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You are another one of those very few blessed souls! To be gifted with such

wondrous sacraments by a magician......now this is really saying something!!

Very hard to tell from the description but one thing's for sure - it won't be

Cambodian, Laotian, Vietnamese, Burmese..... but maybe..... only maybe Thai.

However I may very well be wrong. Many possibilities, could well be Shiva's

bull, could be Varahavatara (Boar-incarnation), Varahi or one of innumerable

aspects of pantheons of deities. Mean to say there are many incarnations such

as "Fish-face", Tortoise-incarnation, Man-lion (Narasimha), etc., etc. Been 18

years since I last set foot in Asia..... Shall try (can only try) to look up

"bull" for you.

In any case, what is the murthi made of? Silver, bronze, copper? Upon the

murthi, any gold plating or gold gilt, Gold Leaf? You know those very fine

thin slivers of "gold leaf" often adorned by Buddhists on deities in gratitude

for favors bestowed. No gold leaf usually means not originated from Indo-China

or S.E. Asia with the exception of Bali (the only Agama Hindu place in the

entire Indonesian Archipaelago of over 3000 islands). Then again, I can be

wrong. Magicians who are also skilled craftsmen such as in Bali for example

(they are called "Pawang" amongst other honorifics) are very good at making

murthis, masks and related paraphernalia. In the old days, I'd seen the most

fantastically way-out stuff coming out of Bali but these days, most are mass

produced replicas for the tourist trade. Of course, with the recent Bali

bombing (saddened by it), this beautiful island and her South-east Asian

neighbours won't have much tourist traffic for yonks to come.

Your murthi could also be Nepalese or Tibetan, (outta "Bon") perhaps? Just one

or two of many guesses. Wanta scan a pic and post it, and maybe someone here

can tell us what it is?

Ommmm

Sy

Scott Hutton <hmshutton > wrote:

Ho Sy (or anyone else who knows),I have a murthi...a meditating figure...looks

to be Buddhist robed...lotus position, hands in place...but with what seems to

be the head of a bull. It's Thai perhaps...or perhaps Cambodian...actually, I

have two of them, gifts from a very fine magician who left the body several

years ago...Might this be Shiva's bull? I asked a Laotian buddy but she wasn't

sure (she however is a VERY proper Hinayana Buddhist)...sFor Ganesh

Bhaktas:/Do you ?

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Don't think it's Himalayan...simply because it's not sitting atop a

lotus....just a plan base...it's a alloy of some kind, heavy on the

copper but not entirely copper...VERY placid, intelligent

expression...not a wrathful piece at all...I don't think it's Bon (I

have a thing for Bon...very drawn that way...)...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kali_Ma, SY Zenith <syzenith> wrote:

>

> Hi Scottji,

> You are another one of those very few blessed souls! To be gifted

with such wondrous sacraments by a magician......now this is really

saying something!!

> Very hard to tell from the description but one thing's for sure -

it won't be Cambodian, Laotian, Vietnamese, Burmese..... but

maybe..... only maybe Thai. However I may very well be wrong.

> Many possibilities, could well be Shiva's bull, could be

Varahavatara (Boar-incarnation), Varahi or one of innumerable

aspects of pantheons of deities. Mean to say there are many

incarnations such as "Fish-face", Tortoise-incarnation, Man-lion

(Narasimha), etc., etc.

> Been 18 years since I last set foot in Asia..... Shall try (can

only try) to look up "bull" for you.

> In any case, what is the murthi made of? Silver, bronze, copper?

Upon the murthi, any gold plating or gold gilt, Gold Leaf? You know

those very fine thin slivers of "gold leaf" often adorned by

Buddhists on deities in gratitude for favors bestowed.

> No gold leaf usually means not originated from Indo-China or S.E.

Asia with the exception of Bali (the only Agama Hindu place in the

entire Indonesian Archipaelago of over 3000 islands). Then again, I

can be wrong.

> Magicians who are also skilled craftsmen such as in Bali for

example (they are called "Pawang" amongst other honorifics) are very

good at making murthis, masks and related paraphernalia. In the old

days, I'd seen the most fantastically way-out stuff coming out of

Bali but these days, most are mass produced replicas for the tourist

trade. Of course, with the recent Bali bombing (saddened by it),

this beautiful island and her South-east Asian neighbours won't have

much tourist traffic for yonks to come.

> Your murthi could also be Nepalese or Tibetan, (outta "Bon")

perhaps? Just one or two of many guesses. Wanta scan a pic and

post it, and maybe someone here can tell us what it is?

> Ommmm

> Sy

> Scott Hutton <hmshutton> wrote:Ho Sy (or anyone else who

knows),

>

> I have a murthi...a meditating figure...looks to be Buddhist

> robed...lotus position, hands in place...but with what seems to be

> the head of a bull. It's Thai perhaps...or perhaps

> Cambodian...actually, I have two of them, gifts from a very fine

> magician who left the body several years ago...

>

> Might this be Shiva's bull? I asked a Laotian buddy but she

wasn't

> sure (she however is a VERY proper Hinayana Buddhist)...

>

> s

>

> For Ganesh Bhaktas:

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>

>

>

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