9rules and Tarot

5 Comments | January 27, 2009 at 7:16 am by mahud

After a long wait since submitting my blog back in November 2008, a week and a half ago I discovered I made it into 9rules!
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Joining 9rules

When I first submitted to 9rules I […]

Vishnu the Sacrifice and the Yajnavaraha

0 Comments | October 17, 2008 at 10:43 am by mahud

This post contains a couple of extracts from my current book project titled The Cosmic Double-Death (And Cyclic re-creation through the Dying God). The bibliography for this post is too extensive to include here, but may be available on request.
Vishnu the Sacrifice
In the mythology of the Vedas, we encounter the idea of a sacrificial being, […]

Goddesses: Iconography and Mythology

9 Comments | August 23, 2008 at 4:54 am by mahud

A small selection of articles on various goddesses I’ve posted over the past couple of years, including Medusa/Athene from Greek mythology, Chinnamasta from Hindu Mythology, The Egyptian myth of Isis and the hidden name of Ra (which includes parallels to the myth of Lilith and The Golden Ass by Apuleius), The myth of Inanna’s underworld […]

Cosmic cycles in Hinduism

3 Comments | March 7, 2008 at 8:34 pm by mahud

In Hinduism, since the Puranic age, time has been divided up into cosmic cycles, known as yugas, mahayugas and manvantaras. Like this classical world ages of Greece and Rome, time is divided into four consecutive ages: Krita (or satya), Treta, Dvapara, and Kali. Kali is the current yuga, which began on midnight, February 18th, 3102 […]

Is the Spiritual Journey a Never-Ending Circle or a Spiral (or perhaps both)?

3 Comments | June 26, 2007 at 11:19 pm by mahud

…Siddhartha began to speak and said: “Well, Govinda, are we on the right road? Are we gaining knowledge? Are we approaching salvation? Or are we perhaps going in circles—we who thought to escape from the cycle?”
Govinda said: “We have learned much, Siddhartha. There still remains much to learn. We are not going in circles, we […]

Hinduism and the senses

0 Comments | February 7, 2007 at 2:12 pm by mahud

There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond us all, beyond the heavens, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the light that shines in our heart. Chandogya Upanishad 3.13.7 (1)

Monism and Theism (The light of Hinduism)

This ‘light’ has many names and is perceived by different Hindu practitioners in […]

Religious Roles in Hinduism

3 Comments | February 7, 2007 at 1:41 pm by mahud

Since Vedic times, the religious climate of India has undergone many changes, and the living experiences of men and women throughout India’s long religious history have also been conciderably diverse.

Sexual Equality in Vedic times

Dispite being the product of a patriarchal society, the Rig-Veda, the oldest of Hinduism’s religious texts, displays a level of equality […]