Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/16/89)
Really-From: Julian.West@mac.dartmouth.edu I think the goddess is Kali, not Shiva, and the quote is "I _am_ become death, the destroyer of worlds." --------------------------------------------------Julian-----------
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/17/89)
Really-From: Andy Tucker <tucker@Neon.Stanford.EDU> In article <658289@mac.Dartmouth.EDU> Julian West writes: >I think the goddess is Kali, not Shiva, and the quote is >"I _am_ become death, the destroyer of worlds." The _god_ is Vishnu. It's from the Bhagavad Gita---Vishnu takes his multi-armed form to impress the Prince into doing his duty and says "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." For a fascinating look at the people and events involved in the development of the atomic bomb, see Richard Rhodes' THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB. -- Andy Tucker tucker@cs.stanford.edu "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies. ---Faulkner