Skanda
In Chinese
Buddhism, Skanda Bodhisattva or Wei Tuo is a devoted celestial
protector of temples who protects Dharma...
Very
interesting is the fact that some ancient manuscripts, or preserved
oral heritage of various tribes contain information about the "mythical
twins" in reference to the beginning of the world - the Creation of
life. Allegedly, also the Hopi Tribe has a prophecy about the Twin
Warriors... In the culture of the Toltecs, Quetzalcoatl was
considered the God of the morning star and his twin brother, Xolotl,
the God of the evening star...
| Skanda (but also Subrahmanya, Kumara, Arumugan, Shanmugan, Murugan, Guha...) belongs to the Shaiva system. ... Ramayana has chapters on His birth. The Sanskrit epics and Puranas seem to indicate that He was the eldest son of Shiva, as the tale of Shiva's marriage to Parvati indicates. |
Skanda, the second
son of Shiva and the younger
brother of Ganesha - but some scholars oppose this view and
consider Skanda to be older than Ganesha, is also known as Kumara,
Karttikeya, Shanmukha, Subrahmanya, and He has many other names.
His weapon is a spear and He is considered to be a war God. He has
a strong support in South Asia (South of India - Indian state
Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, Singapore...)
Followers of this God consider Him to be an Avatar
of Lord Shiva. All incarnations are manifestations of the One Supreme
God. They also think that Lord Skanda and Lord Krishna
are one, and as evidence they use this verse from Bhagavadgita (Chapter
10), where Lord Krishna says this to Arjuna: "Senaninam
Aharn Skandah," - "Of the Generals, I
am Skanda."
A good article about Skanda can be found on the Murugan.org
website: http://murugan.org/research/child_god.htm
Sadkona Yantra
Yantra is a symbolic visualization of a deity;
yantras often look like a matrix with geometrical lines and when we
visualize it in our mind, we clear the path on our way to God (mantra
is a sound, usually a holy word, a syllable, or a sequence of such
words we repeatedly pronounce, most frequently in Sanskrit.).
Skanda emerged from the light of the six Shiva's
sparks, which flashed from the Lord Shiva's Third Eye, and
Skanda Yantra is almost identical with the famous hexagram
- the "Jewish Star", or the Star of David. The Seal
of Solomon also contained the hexagram image - the "yantra" of
the Biblical God YHVH (the word "yantra" is not used
in Jewish-Christian religions, though).
The Atharva Veda
describes Kumaran as "Agnibhuh"
or son of Agni, the fire god. The Satapatha
Brahmana refers to Him as the son of Rudra
and the ninth form of Agni.
The Seal of Solomon was a magical signet ring
said to have been possessed by King Solomon, which variously
gave him the power to command demons, or to do other miraculous things.
The God's name - Tetragrammaton ("word with four letters" -
YHVH) - was written on it. The identity of the holy depiction of the
God Skanda's symbol with the Jewish and Christian God, too - Sadkona
Yantra - gives a strong tinge to any argumentation in favor of the
fact that humankind has one common history and that the same God spoke
to Jews and to other people on this Earth in ancient times.
The pillar
of Shaivism, Buddhism, and other
denominations, too, is Mt. Kailasa - a 6638 meter high mountain in
the Himalayas (Tibet). It is also called the "Svastika Mountain".
