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Moving Mountains and Swallowing Seas: Śaiva Gurus as Ecological Agents in Early South and Southeast Asia
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Moving Mountains and Swallowing Seas: Śaiva Gurus as Ecological Agents in Early South and Southeast Asia
Author: Elizabeth A. Cecil (Florida State University)
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The worship of Śiva in early South and Southeast Asia offered devotees a fully realized “religious ecology,” i.e., a system of mutually beneficial relationships between human communities, natural systems, and the nonhuman or more-than-human worlds in which they operated. Within this religious worldview, the Śaiva guru functioned as a critical terrestrial intermediary. In canonical early Śaiva texts, the guru was celebrated as an ecological agent capable of alleviating suffering and nurturing community. In material culture, the guru’s iconographic attributes (e.g., waterpot, trident, and lotus) signaled his ability to off
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