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100 1  Handelman, Don.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n88194207 
245 10 One god, two goddesses, three studies of South Indian 
       cosmology /|cby Don Handelman. 
264  1 LEIDEN :|bBrill,|c2014. 
300    1 online resource (xvii, 218 pages) :|billustrations (some
       color. 
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490 1  Jerusalem studies in religion and culture,|x1570-078X ;
       |vvolume 18 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-213) and 
       index. 
505 0  List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Contributors; 
       Preface; Chapter One The Cosmic Vortex and Don Handelman's
       Anthropological Vision: A Personal View; Chapter Two Myths
       of Murugan: Asymmetry and Hierarchy in a South Indian 
       Puranic Cosmology; From Fragmentation to Encompassment: 
       The Asymmetry of Shiva; The Death of Kama: Asceticism 
       Ascendant and the Nadir of Shakti; The Creation: A Chain 
       Reaction of Fragmentation; The Asura Wars: The 
       Assimilation of Shakti and the Encompassment of the 
       Cosmos; The Asuras: The Asymmetry of Shakti; The Birth of 
       the Asuras: Seduction and Illusion. 
505 8  The Education of the Asuras: The Value of Materialist 
       RealityThe Incorporation of Evil; From Encompassment to 
       Immanence; Shakti and the Devolution of the Divine; 
       Iconography, Reflexivity, and Shakti; Encompassment and 
       Immanence: Acting in the World; Conclusion; Chapter Three 
       The Guises of the Goddess and the Transformation of the 
       Male: Gangamma's Visit to Tirupati, and the Continuum of 
       Gender; Gangamma in Tirupati; Gangamma's Story; Gangamma 
       Comes Home; The Goddess Disguised; Gangamma's Feet; The 
       Goddess Revealed; Multitudes of Gangamma; Gangamma Meets 
       Gangamma and Transcends Herself. 
505 8  Gender, Cosmos, CasteBibliography; Chapter Four Growing a 
       Kingdom: The Goddess of Depth in Vizianagaram; 1. Prologue
       : Every King Needs a Goddess. On the Curved and the Flat, 
       Wilderness and Civilization; 2. The Birth of Paiditalli; 
       3. Historical Excursus; 4. Goddesses are Grown (Gods are 
       Not); 5. The (Re)Birth of Paiditalli: The Ritual of Devara
       Pandaga; 6. The Growing of Rice; 7. Pot-Paiditalli Furrows
       and Sows; 8. The Tevadam Rite: Bringing the Sprouting 
       Goddess Out of the Earth; 9. Nearing the Sirimanu: Ratham,
       Swing, and Tolellu-the First Furrow; 10. The Sirimanu 
       Jatra. 
505 8  11. Uyyala Kambālu-Swinging Away to the Wilderness12. 
       Concluding Thoughts; Index. 
520    One God, Two Goddesses studies through their deities three
       very different South Indian cosmic worlds whose existence 
       depends on their incessant dynamism, which is deeply and 
       intimately related to ongoing transformation and 
       regeneration. 
588 0  Print version record. 
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       names/n2017240340|xCult.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
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655  0 Electronic books. 
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