{"id":9499,"date":"2018-11-27T10:47:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T09:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/?p=9499"},"modified":"2020-07-09T12:57:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T10:57:44","slug":"greece-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/greece-india\/","title":{"rendered":"GREECE & INDIA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00ab Greece is the embodiment of beauty and ligth \u00bb
\nPascal Bruckner<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Greece and India have a long common history. For about two centuries, Indo-Greek kingdoms<\/strong> were known, they were essentially territories conquered by Alexander the Great.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ancient Greece and India have many affinities. Indeed, between the Goddess Athena<\/strong> and the Sakti<\/strong>, the great Indian Goddess who represents the feminine creative energy, with many forms (Dev\u012b, Um\u0101, P\u0101rvat\u012b, Durg\u0101, Lak\u1e63m\u012b, K\u0101l\u012b, Sarasvat\u012b …),<\/strong> there are many common characterstics, many related myths, between themselves and in their “indirect” descendants : Erichthonios,<\/strong> for Greece, Ga\u1e47esha<\/strong> or Skanda \/ Murugan \/ K\u0101rttikeya<\/strong> for India.<\/p>\n

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Ath\u00e9na<\/p><\/div>\n

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P\u0101rvat\u012b<\/p><\/div>\n

According to Homer, Erichthonios<\/strong> is the son of Hephaestus<\/strong> and Gaia<\/strong> (the Earth): Hephaestus<\/strong> tries to violate Athena<\/strong>, sperm spreads on the thigh of the Goddess who wipes it off with a woolen cloth that she throws onto the ground. The Earth, thus fertilized, gives birth to Erichthonios, (\u1f14\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd \/ erion, wool, and \u03c7\u03b8\u03ce\u03bd \/ khth\u1ed1n, the earth).<\/p>\n

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\u00c9richthonios<\/p><\/div>\n

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Pata\u00f1jali<\/p><\/div>\n

According to the \u015aivapur\u0101\u1e47a, P\u0101rvat\u012b conceived Ga\u1e47esha, mixing clay (earth) with secretions of her skin.<\/p>\n

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According to the Skandapur\u0101na, \u015aiva<\/strong> would have let out his semen, which was then harvested by Agni,<\/strong> the God of fire. It was so hot that the fire itself could not contain it, so he poured it into the Gang\u0101<\/strong> (the celestial river). As a result, Agni<\/strong> and Gang\u0101<\/strong> are sometimes considered as Skanda \/ K\u0101rttikeya’s<\/strong> parents. Gang\u0101<\/strong> being not very maternal, K\u0101rttikeya<\/strong> is said to have had many nannies, sometimes the seven M\u0101trik\u0101<\/strong> *, sometimes the seven Krittik\u0101<\/strong>, personifications of the constellation of the Pleiade, to which he owes his name K\u0101rttikeya.<\/strong> Because of the large number of his nurses he is sometimes represented with six heads to suckle each of them. In addition, Karttikeya * is systematically born extra-uterine, either on the breast of Gang\u0101 or on the peak of six or seven different mountains (Skanda means “jet of sperm”, Sanskrit, skand, “to transmit”).<\/p>\n

* K\u0101rttikeya<\/strong> : According to Greek mythology, “the Pleiades”<\/strong> “the seven Krittik\u0101”<\/strong> are seven sisters, daughters of the Titan Atlas<\/strong> and Pl\u00e9ion\u00e9<\/strong> (an oceanic nymph aquatic but not marine).<\/p>\n

1. Maia <\/strong><\/p>\n

2. Alcyone <\/strong><\/p>\n

3. Asterope <\/strong><\/p>\n

4. Celaeno (or Selena) <\/strong><\/p>\n

5. Electra, <\/strong><\/p>\n

6. Taygete <\/strong><\/p>\n

7. Merope <\/strong><\/p>\n

* Sapta m\u0101trik\u0101<\/strong> (s), the seven divine mothers, were gradually considered as the paredres (female counterparts) and Sakti (s) (Power of Creation), female personifications of different Dev\u0101 (s) (Gods).<\/p>\n

1. Brahmani<\/strong> is the \u015bakti of Brahm\u0101 <\/strong><\/p>\n

2. Vaishnavi<\/strong> is the \u015bakti of Vi\u1e63\u1e47u <\/strong><\/p>\n

3. Mahesvari<\/strong> is the \u015bakti of \u015aiva <\/strong><\/p>\n

4. Indrani<\/strong> is the \u015bakti of Indra. <\/strong><\/p>\n

5. Kaumari<\/strong> is the \u015bakti Skanda <\/strong><\/p>\n

6. Varahi<\/strong> is the \u015bakti of Varaha <\/strong><\/p>\n

7. Chamunda<\/strong> (or Narasimhi<\/strong>) is the Sakti of \u015aiva<\/strong><\/p>\n

They are also, for some authors, forms derived from the goddess Chand\u012b <\/strong>or Chandik\u0101,<\/strong> kind and protective form of Durg\u0101.<\/strong> They are the personifications of the seven stars constituting the pleiads.<\/p>\n

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