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Lintel carved of Kurma
Keywords :
| Type of artwork | Sculpture |
|---|---|
| Village | Musée Guimet |
| Country | Cambodia |
| Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree | Lat : 48.864722 Long : 2.293611 |
| Art | This sculpture is a part of the lintel of the scene when Vishnu disguised into a turtle to bear the mountain in stirring the milk sea. There are gods and demons on two sides standing in rows with thier hands touching the Naga. Above this is a row of swan and gods sitting with one knee up and put their hands together. In the middle, there is a mountain that the turtle bears. At the column, there is a Vishanu sculpture embracing the mountain. At the top, there is Bhraman. People in the carvings wear funnel-shaped-top crown caps, necklects with tufts, bracelets, short cloth and the end of the cloth has two fish tails on top of each other. Such characteristics are the features of Angkor Wat art. |
|---|---|
| Period | Historical Period |
| Art period | Angkor Wat |
| Age | 17 Century BE. |
| Religion | Brahmanism-Hinduism |
| Religion and belief | Kurma and Stirring the milk sea is an event when all of the gods who were cursed by hermits and always lost the battle with the demons had a plan to persuade the demons to participate in stirring the milk sea ceremony in order to get the alchemic water, which can help them regain their power. They used Muntara mountain as the stirring stick and Vasukri Naga to anchor the mountain. Vishanu disguised into the turtle of bear the mountain. |
| Type of License | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) |
|---|---|
| Rights | Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre |
| Date of record creation | 2015-02-00 |
| Record creator | Chedha Tingsanchali |
