16 March 2006

Which Hindu Goddess Are You?

As a variation on those questionnaires that circulate via E-mail ("Croutons or bacon bits?"), I decided to fill in an online quiz to find out which Hindu goddess I most resembled. 30-odd questions later, I learned I am most like Sarasvati. According to this site, "Sarasvati is the goddess of knowledge, wisdom, learning and the arts. She is the consort of Lord Brahma, the creator, and is considered to be the most beautiful goddess (although not the most sexual). She's not as material-minded as Lakshmi, just as those with an intellectual streak are generally not as wealthy as their entrepreneurial classmates who went for a Business degree. She rides a swan and sits, peacefully playing her veena. She is the one you turn to for a mastery of an art form or of knowledge." I checked the extensive Wikipedia entry on her to find an explanation of her four arms. It tells me that, "she is generally shown to have four arms representing four aspects of human personality in learning: mind, intellect, alertness and ego." Take the Which Hindu Goddess Are You? test here. Via Revia's Blog.

2 Comments:

At 3/17/2006 12:21:00 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am such a sucker for those! Turns out I'm Ganga, the river goddess. I can live with that, but I really wanted to be Kali.

B-)

 
At 3/20/2006 05:07:00 a.m., Blogger Amy said...

Ganga! That's great. I don't know anything about her--I'll have to do some reading.

Maybe in another life you can be like Kali.

 

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