Urgh...

[silversolitaire]

I wish people would stop calling Shiva a she. So yes, he undergoes a bunch of sex changes now and then and he does have a female shape, but then it's Kali, and Shiva Nataraj is always male! >_<

/rant

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[silversolitaire.livejournal.com]

Ack! I forgot the ascetic! When I told my friend about him today I had that in too! >_< LOL

I'm so glad you're saying that! So many people don't understand that. I could go crazy when I hear all this crap with Yin and Yang being equated with male and female and they don't understand that it's not about gender and that the binary thinking is such a Western concept. Yin and Yang isn't about black and white at all. People disregard the tiny spot of white and black there that says "There's a bit of everything in everyone."

That's one of the reasons why I like the Greek Gods so much too, especially Apollo. The ambiguity is in there, too, but just like the Hindu Gods the black/white issue is so unimportant. There's no good or bad, there's grey. Apollo does great things, but he's also very cruel and senseless. And there's no straight or gay, there's just love and desire. The latter rather applies for the Greek Gods though. I'm trying to think now... I don't think that concept is part of the Hindu religion... *thinks*