大英博物館のインスタグラム(britishmuseum) - 4月30日 03時52分

It's #InternationalDanceDay! Here's a bronze figure of the Hindu god Shiva, who appears as the lord of the dance, Nataraja, in a ring of fire. His long ascetic's hair flies out on either side of his head as he performs his dance.

In Hindu belief, Shiva as Nataraja appears at the end of one cosmic cycle and the beginning of the next, and is thus associated with both creation and destruction. In his hands he holds both the destructive fire and the double-sided drum, the sound from which summons up new creation. Traditionally time in India is considered to be cyclical, rather than linear, as in the West.

From Tamil Nadu, southern India. Chola dynasty, around AD 1100.
#dance #India #art #history

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