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celtic matsya

Celtic / Vedic Matsya - das avatara, this started as a sketch that got finished, I'd like to have another go some time.

 

Matsya (Sanskrit: मत्स्य, literally "Fish") is the avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu in the form of a fish, preceding Kurma. Often listed as the first avatar in the lists of the ten primary avatars of Vishnu, Matsya is described to have rescued the first man, Manu, from a great deluge. Matsya may be depicted as a giant fish, or anthropomorphically with a human torso connected to the rear half of a fish en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsya

 

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Matsya saved the four Vedas and as such it is understood that in the absence of a bona fide Guru one can take shelter of Him. see Bhagavat Purana.

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Uploaded on November 26, 2013