Week 12 Review

 

The incantation bowl is so cool! 

This video was so interesting, I think Gustav's paintings are so beautiful. I love watching videos like this, I think they're so relaxing and a great way to learn about artists I didn't know about!

Week 12 Extra Credit: Wiki Trail

 

An impression made from the steatite seal. Source

 

 

Shiva

Shiva (/ˈʃiːvə/; Sanskrit: शिव [ɕɪʋɐ], IAST: Śiva, ISO: Śiva, listen (help·info), lit. 'The Auspicious One'), also known as Mahadeva (lit. 'The Great God'),^[9][10][11] is one of the principal deities of Hinduism. He is the Supreme Being in Shaivism, one of the major traditions within Hinduism.^[12][13]

Pashupati seal

The Pashupati Seal is a steatite seal which was uncovered in the 1928–29 Archaeological Survey of India excavations of the Indus Valley Civilisation site of Mohenjo-daro, then in the British Raj, and now in Pakistan. The seal depicts a seated figure that is possibly tricephalic (having three heads). The seated figure was once thought to be ithyphallic (having an erect penis), an interpretation that has been questioned by many critics and even supporters.^[1] The man has a horned headdress and is surrounded by animals. He may represent a horned deity.^[2]

Dravidian peoples

The Dravidian peoples, or Dravidians, are an ethnolinguistic group originating in South Asia who predominantly speak any of the Dravidian languages. There are around 245 million native speakers of Dravidian languages.^[1] Dravidian speakers form the majority of the population of South India and are natively found in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan,^[2] Bangladesh, the Maldives, Nepal,^[3] Bhutan^[4] and Sri Lanka.^[5] Dravidians are also present in Singapore and the United Arab Emirates through recent migration. 

Chola art and architecture

The period of the imperial Cholas (c. 850 CE - 1250 CE) in South India was an age of continuous improvement and refinement of Dravidian art and architecture. They utilised the wealth earned through their extensive conquests in building long-lasting stone temples and exquisite bronze sculptures, in an almost exclusively Hindu cultural setting. 

Week 12 Reading: The Krishna Key Part 2

 

 

 

The plot involves four different pieces of a seal which must be brought together to solve the puzzle. Each part of the seal is in the possession of different people who are the descendants of the ancient Yadava tribe, namely Saini, Bhoja, Vrishni, Kukura and Chhedi. The author narrates a detailed version of the post-Mahabharatha history through the protagonist, a distinguished professor of history, who himself happens to be a lineal descendant of Lord Krishna being from Saini tribe of Punjab. The author also portrays the biography of Lord Krishna in his own words, in parallel to the main story-line.

Week 12 Storylab: Learn About Microfiction

 

Micro Photography. Source.

Tiny-Tales - 100 words or fewer stories based on myth or folklore. Collected into books and published on press books. Neat!

Tiny love stories - 100 words or fewer stories about loooovvveeee 😍😻 New York Times contest. Readers send in their stories to be published.

Hint Fiction - 25 words in length. Rely on readers to fill in the gaps since they're so short. Hence "hint"

Six word stories - Six words or less. Can You Tell Your Life Story In Exactly Six Words? That's very difficult. I'll try

I am tired all the time.

There's my life story ah ha

Two-Sentence Horror - Self explanatory. Two sentences. All the spooks. I'll try.

I crept through the house so as not to wake my hosts. When I opened the front door, I found them expectantly waiting for me.

BIG SPOOKS

I think these have such potential for great material. I would love to explore these more, and I'm disappointed that I didn't spend more time this semester doing so! I have three weeks to catch up on them lol I think I'll write some extra credit microfiction

Week 12 Reading: The Krishna Key

 

Source

 

 Professor Ravi Mohan Saini - Professor. Accused of the murder of his best friend. Ends up trying to solve the murder and traveling around to decipher the code Varshney did

Anil Varshney - a famous archaeologist. Deciphered the code of the Indus Valley Seals

Taarak Vakil - a serial killer who thinks hes Kalki - the final avatar of Lord Vishnu. 

 

 

 

Bibliography: 

Title: The Krishna Key
Year: 2012
Author: Ashwin Sanghi

https://iereadingguides.blogspot.com/2014/06/reading-guide-sanghi-krishna-key.html