Extra Reading: Pattanaik. Seven Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art C

Ardhanarishvara: Wikipedia

7 Secrets Hindu Calendar Art - Chapter 3: Ardhanari's Secret by Epified
Gods can be represented with and without form. God is not limited to one form in Hinduisms. Male trinity associated with creating, sustaining, and destroying. Female trinity knowledge, wealth, power. Material reality is normally female, while spiritual reality is normally male. The goddess represents an absence of judgement. While male does represent judgement. Ash represents permanence. Triangles represents both movement and stillness. The left side of the body is change and right is still. Few cultures in the world that is comfortable with men and women. People take things too literally.


7 Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art - Chapter 4: Shiva's Secret Part 1 by Epified
Shiva destroys desire, death, and the three worlds. The three world the private, public, and the rest there is. He destroys the divisions by closing his eyes. He is indifferent to the world. The creator means different things to different people. Kali and Shiva are opposites. Shakta sect may have been matriarchal.