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Title: My name is Legion for we are many View count: 321 Rating: 5.0 (5 ratings) Description: The second avatar of Vishnu assumed the form of an immense tortoise, to support the earth while the gods and genii churned with it the ocean. He is represented as a tortoise, sustaining a circular pillar which is crowned by the lotus throne, on which sits the semblance of Vishnu in all his attributes. A huge serpent encircles the pillar, one end is held by the gods and the other by the daityas or demons. By this churning the sea was converted into milk, and then into butter, from which, among other things, produced the Amrita or water of life drank by the Immortals. An extraordinary belief prevailed among the Iroquois Indians, in which the tortoise is imagined to have acted an equally important part in the formation of the globe. They believed that before the period there were six male beings who existed in the regions of the air, but were nevertheless subjected to mortality. Among them there was no female to perpetuate their race , but they learned that there was one in heaven, and it was agreed that one of them should undertake the dangerous task of endeavoring to bring her away. The difficulty was how he should get there; for although he floated on aether, it appears he could not soar to the celestial realms. A bird therefore (but whether the eagle of Jove, or the Garuda of Vishnu, or what other kind we are not told), became his vehicle, and conveyed him thither on his back. He saw the female and seduced her by (what too many ladies at the present day are led astray by), flattery and presents, but of what kind we are also unfortunately left in ignorance. The Supreme Deity knowing what had taken place immediately turned her, like another Eve, out of Paradise, and she was received by a tortoise on its back, when the otter(a most important party in North American legends), and the fishes disturbed the mud at the bottom of the ocean, and drawing it up around the tortoise, formed a small island, which gradually increasing became the earth. The female had at first, two sons (one of whom slew the other), and afterwords, several children from whom sprung the rest of mankind. http://antinewworldorder.blogspot.com/2009/11/tortoise-turtles-are-linked-to.html Tags: esoteric, never ending story, old ones, dino, turtle, tortoise, glen kealey, Author: gwap360 |
