Six-armed things of Asiatic trances, temple belles entwined in temple dances: mantra in one hand, the other holds naan. One holding chutney and the other, paan. Two hands left (befitting of deity): one offers curry, one incense. Aseity signifies self-contented wonderment. (One wonders as well what that mantra meant...)
Note the third eye in the figure's forehead: a spare one in case left or right go dead? But really—how freakish these idols look: a ******-pantheon from a nightmare book. (Outdone only by the Aztecs for fright along with demons born of tribal night.)
Cobra-crowned elephant-headed mutants sickly-sweet incense, divine pollutants mix in with the stench of bodies burning alongside the filthy Ganges churning flowing with ashes from funeral ghats excrement, corpses of humans and rats that swarmed humble hovels of Hindustan where gods are mass-produced for fallen man.
Maidens in saris with red tinted lips; glossy vulgarity, loose at the hips now growing more arms; an insect vision enough to make one gag on religion. The ubiquitous trident looms, a sign: the eternally present un-divine. Instead, it ought to stick some sacred cow in its bovine buttocks, and so allow beef curry for a hungry avatar craving fresh meat in his juggernaut car.
Turn from this antediluvian scene in sincerity, ask: what does it mean? Were you created in these gods' image? Is anything real behind their visage? Blue skin and sick smiles, anointed with ghee: exotic... but wrong theologically. Till lingams are yonis I'll spell it out; these Aryan idols should merit your doubt. Such weirdness deserves some analysis (as did old Diana of Ephesus).
Would you tingle if such a god showed up and offered to refill your soma cup, sending siddhis up your spinal column with you in full lotus, clueless, solemn. Would you offer puja in their temple, bedeck your soul in a robe to sample veggie-masalas, chapatis and dal, peruse the Upanishads, and enthrall your mind with the mystic old Rig-Vedas fall for idolatrous sin conveyed as spiritual truth when it's just a big lie... bow before a multi-armed freak? Not I. Not for all the visions in Satan's world. Better to call B.S. than to be hurled to hell for living and loving this lie embracing monstrosities. By and by the books will be opened. The Lord will judge. Consider this your transcendental nudge toward something less false, less fearfully fake than the idols Antichrist nations make.
NaPoWriMo #15
TS Eliot wrote highbrow literary poetry (so-called)