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Who are the Hindu gods depicted in Sita Sings the Blues?
Vishnu, Lakshmi, Brahma, and the Shesh Naga I got, but who are all the others?
(For those who don't know what I'm talking about, go to http://sitasingstheblues.com and click "watch". Download a high-def version, don't watch it in streaming.)
(For those who don't know what I'm talking about, go to http://sitasingstheblues.com and click "watch". Download a high-def version, don't watch it in streaming.)
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| March 09, 2009 03:04 AM |
- Saraswati (goddess of wisdom, art, intelligence)
- Kali (goddess of death, endings)
- Vishvakarma (god of craftsman)
- Vishnu (sitting on Kaliya)
- Surya (god of the sun, and in his chariot)
- Chandra (god of the moon, also in his chariot)
- Devi's Mother Earty (Sita is an incarnation/avatar of Devi... okay, that sort of over-simplifies things)
- Agni (god of fire, sacrifices)
- Ganesha (god of new beginnings, remover of obstacles)
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And the entry on Vishnu identifies the god in the lotus differently: "Visvakarma Sukta of Rig Veda (10.82) describes Vishnu as Padmanabha (lotus-naveled one, from whose navel sprang the lotus which contained Brahma, who created the universe)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu
What's up with that?
Lakshmi, Saraswati, Sita, and other goddesses (even Kali) are all aspects of Devi. In a sense they're interchangeable (some more than others). It makes sense for the film to have conflated Saraswati (who holds the conch shell and other items so depicted) with Lakshmi, who is in turn conflated with Sita (especially since Rama is also just another aspect of Vishnu).
(As I commented above, I was over-simplifying the relationship between the goddesses and Devi, and this is still a bit of a simplification.)
Visvakarma, or Vishvakarma or Visvakarman or similar spellings in English, is indeed the god in the lotus. Padmanabha is a new one on me as a name of Vishnu; but indeed, he's probably Another Avatar of Vishnu that I've forgotten the name of.
What a challenge, these stories. :) )