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Art lifted up her head and was seated on her throne, and said, All eyes shall see me, and all knees shall bow to me. (William Hazlitt, on the Louvre)

Great art has dreadful manners. The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab yo...

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  • AGNI (M): fire, made the sun, filled the night sky with stars // shown with seven arms and a goat's head or as a red man with many arms and legs, riding a ram, belching and emitting light
  • INDRA (M): king of the gods, god of sky, storms and thunderbolts
  • MITRA (M): mediator between the gods and man; ruler of the day
  • SOMA (M): moon god; sacred drink
  • SURYA (M): sun god // dark red man with three eyeand four arms who rides in a chariot
    • SANJINA (F): wife; name means conscience
    • YAMA (M): son; god of the underworld - represents judgment by bringing happiness to the virtuous and righteous but bestowing suffering on sinners
    • YAMI (F): daughter; twin of Yami who resist her temptations
  • VARUNA (M): guardian of the cosmic order; ruler of the night
  • VRITRA (M): lord of chaos // serpent-dragon
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