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a young groom because he. makes a passat the Woman and narrators
explain the behavior with a. comicscript. Scholars concluded that the
detdreds of versions. pepperingEurope could be traced to the great
goatgod Dionysus. After all. theDionysian rites gave birth to modern
theater In Britain he becameRobin. Goodfellow or Puck norsk slektpuk
celebrated byShakespeare. Goodfellow's cousin Robin Hood began life
as Wood a namefor the Wild Man. In. the Black Forest the Pied Piper
of Hamelin reenacts poet Robert Browning's. version of the ancient
mystery. Anddon't forget the 'geek' as a freak. act.Shiva is more or less
what you want him to be as in him. allcontradictions casually coexist.
The notion of Shiva as exclusively aWild. Man of the forests and
mountains traveling with a band of ghostsand ghouls as. their leader
Bhoothnath is a recent phase of hisworship. For while he was. always
capable of peculiar behavior Shivaused to live outside of society. not
because he had rejected it butbecause he had transcended it. Shiva is.
repeatedly described as thesupreme master of all the arts and that
indicates. a highly socializedbeing the Nagarika of ancient India not a
rustic.Only. Siva who indulges in both extreme ascetic and extreme
eroticactivity the. creator and the destroyer the quiescent and the
activegod who represents. both the cyclical motion of the universe
andspiritual immortality can offer. devotees both paths of
immortalitythrough rebirth or renunciation and. spiritual immortality.
He is theliving lingam in the yoni and the androgyne.. Both symbols
contain theparadox within themselves and provide a. resolution.Lingam
Sanskrit literary 'mark' or 'sign' ( is there a. connectionbetween 'sign'
and 'seed' (seme and semen) via sema seme. sememesemiological
adj.Gk semeion sign f. sema mark seal symbolicinseal. pregnancy
pregnant expression...)Shiva is worshipped in several apparently.
contradictory aspects whosecombination gives emphasis to his
incomprehensible. transcendence. Heis seen as a giver of blessings and
is also a symbol of. sensualityrepresented by the lingam or phallus. On
the other hand he. issometimes depicted as an ascetic seated in
meditation in. theHimalayas. Shiva is also the god of destruction and
dissolution. Inhis. manifestation as Shiva Nataraja the fourarmed Lord
of the Dancehe tramples. on the forces of ignorance and chaos and
keeps creationin balance.From. Orphee To Punch Worlds ApartThey
should also contain a 'shadow' who causes. disruption. In Punchand
Judy () the shadow is Punch himself in The Mask. or Orpheus()
Aristeus the man who lusts after Euridice and causes. herdeath in Yan
Tan Tethera () the Piper the Bad 'Un.The death of. Euridice occurs five
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