Cecil, Some good questions. Maybe the text below holds some pointers: (1) Do you ask this question because you are the father of two boys, hoping to be a net recipient of dowry someday? Or because you don't recognise that all religions don't have sufficient space for women? Before Jose Colaco corrects me, neither do the Marxist parties, "democratic" political platforms, and the Republicans.
(2) Why ask? Check Wikipedia (a standard FN reply). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_KRISHNA And would you believe this: "Krishna was canonized by Aleister Crowley and is recognized as a saint in the Gnostic Mass of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica." If we had more Wikipedias around, we might have had less communalism! (3) Why the Freudian interpretation? It's just a double-insurance policy taken by ArkayEn's parents. Like those taxi drivers who carry deities of more than one faith tradition on their carriage. Why take risks, eh? While the Great Tradition looks down on this, it is syncretism par excellence as our anthropologist friends would say. FN On 18/08/06, Cecil Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Why on Krishna's birthday is his paramour also celebrated? > 2) Why in the evening of the Govinda festival do they form human pyramids > to break earthen pots filled with milk? > 3) Radhakrishnan appears to be coined by co-joining names of opposite > genders. Does it signify a bisexuality of sorts? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org 9822122436 +91-832-240-9490 http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
