メトロポリタン美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (メトロポリタン美術館Instagram)「Happy #NagaPanchami to those who celebrate! The Hindu holiday is dedicated to the Naga Devta, or the snake god. 🐍 ✨ On the Indian subcontinent, temples have been dedicated to the worship of serpents—or #nagas—for millennia. They preside and guard over the riches of the subterranean world and exert power over the rains. Nagas are invoked to aid worshippers in times of both drought and flood. Both Buddhism and Hinduism adopted nagarajas and naginis (serpent kings and their consorts) as protective divinities and depict them in both snake and a hybrid snake-and-human form. These early Gupta period sculptures depict a pair of royal serpents carved in the round. The figures each have a snake body that loops behind and a cobra hood that forms a canopy over the head. 🎨 India (Madhya Pradesh). Nagaraja (Serpent King); Nagini (Serpent Queen or Consort of Nagaraja), ca. second quarter of the 5th century. Stone. #MetAnywhere [Image description: A pair of stone sculptures stand together in a gallery illuminated by overhead lighting at The Met. Each figure displays a serene expression and stands upright holding their left hand by their hip and their right hand by their shoulder. Behind them are their tightly coiled snake bodies.]」7月26日 0時10分