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mythology of the World-Tortoise discussed by Edward Burnett Tylor (1878:341) includes the counterpart World Elephant. The World Turtle in Hindu mythology is...- refer to the Chukwa language of Tibet an alleged World Turtle in Hindu mythology, see World-Tortoise (Hindu) a Hadoop subproject devoted to large-scale log...
Turtles all the way down (redirect from Tortoise theory)the world stood, replied, "On a tortoise." But on what does the tortoise stand? "On another tortoise." With Mr. Barker, too, there are tortoises all the...
Kurma (category World-bearing animals)Kurma (Sanskrit: कूर्म, lit. 'Turtle' or 'Tortoise'), is the second avatar of the Hindu preserver deity, Vishnu. Originating in Vedic literature such...
refers to the ten major incarnations of Vishnu: Matsya, the fish Kurma, the tortoise Varaha, the boar Narsimha, the man-lion Vamana, the dwarf Parashurama,...- "popular rendition of a Hindu myth in which the tortoise Chukwa supports the elephant Maha-pudma, which in turn supports the world". The spelling Mahapudma...
Dashavatara (category Hindu philosophical concepts)different epochs of the world history. Lo! The Hindu Avatar rises from the lowest scale of life through the fish, the tortoise, and the hog up to the perfection...- Adwaita (redirect from Addwaitya (tortoise))world. He may have been from Aldabra, an atoll in the Seychelles. This anecdotal report has not been confirmed. The animal was one of four tortoises that...
- on the horizon in Hindu legend. In Hinduism, Kurma is the second Avatar of Vishnu, in the form of a turtle. The World Turtle in Hindu belief is known as...
Kurmanathaswamy temple, Srikurmam (category Hindu temples in Srikakulam district)Considered the only Indian temple where the Hindu deity Vishnu is worshipped in the form of a tortoise, Srikurmam is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) away from...
This is a list of fictional turtles, tortoises, and terrapins from literature, movies and other elements of popular culture. Post turtle Ograbme Cultural...
Kashyapa (section Legends in Hindu Epics and Puranas)kaccāp ("brainpan"), Tokarian A kāccap ("turtle", "tortoise"). Frits Staal agrees that Kaśyapa means tortoise but believes that it is a non-Indo-European word...
living and recently extinct species of turtles, including land-dwelling tortoises and freshwater terrapins. They are found on most continents, some islands...
turtle and snake at feet Wooden Red Tortoise Mould used in making Red Tortoise Cake In Hindu mythology the world is thought to rest on the backs of four...- Yuga cycle (category Hindu astronomy)cyclic age (epoch) in Hindu cosmology. Each cycle lasts for 4,320,000 years (12,000 divine years) and repeats four yugas (world ages): Krita (Satya) Yuga...
in India. According to Cynthia Talbot, the meaning of word Kachhwaha is tortoise. There are numerous theories on the origin of the Kachhwahas. Prominent...
Kachabeswarar temple, Thirukachur (category Hindu temples in Kanchipuram district)by the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department of the Government of Tamil Nadu. As per Hindu legend, Vishnu in the form of tortoise (called...
order to rule over their people. The land produces elephants, rhinoceros, tortoise shell, gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin. It communicates to the...
Lakshmi (category Hindu goddesses)asuras on the other. Vishnu incarnated as Kurma, the tortoise, and a mountain was placed on the tortoise as a churning pole. Vasuki, the great venom-spewing...- Kali Yuga (category Hindu eschatology)horse will stamp the earth with its right foot, causing the tortoise that supports the world to drop into the deep. Then Kalki will restore the earth to...
- preposition ava, "down". The word is used, in a technical sense, in the Hindu re!igion to denote the descent upon earth of a portion of the essence of
- idea that the earth rests on the back of a large beast (World Turtle/Tortoise) or beasts (World Elephants). Those beasts, in turn stand on the back of
- last part of the inhabited world towards the east, under the rising sun itself, it is called Chryse; and it has the best tortoise-shell of all the places