Emesene (?; area of: ‘Aqīrbāt). Bilingual (Greek/Aramaic) dedication to ‘Aziz and a unknown local deity, 99 A.D.

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Deity

scholarly journals Veṅkaṭanātha’s Impact on Śrīvaiṣṇavism

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Freschi
Keyword(s):  
Local Deity ◽  
A Minor

This article maintains that the resemantization of Hayagrīva from a minor pan-Indian deity to a major local deity can be traced to Veṅkaṭanātha (traditional dates 1269–1370), who chose Hayagrīva because of his connection with learning and the Vedas. As a consequence of this intentional resemantization, in Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta following Veṅkaṭanātha, Hayagrīva has acquired distinct and standardized traits that are clearly recognizable in all reuses of his image and trope. To conclude, the article shows how Hayagrīva took on a particularly sectarian flavor as an identifying mark of the sub- school of Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta, which considers Veṅkaṭanātha its founder.

Informal Power Structures and Grassroots Politics in Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh

Social Change ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 605-622
Author(s):  
Balbir Singh
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
Himachal Pradesh ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Grassroots Politics ◽  
Local Deity ◽  
Traditional Elite ◽  
Caste Groups ◽  
Formal Power

The study, based on outputs obtained from villages of Shillai block in Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh, looks at the informal power structure found in the state’s rural areas. Both formal and the informal power structures have historically coexisted but we will study various factors that empower informal power structures and critically contrast them to the equality-based, constitutionally legalised formal power structures. This entails an understanding of the basis of mobilisation and relationships among different caste groups, the role and influence of local deity institutions, the traditional elitist strata as well as the nature of institutions like Khumlis and their subsequent relationship with formal political institutions. This purposive, investigative and participatory study was conducted in the villages of Shillai block where the process of modernisation has been very slow. This is probably why the historically privileged, traditional elite and informal institutions continue to dominate the entire social structure. The marginalised stratum of society has consequently received minimum participation and representation in formal institutions or the legislating, executing and adjudicating of policies and decisions.

The Shrinking Third Pole

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Colopy
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Hydropower Plant ◽  
Glacial Lake ◽  
Elderly Men ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Local Deity ◽  
Stray Dog ◽  
The Himalaya

Dig Tsho is another glacial lake high in the Himalaya of Nepal. On a summer afternoon in 1985, the lake’s waters burst from their bowl of ice and rock. An inland tsunami flooded the valleys below, sweeping away potato fields, yaks, and a hydropower plant. It was a Buddhist festival day in the Sherpa village of Thamo. Thamo’s residents are descendants of families that five hundred years ago came over the mountains from nearby Tibet to settle the region known as the Khumbu, below what Westerners call Mt. Everest. People were drinking chang, laughing and having fun. At four o’clock in the afternoon one woman, standing on a ridge above the Bhote Koshi, heard a sound like the roar of an airplane, then felt the ground begin to shake. The woman yelled to the other villagers, who came down to see a wall of water approaching from upriver. Those who lived on the slope closest to the river ran into their houses, grabbed religious items—portraits of monks, statues from family chapels, and Buddhist texts—along with leather trunks holding money and family jewelry. Some ran uphill to neighbors’ houses and waited, while others carried images of Buddhist deities down to the riverbank and pointed them at the advancing flood, pleading for the river to change its course. Elderly men and women in Thamo and nearby villages believe they know what caused the flood. They say a Sherpa man was tending his yaks in the high, sparse pastures near Dig Tsho that August. The morning of the flood, a stray dog ate his bowl of curd. The herder was so angry he grabbed the dog, tied its legs so it couldn’t swim, and threw it into the lake. The act of cruelty angered a local deity, who caused a big chunk of the glacier to break off and fall into the lake. The water surged out. There were no human casualties in the Sherpa villages high in the Khumbu, but lower down the channel, along the Dudh Koshi, people drowned in the churning river.

scholarly journals XIV. Remarks on Belatucader. By the Rev. Mr. Pegge

Archaeologia ◽  
1775 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 101-104
Author(s):  
Pegge
Keyword(s):  
Universal History ◽  
Local Deity ◽  
The Subject

Something was said in the Essay on the Coins of Cunobelin, p. 15, on Belatucadrus, a deity either of the Romanized Britons, or of the Romans resident in Britain; and it was there asserted, he was the same with Mars, being esteemed a local name of this deity. Since then, an inscription, accompanied with a memoir, has been produced by my late most respectable friend Bishop Lyttelton; in which paper his Lordship, concurring with the late Prosessor Ward, reckons him to be a local deity, as do most others, but with a reference to Apollo, who was worshiped, as they observe, by the Druids. And herein they have on their side, Sammes, Selden, Hearne, Montsaucon, and the authors of the Universal History. Notwithstanding the weight of all this authority; I see no reason to depart from my former assertion and hope I may stand acquitted by the candid, if, in justification thereof, I here resume the further consideration of the subject.

scholarly journals Bog Armatus na natpisima s Duvanjskog polja

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Željka Pandža
Keyword(s):  
Local Deity

C. Patsch found two votive monuments dedicated to the deity Armatus during the excavations in Karaula in Duvno in 1896. Most scholars accepted his opinion that Armatus was a local deity although Patsch did not mention function or character of the mentioned deity. In this work we will try to give more complete review of the mentioned deity, theses and arguments regarding his autochonous origin, and offer different opinions about his function and character.

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