RLG205H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gramadevata, Murti, Indus Valley Civilisation
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Ramayana in bengali literature rama was portrayed as kind of bad. Critique kingship where power is out of balance reflects a number of perspective (the story) Icon and sacred space icon: greek (eikon): a painting on a wood panel (european) used in eastern orthodox. Image: latin (imago): artificial resemblance in either painting or sculpture- its not a one to one representation has a resemblance its is a bit more applicable in context it is more neutral. Confusion that they create is important to think about. Charles saunders peirce, semiotic theory: pioneered nonlinguistic semiotic theory. Icon and aniconic images iconic anthropomorphic pic humanistic form or elements (cid:373)u(cid:396)ti"s use humanistic body shapes and elements : aniconic. Emphasis on the body (vigraha ) of the dirty: source of meditation the body of the diety is the text ( vagraha) you ave to learn how to read multiple form sof diety.
