krishna etc described as blue (or shiva with the blue throat) is poetic
licence in indian literature. to literally depict them graphically as blue,
rather than very dark-skinned, is an instance of latent indian racism - we
don't want to remember that some of our mythical great people were
dark-skinned, just like several people we discriminate against today, so we
pretend they were really BLUE-skinned! luckily, there are no blue-skinned
people around, so we can safely glorify "fair-skinned beauty" in real life.
-rishab
At 18:02 21/02/2006, you wrote:
Extremely dark skin has a blueish tinge; cf. Raj Kapoor about Mithun
Chakravarty
Kiran Jonnalagadda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 21-Feb-06, at 9:41 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Hindu myth = places where most heroes are actually described as fair
> skinned, with exceptions like Arjuna and Krishna carefully noted.
I recall those characters were a mysterious blue, not dark skinned.
What's with that?
