Mars
Bṛhaspati-dev – Jupiter
Each planet/celestial body/deity tries to stop Piplad from reaching Shani-dev but to no avail. After a fierce battle, each finally recognizes (“sees” “realizes”) that Piplad is none other than Lord Shiva, himself, and they bow down and worship him. Shani-dev then returns the weapon made from the sacred fig tree.
What is very significant about this story is the teaching about karma.When Saturn is in your chart, the negative effect will only last seven (7) and a half years. The malefic effect will not last a lifetime.Saturn can only trouble a person once every 30 years. Saturn in a natal chart cannot harm anyone during his or her childhood. The ill effect comes in three phases. Iron – very difficult, Cooper – moderately difficult, and gold which will be a peaceful period. Saturn can only rule over a person’s horoscope for a period of 18 years. During those 18 years, Saturn rewards people based on their deeds. If someone works with dedication and honesty, on a pre-decided solution, to rectify the misdeeds of his or her previous birth, Saturn will reduce the malefic effects on them.
Within the “myth” Saturn GAZES at you during periods of your life based on your natal chart. If you go back and read my post about Naadi leaves, you will see one of remedies given to Craig Hamilton Parker was to “feed the birds” – Shani-Dev’s vimana is a crow.
I, personally, found that honoring Shani-dev improved my life considerably!
Dear friends who are self-employed, run their own business, or want to support small businesses! Here’s an opportunity to see the variety in our extended circles. Post a link to your website or Facebook page below without a description – just the link, it speaks for itself. Anyone who follows me can see it and visit your site.
If you’re of a mind to pay it forward, feel free to copy this text onto your own page and give others the chance to reach more people through your circle. Let’s INSPIRE, MOTIVATE, and SUPPORT one another.
Gratitude is an ESSENTIAL element in manifesting. All the great teachers throughout time and space have taught that we need to be grateful and SAY it out loud for everything. Getting up in the morning. Breathing – that was a BIG deal during the height of the fear that COVID was going to kill all of us. Walking – I couldn’t walk for several months so I practically sing when I find myself walking in the cul de sac. Eating good food – We don’t all have food and some people are lousy cooks. Kisses from a dog or a cat or a horse or a goat or a parrot or ooh la la – someone you love with all your heart.
So, if you know someone who has a website, share it with Susi. Share it with me. Share it with people who will learn something from it. Get a laugh from it. Or someone who will read it and it MIGHT change his or her whole life.
Mildred Muhammad’s Scared Silent details how she was abused. She escaped and went into hiding from her abusive monster only to have the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives knock on her door to let her know her ex-husband was the DC Sniper! Nevertheless, nothing prepared me for Mary’s story. There were elements similar to mine. Mary’s savings accounts, 401K, etc were drained until there was nothing left. William Allen Jordan’s other “wives” – legal and on paper were bled dry until each was facing homelessness.I escaped that fate by an unusual stroke of divine intervention!
So, what makes this book so special? Why should YOU read the book? For one, it’s scary. Parts read like a psychological thriller. Two, Mary lets the reader get inside both her head and the heads of Jordan’s victims. And three, it’s got a lot of great resources and insight into how psychopaths live amongst us. They are beguiling just like Tom Cruise’s portrayal of Lestat!
Mary’s first book about this ruthless predator was published in 2008.I skimmed it when they both arrived because I really wanted to read the Psychopath and couldn’t wait.
I recommend that anyone interested in true crime stories buy both books, watch the documentary, watch interviews with Mary, browse her website, and keep both books and go back and forth. Read one chapter in the Psychopath and then jump to a chapter in the Bigamist. William Allen Jordan was able to pretend to be a husband to two women then three then four etc at the same time, why not read two books simultaneously?
Well, thanks to Express VPN, I just discovered the YouTube will not let you watch this video in the UK but if you switch are in the US, you can!
He FOOLED People Into Thinking He Was a CIA Agent – Evil Up Close (S1, E6) | Full Episode | LMN
Notice the chains on the left rising up to a soaring bird? Brilliant. I hope my readers FEEL what it’s like to be free from an abuser. Mary lived in fear – you can see stories all over the news about how she battled the effects of being gaslighted and treated like a piggy bank.
Mary became famous for losing the weight you see in this photo all because of the stress, humiliation, and constant news and interactions with women who all “married” Will thinking he was THE ONE, and that they were his ONE!
The ONLY criticism I have, and I have not discussed this with Mary before writing it, is the belief in THE ONE. It appears that all of Will’s targets and eventually victims believed in this concept of THE ONE.
When the book arrived, as the Universe would have it, I started seeing articles debunking the myth of “the one” I swear I bookmarked a couple but now I can’t find them. Never fear, Google retrieves older ones. Pun intended.
Mary does an excellent job of detailing how Jordan mirrored everything back to her so that she was totalling snookered into believing that he was THE ONE – the perfect boyfriend, the perfect lover – apparently sex was amazing – a fabulous father, a great cook the few times he ever did cook, a GREAT conversationalist, a romantic, and someone with a super dangerous job with the CIA!
There are no photos in either book. Mary’s wordsmithing, however, paints photos. For example, on page 123 in The Bigamist, Mary writes
“When I arrived at the office, it was very barren and rather shabby. There were plastic chairs and a pile of well-thumbed magazines detailing true-life stories of murder, deception and the inhumanity of the human race. . . . . The social worker was friendly but cautious, and arrived with an enormously thick file that she carried in both arms”.
Just as a woodworker uses many tools and techniques to craft a piece of furniture, a skilled author uses tools and techniques of language and storytelling to craft a piece of writing. We have organized author’s craft into two categories, Narrative Elements and Literary Devices. We use the term Narrative Elements to describe aspects of storytelling. The term Literary Devices refers to specific tools of language that can appear in any genre of writing.
Our Narrative Elements are setting, foreshadowing, and characterization. They apply to most texts that tell a story, fiction or nonfiction, and they tend to be closely linked to an overall narrative arc. Although we have not focused on them here, other elements of narrative include theme, plot, conflict, and point of view.
Our Literary Devices are alliteration, personification, simile, metaphor, allusion, irony, and parallel structure. These are some of the techniques authors use to convey meaning. There are many other literary devices, including understatement, hyperbole, and onomatopoeia.
Mary Turner Thomson is, without a doubt, a skilled and entertaining writer. You definitely feel her fear, self loathing, horror, gut wrenching realizations, sheer desperation, mother instinct to protect her children at ALL COSTS, disbelief, more self-recriminations, compassion for the other “wives”, fear as she went to get tested for STDs, unrelenting drive to research everything ever written about psychopaths, and mental exhaustion!
It’s not funny. There is ONE sentence in the Psychopath that is humorous. It’s on page 88 and it’s a quote from her daughter. You have to buy the book to find it.
What I found infuriating was Mary’s descriptions of all the efforts to get Jordan locked up for good. What was worse were her attempts to get him on the sex offender’s lists in the United States once he got deported. All of her efforts, and the fact that he was still walking around free harming others, pissed me off. As I sat down to write this, I did ONE last search and Found JUSTICE! Note I did not find this on a news site.
And one last creepy glitch in the Matrix since this is a website about the MULTIVERSE.
The Notorious Doc, during an act of desperation, took a job with the Camden Department of Health in New Jersey in 2006. I had prayed for him to somehow get a job so he’d move out of our house in San Benito, Texas. I couldn’t take another beating while working full time. I found him an apartment in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. When he moved to Nevada, I had to fly to Philadelphia and rent a car to clean out the apartment. Read the article. You’ll see why I got goosebumps. I was born in New Jersey and didn’t leave until October 2000. My dad’s father’s parents were both born in Scotland. My mother’s mother’s father was born in Scotland. Mary is Scottish and lives in Edinburg!
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Correction: Mary’s last name is spelled without the “p”. Thomson NOT Thompson.
Surprising in June 2021, I think it was, Harry actually admitted that he lost the argument that the linghm is a phallus. I had to bomb his inbox with articles from Hindu scholars to win that one. Screaming that the British misinterpreted the devotion thinking the lingam was a phallus, because they had dirty minds, finally shut him up.*
Harry also caved when he claimed to KNOW Shiva and be HIS most devoted devotee. OMG what hubris. Asshole (oops, sorry) didn’t even know that Lord Shiva has nineteen (19) avatars. Couldn’t name any of them! When I started to recite:
“Piplaad, Nandi, Veerabhadra, Bhairava!
“You IDIOT! You’d better know who Bhairava is!” He did not.
Harry’s blasphemy in front of the Shiva statue evoke Bhairava? Anything is possible. I sure cried out to Lord Shiva during that fight. One of the only ones I ever won. Harry only lived a few weeks after that. The lingam he fantasized he’d use as a dildo during the conversation may very well have been the last straw. I know the African fetishes were created to kill evil doers. I brought them out of that apartment in my arms apologizing as I walked through the parking lot. I did not care who saw me. You cannot treat primordial spirits and gods with disrespect much less perform sex acts in front of them that they find abhorrent. I you are not a believer, it does not matter. The unseen world still exists whether you believe or not and they do have power. What Harry did to them and said to them was incarnate evil.
I continued to recite:
“Ashwatthama, Sharabha, Grihapati, Durvasa – My GOD Harry, you never heard of Durvasa?” Rishabha, Yatinath”. Okay, a lot of people don’t know that one.
“HARRY! Hanuman-ji! You said you read the Ramayana twice! Krishna Darshan, Bhikshuvarya, Sureshwar, Keerat, Sunatnartak, Brahmachari, Yaksheshwar, and Avadhut”! I am pretty sure he tuned me out early on, but he fussed and looked it up and fell silent.
In my next post, I’ll start the series on the 19 Avatars of Mahadev Lord Shiva. And in another post, I’ll upload photos of all of the African fetishes with their stories.
(*) The history of the lingam is a lot more complicated, but I wasn’t going to try to “educate” him while in one of this MOODS.
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