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Universe, Adorned: Ornament in Culture, Cosmos, and Consciousness

The Emerald

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Wedding Ornaments of Death

In one Puranic tale, Lord Brahma visits Shiva before the wedding and basically says, look, these ashes and bones and snakes simply aren't going to cut it. Yet Shiva politely rejects the festive wedding garments brought to him. And Parvati does love him for who he is. For what inspires more longing than one who has seen into a place where gold and jewels and ash and snakes and life and death and fullness and annihilation are one and the same?

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