I had come to the house, in a cave of trees,
Facing a sheer sky.
Everything moved,—a bell hung ready to strike,
Sun and reflection wheeled by.
When the bare eyes were before me
And the hissing hair,
Held up at a window, seen through a door.
The stiff bald eyes, the serpents on the forehead
Formed in the air.
This is a dead scene forever now.
Nothing will ever stir.
The end will never brighten it more than this,
Nor the rain blur.
The water will always fall, and will not fall,
And the tipped bell make no sound.
The grass will always be growing for hay
Deep on the ground.
And I shall stand here like a shadow
Under the great balanced day,
My eyes on the yellow dust, that was lifting in the wind,
And does not drift away.
Escape into the fairy tale of "Hylonome of the High Forest". The mesmerizing, magical work of @anniestegg always amazes me.
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The title of the post sounds little funny but unlike most of the religions of the world (Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and much more ), Hinduism is not monotheistic.If we dive deep into the history of the religion, we will find that Hinduism itself is not a religion, but a nickname for a religion practiced by the people living on the coast of the river Indus.The river Indus was used to be called as the “Hindu” by traders from Afghanistan and Arabia due to phonetics of the word which they can’t pronounce correctly. The religion was originally termed as “Sanatan Dharma”.
Back to the original idea, Hinduism doesn’t have all super powerful god but instead have trinity that decides the fate of the whole universe.The gods of the trinity have their roles clearly deciphered and mentioned so that they don’t intervene in the working of the other in similar to case with our Democracy where we have three separate branches of the government namely Legislative, Executive and Judiciary and which are not supposed to encroach the turf of others.The holy trinity as they are pronounced have their duties in parallel to branches of government;
1. “Brahma”: creator of the world and legislate law to be followed by every body.He is the one who performs functions of the legislative in the trinity.In Indian Democracy Politicians performs legislative functions and as we all know Indian people don’t respect them and in turn doubt their intentions to do any good for general public except some politicians who can be counted on fingers.In the same way, Brahma is also not worshiped at many places neither you will found many temples where the presiding deity is Brahma except few locations around the world.
2. “Vishu“: Maintainer and Executive of the Universe.His duties include to look after the people and maintain law and order situation and ensures that every rule is followed properly as the case with the executive in our democracy which includes highly respected people like PM, IAS, IPS etc.Every people dream to attain this coveted post one day in his life either in democracy or in the trinity.
3. “Shiva”: Judge of the Universe.He is the final decision-making body in the matter of interpretation of the law and holds say over every living/nonliving matter in the universe.He is the one who dictates punishment and executes culprits exactly similar to our judiciary except for the execution part.In our system, as Judiciary is the last resort of every victim or the stressed people so is the case with gods where Shiva is the last resort of every problem and also people have tremendous respect for both judiciary as well as the “Shiva”.
“The dead are all around us…” (Zerachiel) // @wellplighted
“You sound almost frightened of them.”
She knows better than this, knows better than to tease the divine of another realm. Yet she steps daintily away from the Angel, closer to the assembled throng. A friendly smile can turn to cold professionalism in an instant, especially in their line of work, but she treads without fear. They are much alike. Psychopomps, they are called, unless she remembers it wrongly. She stops before the shroud of a young woman and studies her in silence.
When Hel speaks, it is not to the object of her scrutiny. “Your people do not have a wild hunt, do they, Zerachiel?” There’s something so final about this Eastern god, who offers no returns and no communication once in his keeping. “It’s a matter of course for us. They flee, and we chase at the turn of the season, and order is ultimately restored between the living and the dead.”
Her hand rests gently against that marble brow, and the woman fades to nothing. In the distance, she can hear Garmr howling as he pursues his own prey. Turning on her heel, the queen looks to Zerachiel with an earnest grin.
“Would you like to see it? How it’s done? Arawn has ridden ahead of me, and Odin’s company won’t have me.”
