SHIVA'S PLACES (book & DVD; en/de)

Shiva's Places

Authors: Christian Bau & Niels Gutschow

english / german

Verlag Peter Hess, 2006
ISBN: 3-938263-05-9
Format: Hardcover incl. DVD, 83 min. 120 pages, 82 color photos,
10 coloured maps

Benares, the sacred city at the Ganges in North India, is characterized by thousands of places, at which Shiva is manifest. In most cases he is worshipped with water, fire and flowers in the shape of a stone called linga: In ritual every human being acts as an artist.

Many of the enormous stones of Benares are considered as "self-created", others are perceived as still growing. They represent the particular quality of specific places and cannot be shifted. The movie presents rituals at 20 such places.

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