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CHHEPU Chhepu is one among the three brothers Garuda, Chhepu and Hitimanga. It is told that once the mother of these brothers, requested her husband to give birth of such a son who would be the bravest, most truthful and entitled with all superior marks. Her husband told her to wait for a certain period. She being impatience to wait for the rigth period, looked the nest whether he was born or not. She found Chhepu in a premature condition only with formation of the head. Due to his bravery, truthfulness and all superior marks, he was given the place at the top of the main entrance of the shrines for the protection from all the dangers. Nagas are the food of Chhepu. ************************** Ceramic Necklace of GODDESS COATLIECUEAztec Great Goddess of life, death, and rebirth. Androgynous mother of Quetzalcoatl. She wears a skirt of serpents and a necklace of hands, hearts and a skull; her head is a double serpent. She is the earth and the Pyramid. THE MAYA UNIVERSE The Maya Universe, here centered on a crocodilian in a cosmic sea. Each quarter of the earth was associated with a color; the center was a fifth direction. Four divine beings held up the dome of heaven, shown as a two headed snake whose body is a sky band of celestial symbols. It arches over the Moon Goddess-who holds the rabbit discerned in the moon's face-a skeletal Venus, and the Sun God. The star cluster Pleiades, is a ratlesnake tail. The creation of the Sun and Venus was explained by a tale of Hero twins who vied with the Lords of Death in a series of ball games; the victorious twins became those Celestial bodies. GARUDA (BANTEJ) Garuda is man bird. the mount of Vishnu.He is often found kneeling before Vishnu's Shrines. In the Buddhist Pantheon, he may serve as the vehicles for AMOGHSIDDHI. He is almost always represented as human, except for large wings which fold out from his shoulders. Some times he is represented with the head of a bird. When I was, God was not; now that God is, I am no more; yea, very strait the lane Of Love Divine, it has no room for two ! KABIR In a beginning, Vishnu is lying asleep on an ocean of milk. Vishnu's bed is an enormous cobra called Ananta, whose coils serve as his mattress and whose numerous hoods form a canopy over the slumbering deity. Vishnu's wife, the Goddess, who never sleeps, sits lovingly massaging his feet. In the course of Vishnu's dream, a lotus grows out of his navel, and lying there in the petals is a shiny golden egg. This egg will hatch into our solar system. Guiding the egg's development is Brahma. He is the mastermind behind our local universe. He shapes a Sun and a Moon and several planets from the debris of the last time the solar system formed. Finding people to inhabit this new world won't be hard either. There are plenty of souls left over from the last incarnation of the solar system. They've been sound asleep in their SUBTLE BODIES for eons, just like Vishnu. Once a physical planet is in place, Brahma will toss these souls back into physical bodies, so they can complete their unfinished business from previous lives. There are a number of problems Brahma needs to resolve before he can proceed, but he can't do it all himself. So he tries to wake up Vishnu. But Vishnu is dead asleep. At this point, Brahma turns to Vishnu's wife, the Goddess, and pleads,"YOU ARE THE SUPREME, PRIMEVAL POWER, THE LIMITLESS STORE OF ENERGY THAT CONTINUES TO EXIST EVEN AFTER THE MATERIAL WORLD FADES AWAY. YOU REMAIN ACTIVE EVEN WHEN GOD, THE PRIMORDIAL INTELLIGENCE, PASSES INTO AN UNCONSCIOUS STATE. HE SLEEPS ON THE SNAKE ANANTA, WHOSE NAME MEANS INFINITE TIME, WHO FLOATS IN THE MILKY OCEAN OF PRIMORDIAL MATTER. PLEASE REMOVE THE INERTIA FROM THE LORD'S AWARENESS, SO HE CAN WAKE UP!" Having been asked so nicely, the Goddess lift the veil of unconsciousness from the cosmic intelligence called Vishnu. Vishnu leaps up, refreshed and invigorated. He and Brahma set about cleaning out negative energies obstructing creation. PHAETHON The son of Helios, Phaethon insisted upon driving the SUN chariot for one day. Unable to control the great horses that pulled it, Phaethon plunged the chariot too near the earth, setting mountains on fire and parching the land. He was struck down by a lethal thunderbolt Zeus sent to save the earth. GANESH The "lord of HOSTS" Known throughout India and Nepal, Ganesh sometimes is an "ithyphalic God. In the Negesvara Temple at Kumbhakonam in India, he is depicted and worshipped in this aspect, with lingam erect and his hand touching the yoni of his divine partner, or Shakti. Among his major symbols are the CONCH SHELL and the LILY. HECATE The three-headed, six-armed Goddess of the darkside of the moon. With power to conjure dreams, phantoms and spirits of the dead, she became the symbol of black magic. Her haunting presence at graveyards and crossroads was marked by howling dogs and the incantation of witches. THE ASPARAS The Asparas are the nymphs of Indra's heaven. Though they are later known mostly for their dancing and singing, they began as water nymphs, and many still haunt rivers and holy pools. They are called the daughters of pleasure, for it is said that they were produced incidentally during the churning of the milk ocean and that despite their beauty neither gods nor asuras wanted them as wives; it was therefore decided that they should become the wives of all. EVOCATION A ritual for summoning a spirit--or other entity/being from beyond the world of the human--in order to establish communication. Goddess of grouth polymer and metal-10 x 6 inch. ************************* Coatlicue polymer and metal-7 x 5 inch. ************************ Astarte polymer and metal-10 x 6 inch. VIOLET As a wavelength of light, violet is the color of female sexual energy. QUININE This substance, one of the medicines used to fight Malaria was considered an APHRODISIAC by the Persians. Minute amounts of the alkaloid quinine are included in various sparkling drinks like tonic and ginger ale. OM ! Om, the mystic syllable of A-u-m is venerated by the Brahmans as well as by the Buddhist. The devotees regard it to be too sacred to be uttered aloud only formed by the lips. It is written that when all was void the triliteral syllable Aum became manifest. Adi Buddha at his will proceeded from Om. In that Aum, Adi Buddha who is present in all things formless and passionless, possesses the Tri-Ratna. It is also written that Adi Buddha became manifest in the great Sunyata (void) as the letter A. It is also written that when all was Sunyata, Prajna Devi was revealed out of Akasa with the letter 'U'. The Vija mantra of Sangha is 'M'. Thus the letters A-u-m are the vija mantra of Buddha. Dharma and Sangha V. Tri-Ratna. The mantra generally begins with Om and ends with hum. The most widely known mantra is six syllable one of Avalokiteswara 'Om Mani Padme Hum'. HADES The God of the dead and one of the twelve great Olympians. He rules the underworld which now bears his name. Hades, content in those melancholy surroundings, only left his kingdom twice. When he did, he wore a magic helmet that made him invisible. ************************** ceremonial vase ceramics-9 ich tall ************************* Durga ceramics-16 x 12 inch. ************************* tremoria vase ceramics-18 x 14 inch.