<!--QuoteBegin-ramana+Nov 21 2008, 03:37 AM-->QUOTE(ramana @ Nov 21 2008, 03:37 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Bodhi asked
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->1. While gaNapati rules, kumAra is all but forgotten. totally ignored. why?
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In one of the kathas narrated on Ganapati pooja day....
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Such tales have evolved throughout the trajectory of religious development to retro-justify the practice of their respective concurrent times. These narratives are not the <b>cause</b> of the phenomenon, but in reality an <b>effect</b> of it. Phenomenon itself does not take place instantly instead grows over an elongated period of time. Important deva-s of old are first reduced in importance as the other deva-s grow in importance, then slowly forgotten, sometimes incorporated in new practices and pantheon with modifications or reduced function/status.
However kumAra is not one of those deva-s. He is still very much a popular deva of shaiva-shAsana, even in the present day, even though in some regions worship of gaNapati became more popular.
My question was specific to ekali~Ngeshwara mahAdeva shrine, where I could not locate even one vigraha of kumAra...while all other deva-s are present.
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->1. While gaNapati rules, kumAra is all but forgotten. totally ignored. why?
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In one of the kathas narrated on Ganapati pooja day....
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Such tales have evolved throughout the trajectory of religious development to retro-justify the practice of their respective concurrent times. These narratives are not the <b>cause</b> of the phenomenon, but in reality an <b>effect</b> of it. Phenomenon itself does not take place instantly instead grows over an elongated period of time. Important deva-s of old are first reduced in importance as the other deva-s grow in importance, then slowly forgotten, sometimes incorporated in new practices and pantheon with modifications or reduced function/status.
However kumAra is not one of those deva-s. He is still very much a popular deva of shaiva-shAsana, even in the present day, even though in some regions worship of gaNapati became more popular.
My question was specific to ekali~Ngeshwara mahAdeva shrine, where I could not locate even one vigraha of kumAra...while all other deva-s are present.