Śiva, the erotic ascetic /
"Highly acclaimed upon its original publication in 1973 under the title Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva, this book applies a structuralist method to a corpus of mythology never before analyzed, or for the most part, translated from the Sanskrit. The author traces the developm...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1981, ©1973.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the interpretation of Hindu mythology
- Asceticism and eroticism in early Indian mythology
- The Vedic antecedents of Siva
- Siva and Brahma: opposition and identity
- Siva and Kama
- Siva in the pine forest
- Siva as ascetic and householder
- The control and transformation of desire
- Cycles of asceticism and sexuality
- Conclusion: the pendulum of extremes.