Shiva Works

05/04/2025

Cosmology refers to a tradition’s beliefs concerning the origins of the universe. Cosmologies are often religious, but they don’t have to be… for instance, the accepted cosmology …

04/10/2025

Ah Lady luck… when she shines down upon you your life becomes so easy, joyous in fact, but once she takes her gaze away the storm clouds roll in and the pathways before you become treacherous and r…

04/10/2025

The question of the “Ship of Theseus” is one of those pesky paradox questions that predates Star Trek transporter malfunctions by several thousand years. It’s a question that is f…

03/28/2025

Have you ever had the misfortune of being told by a potentially well intentioned, but certainly misguided, individual that: “you need to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps”? Often this sentime…

03/21/2025

Once upon a time, Aphrodite, the Greek Goddess of Love, was bathing in the Sacred River Achelous, the largest river in Greece. Now, Achelous was a Titan, being a son of Oceanus and Tethys (accordin…

03/21/2025

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03/07/2025

From my side project!

A discussion of Snow White and one of the more troubling elements.

03/05/2025

One of Shiva’s characteristic features is His Blue Neck, so much so that a common Shaivite* name is Neelakantha, Sanskrit for Blue (Neela) and Necked (Kantha). According to the Vishnu Purana, it started during the churning of the Cosmic Ocean.

The Story of How Shiva’s Neck Turned Blue; Neelakantha and the Churning of the Cosmic Ocean (Samudra Manthan)

02/28/2025

All things come to pass, and ego, while it can drive big things bigly (to borrow from King Donald), ego has a way of upending itself. No matter what, the wheels keep turning; no Reich lasts forever…