Guest guest Posted November 25, 2002 Report Share Posted November 25, 2002 //Hail to the Lord of the Categories// Hello friends, I read an old book on Indian mythology by a British author, who claimed that Lord Ganesha had the qualities of the Greek God Janus and the Goddess Hera. I couldn't get that thing. Then I came upon this site: http://www.plotinus.com/janus.htm Please check that out and let me know if our Lord has his place even on Mt. Olympus. Regards, Vikram Srinivas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 27, 2002 Report Share Posted November 27, 2002 I've seen the Janus/Ganesh connection made a number of places and, for the life of me, never quite saw it. Have you read that wonderful book LOVING GANESH by Swami Icouldneverspellhisname? He equates Ganesh with the Hotai of the Japanese and with ol' St Nick (this connection isn't as off the wall as first might seen if you've read WHEN SANTA WAS A SHAMAN)...two connections which make sense to me. But I never got the Janus one. Common sense tells me that, if Ganesh is a divinity, and surely all here agree on that, then (s)he's apt to turn up anywhere, anytime. More tantrically and more mysteriously, I have read a few references to Ganesh as an expression of the Divine Feminine (I suppose we may disregard the divinity's possession of a penis, an action easier, I'm sure, for some who has never had to deal with a penised body to contemplate). I have a strange statue, whose picture appears somewhere in the photo files here, of Ganesh sitting on his Daddy Shiva's lap. For weeks I saw it as some sort of Parent/Child thing...but the other evening it hit me: Ganesh is sitting precisely where and how a Shiva consort would! Well one thing, these divinities NEVER slow down long enough for us to get an ego handle on them. If the did, I guess they wouldn't be divine. Scott , "wikramsrinivas" <wikramsrinivas> wrote: > //Hail to the Lord of the Categories// > > Hello friends, > I read an old book on Indian mythology by a British > author, who claimed that Lord Ganesha had the qualities of the Greek > God Janus and the Goddess Hera. I couldn't get that thing. Then I > came upon this site: > http://www.plotinus.com/janus.htm > Please check that out and let me know if our Lord has his place > even on Mt. Olympus. > Regards, > Vikram Srinivas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 27, 2002 Report Share Posted November 27, 2002 Sorry...I got so off in my own thoughts...I forgot about visiting the site, where, it transpires, I'd been before. "Time" = "kala". The Janus correlation occurs, at least in my world, far more with Mahakali/Mahakala (=Kali/Shiva). After reading the site's expo, I can "see" the Ganesh connection but it's a stretch...unnecessarily far fetched (in the Wicca sense), I think. Warning: this may be simply my karma. I've wanted for decades to, as it were, get it on with Plotinus...even blew a small wad on THE ENNEADS once...but could never quite tune in... still can't...and the whole neo-Platonic movement just leaves me puzzled...and I sure don't see where Ganesh directly comes into it...s , "Scott Hutton" <hmshutton> wrote: > I've seen the Janus/Ganesh connection made a number of places and, > for the life of me, never quite saw it. > > Have you read that wonderful book LOVING GANESH by Swami > Icouldneverspellhisname? He equates Ganesh with the Hotai of the > Japanese and with ol' St Nick (this connection isn't as off the wall > as first might seen if you've read WHEN SANTA WAS A SHAMAN)...two > connections which make sense to me. > > But I never got the Janus one. > > Common sense tells me that, if Ganesh is a divinity, and surely all > here agree on that, then (s)he's apt to turn up anywhere, anytime. > > More tantrically and more mysteriously, I have read a few references > to Ganesh as an expression of the Divine Feminine (I suppose we may > disregard the divinity's possession of a penis, an action easier, > I'm sure, for some who has never had to deal with a penised body to > contemplate). I have a strange statue, whose picture appears > somewhere in the photo files here, of Ganesh sitting on his Daddy > Shiva's lap. > > For weeks I saw it as some sort of Parent/Child thing...but the > other evening it hit me: Ganesh is sitting precisely where and how > a Shiva consort would! > > Well one thing, these divinities NEVER slow down long enough for us > to get an ego handle on them. If the did, I guess they wouldn't be > divine. > > Scott > > > > > , "wikramsrinivas" <wikramsrinivas> wrote: > > //Hail to the Lord of the Categories// > > > > Hello friends, > > I read an old book on Indian mythology by a > British > > author, who claimed that Lord Ganesha had the qualities of the > Greek > > God Janus and the Goddess Hera. I couldn't get that thing. Then I > > came upon this site: > > http://www.plotinus.com/janus.htm > > Please check that out and let me know if our Lord has his place > > even on Mt. Olympus. > > Regards, > > Vikram Srinivas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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