https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije The 10 Avatars en-us 2019-03-27 19:56:50 UTC 2025-12-14 13:41:07 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345887078 -divine lover -> blue-black skin, wearing a yellow dhoti, with a crown of peacock feathers, shown playing the flute surrounded by gopis
-child Krishna (Balakrishna) -> crawling on his hands and knees or dancing, with a ball of butter in his hands
-used his proficient hunting skills to defeat fearsome enemies, demons, and monsters
-defeated Kamsa, his earthly uncle, who was forewarned his sister's eighth child would kill him
-some interpret his dalliances with the gopis as a symbol of the love between G-d and the human soul
-described as the Supreme Being or creator of the universe in some sacred texts
-Mahabharata]]> 2019-03-27 20:05:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345887078 https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345887738 - Son of Dasharthara
- Brother of Lakshmana
- Husband of Sita
- King of Ayothaya
- Blue
- Depicted with arrow on his right and bow on his left
-  Usually wearing yellow or red
-  Primary literary source is the Ramayana
- Defeated Ravana
- Seventh avatar of Vishnu
- Personifies the characteristics of an ideal person (aka ripped asf)]]> 2019-03-27 20:07:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345887738 https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345887852 -He appears in the form of a tortoise to support the foundation for the cosmos. 
-the second avatar.
-he holds a lotus, conch, discus, and mace.
-associated with churning of the ocean of milk myth

]]> 2019-03-27 20:07:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345887852 https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345887982 Narasimha
This is the fourth avatar of Vishnu, and he has the body of a man and a he had a head of a lion. He is known to be an avatar of great strength for Vishnu; this was Vishnu reincarnated as a half-man, half lion in order to kill Hiranyakashipu the demon. Hiranyakashipu had received a boon from Brahma which made him invulnerable from dying at the hands of a human or animal, from inside or outside, by day or by night, and that no weapon could harm him. Narasimha kills Hiranyakashipu by his nails. The death of this demon king is celebrated as Holi.]]> 2019-03-27 20:07:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345887982 jaderashford https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345888016 - Destroyer god
- Third eye represents wisdom
- Animal is tiger
- Third god of the trimurti
- Cobra around the neck
- Husband of Parvati
- Shiva linga is the symbol of Shiva
- Trident- represents the three function of the triumvirate
- Has two sons Ganesh and Kumar
- Sometimes depicted as half man half woman]]> 2019-03-27 20:08:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345888016 https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345888028 -Siddhartha Gautama, born in 6th century B.C. 
- born into a royal family 
-father was a king of the clan called the Shakyas
-He got married at 16
-He was sheltered all his life until his late 20s when he went out on his own. He saw people suffering and was so overcome by everything he saw that he left with his wife and son and sought to find how to end the universal suffering he discovered.
- For 6 years, he lived a life of self-discipline and avoided indulgence, studying and meditating. He practiced his life with 5 ascetics and they became his followers.
- When he couldn’t find the answers he wanted, he would make himself suffer more.
- One day he was offered a bowl of rice from a young girl and it was then when he realized that putting himself through harsh coniditions was not giving him spiritual release . After that, his followers left him.]]> 2019-03-27 20:08:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345888028 https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345888050 Show in either animal form or hybrid animal and human form.
One hand is holding a conch shell and the other a chakra
Another hand conferring a boon (varada mudra) and the other protection-affording pose (abhaya mudra). Matsya was caught as a little fish and then later grew into a giant fish where he saved mankind from a disastrous flood by allowing Manu is tie his boat to the fish horn on its head.

]]> 2019-03-27 20:08:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345888050 https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345888309 -riding a white horse and holding a flaming knife 
-arrives in the future 
-The tenth avatar of the godess vishnu
-One of the four periods in the endless cycle,  kirta. The avatar who rejuvenate existence by ending darkness and destruction.]]> 2019-03-27 20:09:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345888309 https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345888999 -Third incarnation of Vishnu
-Represented as a boar or human with boar head
-Fought the demon Hiranyaksha
-Brought the earth back up from the ocean with his tusks
-Formed the continents
-Sometimes depicted with the goddess Lakshmi or Bhumidevi
-His four legs are the vedas
-Tounge is agni]]> 2019-03-27 20:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345888999 https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345891594 -the fifth of 10 incarnations 
-Demon king Bali was tyler of the universe. Vishnu visited Bali as Vamana, a dwarf. He begged Bali as much land of him as he could step over in 3 strides. Bali laughed and granted the request as he was merely a dwarf. Vamana took a gigantic form and with the first step covered the entire Earth. With the second step he covered the midworld  between Earth and heaven. Finally, with the third step he stepped on Bali’s head in order to send him down below to rule the Netherworld. ]]> 2019-03-27 20:21:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345891594 https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345892372 2019-03-27 20:24:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345892372 https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345896339 2019-03-27 20:40:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345896339 https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345896769 Parashurama
This is the sixth incarnation of Vishnu.
Two caste systems : Kshatriya and Brahamana
Brahmins came out on top.]]> 2019-03-27 20:41:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ashcatash/8u0wucnt9ije/wish/345896769