The Silent Killer: The Ass as Personification of Illness in North Indian Folklore
Sitala ('the Cold One'), a mother goddess worshipped in Northern India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh, is traditionally represented as a beautiful young lady riding a donkey. But the ass is a rather marginal character in both oral narratives and devotional/auspicious literature. Unlike th...
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| Language: | English |
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Equinox
2013
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Religions of South Asia
Year: 2013, Volume: 7, Issue: 1/3, Pages: 249-270 |
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B Disease B Donkey B Varanasi B Illness B Adalpura B Śītalā B religion and nature B smallpox goddess B vernacular Hinduism |
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