Vaikasi Visakam
Vaikasi Visakam is one of the most important festivals amongst the Tamil people all over the world. It is the birth anniversary of Lord Murugan, who took birth only to put an end to adharma and to uphold righteousness and finish off all evil demonic forces. The Vaikasi Visakam is also an important day for the Vaishnavites and the Buddhists too. For the Vaishnavites it celebrates Periyalvar's jayanti and to the Buddhists, it is the birth anniversary, the day of enlightenment and the parinirvana, or final end of Gautama Buddha.
The Vaikasi Visakam falls on the 14th Nakshatra out of the 27 Nakshatras, in the second month of the Tamil calendar, the Visakam on a full moon or a pournami day. Thus the day was in the Tamil month of
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Lord Muruga is believed to be the youngest son born to Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati. Lord Ganesha is his brother. The other names that Lord Muruga is credited with are -Lord Senthil, Lord Kumaran, Lord Subramanyam and Lord Shanmugam. He has six faces with which he can keep a view of all the directions, like - East, West, North, South, Heaven and hell. Thus there is practically nothing that can escape Lord Murugan’s …show more content…
These 3 brothers had amassed great power by praying to the Gods and by intense penance. However, they in order to establish their own rule in the 3 worlds started harassing the Gods. The Gods, helpless finally went to Lord Shiva to appeal for help. Hearing the plea of the Gods, Lord Shiva made 6 sparks emit from his forehead, which filled the entire world with a divine luster. These sparks were carried off by Agni and Vayu to the Ganges, which pushed them inside the lake Lake Saravanai. This lake was filled with lotuses and reeds. The six sparks inside the lake took the form of six celestial children and were nursed and cared for by six kartika maidens. These six children then were embraced and welcomed by the Divine Mother, where after they became One with six faces and twelve hands. This is how Lord shanmugam was born. The six faces of Muruga is said to represent body, breath, senses, mind, intelligence and ego.
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First symbolism is blood, where it presents the human being’s repressed soul and sadness. Second symbolism is “The Hearth and the Salamander” as to represent the fire’s dominance at the beginning of Montag’s life and how it eventually bring sorrow upon him. Third symbolism is phoenix where it’s rebirth refers to the cyclical nature of human history and the collective rebirth of humans and Montag’s spiritual resurrection. Where the city was ruined at the end as the result of human relies technology and not gaining knowledge from books. Throughout the development of the novel, Ray Bradbury uses three symbolisms to represent different ideas of destructions of life without books and if human in the future relies technology to bring them
birthday of the world. according to Jewish tradition, all peoples and nations are judged on Rosh Hashanah, not just Jews.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne also uses different objects in the story as symbols. One of these is the staff of the devil : "But the only thing about him, that could be fixed upon as remarkable, was his staff, which bore the likeness of a great black snake . . ." (185). This symbol shows the reader the evil that is involved with the devil character because the serpent is an archetype of the devil, or some sort of evil, which is prominent in many different cultures. Another object Hawthorne uses as a recurring symbol is the pink ribbon. The pink ribbon symbolizes the purity and innocence involved with Faith. "And Faith . . . thrust her own pretty had into the street, letting the wind play with the pink ribbons in her cap," is a great example of how Hawthorne correlates Faith with the pink ribbons of innocence (184).
Another symbol is the Pallas. . It seemed that the bird had a purpose for
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