Path: shell.portal.com!svc.portal.com!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!sandymac.demon.co.uk From: sandymac@sandymac.demon.co.uk (Alexander Maclennan) Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.religion.wicca,alt.pagan,alt.fan.kali.astarte.inanna,talk.religion.misc,talk.religion.newage,alt.magick.tantra Subject: Re: Devotee of a Wrathful Deity (was Invoking a Nasty Goddess) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 16:41:56 BST Organization: Disorganised Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <4viob4$277@jobe.shell.portal.com> <50pe9q$19q@boris.eden.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sandymac.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: sandymac.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Offlite 0.09 / Termite Internet for Acorn RISC OS Xref: shell.portal.com alt.magick.tyagi:10335 alt.religion.wicca:39584 alt.pagan:173145 alt.fan.kali.astarte.inanna:780 talk.religion.misc:241240 talk.religion.newage:57649 alt.magick.tantra:2676 mandi@eden.com (Queen of Eden In Absentia) wrote: > > Ok, back to the original subject, sort of... > Does anyone know if there exists an image of Kalkin? Kalkin is the > final incarnation of Vishnu, the 10th, if I am not mistaken, who will > follow Krishna, and usher in that which will bring the end of the > world. I spoke to a woman in a shop the other day, and she had never > seen one... has anyone? Kalkin is depicted either as a man with a horse`s head or as a man holding a sword and seated on a white horse. There is a picture of the first version, a photo of a 10th C sculpture in Bihar in New Larousse Encyclopaedia of Mythology 1974 p337 and a drawing of the second version in fact on File Encyclopaedia of World Mythology and Legend 1988 p. 378. This is a drawing suggestive of the Mughul style. Apparently Kalkin will be the last and tenth incarnation at the end of the Kali Yuga and will mop up us sinners so they start off again with the pure bunch. How tedious. Om Namah Shivaya -- Alexander MacLennan sandymac@sandymac.demon.co.uk