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Taditkara: One of my occasional ‘god’ spots, designed to
show those who think theirs is the only deity (OMG, you mean He isn’t?) that
there are, in fact, almost as many gods and goddesses worshipped as there are prejudices
amongst those poor deluded individuals who’ve been brain-washed, in all areas.
(Complex sentence! I really should rephrase it, but I somehow can’t find the
motivation).
Taditkara is, so it would seem, a Buddhist goddess of light.
Generally associated with the colour green and with lightning, her attributes
take lightning in the form of a creeper. What, exactly, one is supposed to take
from this, I’ve no idea. Is this worship of lightning, green or creepers? Or is
this unimportant deity merely a personification of these qualities? I believe
that polytheism is as valid as monotheism (i.e. invalid) and has the advantage
for those convinced by it that there is more than one being to blame when
things go wrong. Such appears to be the nature of the human being: we seem to
need someone to accuse when natural events occur.
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