Very interesting statue

[Maxim]

Bronze.
Can gilded.
What century is not known to me.
Homemade stand.

[Maxim]

Tell me anything!
May have something similar?
That means 5 skulls on the crown?

[usynin2]

Ask in this thread may help. "Art of China and Japan"

http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showthread.php?t=51911

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A statuette of Shiva.
Five skulls - five of the divine roles of Shiva.
On the forehead - the third eye.
Visible from the back skin of a tiger - a symbol of chastity.
Legs that encircle it - sex symbol, a symbol of lust.

Age to me is not clear.
Similar to the east are doing and have done a lot.

[Maxim]

Artem, with wife Shiva Shakti.
I looked through many sites of ancient Indian mythology, but nowhere found something like that in the hands of Shiva.

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Сообщение от Maxim

but nowhere found something like that in the hands of Shiva.

Maybe something for smoking, for example tube-chillum.
In the east, the saints are depicted with a pipe, they can be of different shapes.

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Indra - Shakti. Tantric sculpture group. Indra has four hands. In one hand he carries the vajra - terrible lightning, in others - a shell (Samkhya).
Indra - the ancient Vedic god of rain, thunder and lightning. In the Vedas, Indra is the king of all gods. In the early Vedic period, Indra was very powerful deity, he was considered the patron saint of cows, priests and even the gods themselves. It is similar to the Roman Jupiter, the Thunderer. Indra is the king of the sky (heaven), the god of thunder and lightning.
People presented with Indra, his favorite drink - juice of Soma. Then the zipper, and is associated with Indra, begins to throw their arrows at the demon Vrittru and Vrittra howls of pain, and flees, the water pours down on the parched earth, and everyone is happy - humans, animals and plants.
 In the divine hierarchy, its position is lower than that of the divine triad of Shiva-Vishnu-Brahma. Later, Indra began to call the owner and master of Svarga (svarga) - heavenly paradise where the souls of dead warriors in battle, basically the same exercise Indra - to detect human frailties.