Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/17/89)
Really-From: munnari!ditmela.oz.au!Brian.May@uunet.UU.NET (Brian May) Just a small note on Kali: Kali is the seventh incarnation of THE god Vishnu, in the Hindu religion. This incarnation signifies the "end of the world as we know it" when Kali gets on his white horse for a bit of a canter. If you want to know more & read a good book at the same time, pick up Gore Vidal's 'Kalki'. Om shanti, Brian May PS there is *one* music reference in there!
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/26/89)
Really-From: newman@frith.egr.msu.edu (Timothy S Newman) In article <7602@ditmela.oz> Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU writes: >Really-From: munnari!ditmela.oz.au!Brian.May@uunet.UU.NET (Brian May) > > >Just a small note on Kali: > >Kali is the seventh incarnation of THE god Vishnu, in the Hindu religion. This >incarnation signifies the "end of the world as we know it" when Kali gets on his >white horse for a bit of a canter. If you want to know more & read a good book at >the same time, pick up Gore Vidal's 'Kalki'. > Do you mean the tenth incarnation, Kalki? Kali is a goddess who is an incarnation of Durga. Kali is one of the wives of Shiva. This comes via Tim Newman but from Sushil, Eastern Indian Expert on Theology.