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jayhills49

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on: Jun 23, 2018
What is the significance of the dancing Shiva in the large bronze and copper images made in southern India as early as the tenth and eleventh centuries?
 
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Just as Christianity affected culture in the West after antiquity, which belief system affected culture in the East, effectively spreading from India, across all of Asia, to Japan?
 
  a) Buddhism
  b) Islam
  c) Hinduism
  d) Taoism


cclemon1

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Reply #1 on: Jun 23, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: Shiva embodies the rhythms of the universe, and he promised to dance in the hearts of his devotees as well as in his sacred grove in Tamil Nadu. In these images, he dances in a circle of fire, symbolic of creation and destruction, the cycle of birth, death, and reincarnation.

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Answer: a


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