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Sunday, January 14, 2007 Narasimha: Cat God Incarnation  On a trip to Batu Caves outside Kuala Lumpur this week, I saw a statue of Narasimha, a cat headed god. Here he is, complete with claws and fuzzy face. A bit of online reading revealed Narasimha was the fourth incarnation the Hindu god Lord Vishnu. During this lifetime, Vishnu/Narasimha confronted Hiranyakashipu, king of the Asuras, a super-human race of beings who lived in the underworld, emerging every now and again to plague mankind and fight with the gods. Being a sneaky character, Hiranyakashipu acquired magical protection from death. Hiranyakashipu could not die from natural causes and weapons; expire on land, in space, in fire, or in water; pass over during the day or at night; kick the bucket inside or outside his home, and couldn’t be dispatched by humans, gods, or animals. Vishnu/Narasimha got round all of these strictures by turning himself into a half god half animal that was neither one nor the other, catching his enemy on teh threshold of his home at twilight, putting him on his lap, and clawing him with his talons! Scoop loved the story when I told him – or perhaps it was just the petting he was enjoying. Au just yawned. He’s been out supervising our neighbour’s builder’s all morning and is falling asleep on his paws. Check out more about Vishnu/ Narasimha and Hiranyakashipu with the help of these links: Indolink, Wikipedia's Hiranyakashipu, and Encyclopedia Mythica: Hindu mythology Labels: cat god, cats, Hindu myth, weekend cat blogging posted by katztales @ 1:01 PM | 3 comments
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Scoop is a lucky kitty to have such a good story teller! and I did notice Scoop has a room and big bed all for Scoop! Lucky Kitty! Meow!
Hey, an interesting post indeed! Its gud to know that people do worship cats also!!(Cat God)
And hey, thanks soo much for sharing the lovely story of Snowball with us. I am definately going to write on mongrels and my next post will be on that. take care see you soon.
hey, its me justin again!
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I have come to tell you that I have written a post on mongrel as you wanna know about it.. plz check this post as I have tried to give as much information as possible. I will come up with some other posts on it very soon take care God Bless. Links to this post: |
