statues

[Dustypuppy]

Just interested, which Hindu deities do you have represented in your home and whcih is your favourite? i have a beautiful statue of Durga on her lion every time I see it it fills me with inner strength and convition x

[Agaliha]

Statue wise the only one I have is of Saraswati. I have many images that I've printed out and laminated though-- various deities.

I got it at Target along with a large elephant one!
Solid brass. 30% off. Sweet deal. It was normally around $60. So I saved a lot.

Here's the Saraswati one:
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/8085/s320x240ty0.jpg

I put an arrow pointing to my elephant statue, it's pretty big (not huge-- behind it is one bigger, gotten for my b-day-- it's wood. On the other side is another larger one, ceramic with a nice glaze on it) and heavy! This was part of my elephant shrine sort of thing. I have a growing collection of all things elephant. They mean a lot to me, on many levels.

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/6467/elephantshrineagaliha2ap9.jpg


Oh and a large (cookie jar :lol: ) of a cow that I sometimes put on my altar because it reminds me of various deities and nourishment and other such things in general. (I added a that bindi on it!)
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c121/BelleTerre/alter20062.jpg

[Cinnamon1991]

THough I don't honor Hindu deities, I have quite some Hindu statues because I used to collect them. I've got quite some Ganesha's, a few Lakshmi's, two Sarasvati's, Shiva (meditating and Nataraja), three Parvati's and a very pretty Durga on lion. I'm not at home so I don't know which statues I exactly have, but my favorite is a very colorful, detailed Lakshmi ^^ (I know I'm a statueholic 8O)

[Agaliha]

Lucky!
Do you have pics?

I've been wanting Shiva Nataraja for a long time now. I just can't find one that I like that's affordable. They're usually pretty expensive or affordable, but crappy quality and/or too small (like 4 inches).

[Cinnamon1991]

I will make some pictures tomorrow.
My Shiva Nataraja isn't of very good quality. It's brass ( I think), but quite small and undetailed.. But I just bought it 'cause it wasn't really expensive, like 10 dollars, I think.. Some good ones are hard to find, and when you found one you like, it's always way to expensive =/.

[Anubis RainHawk]

At the moment, I have a statue of Shiva Nataraja and Shiva as Mahadeva that I've used for home pujas. I also have a little Kali statue.

ARH

[Cinnamon1991]

I promised some pictures earlier, sotty for the delay. I said I don't honor Hindu deities but I might take that back (I'm learning a lot about Hindu practices and traditions lately and the Hindu path may be for me, just for clearing things out)

From the left to the right:
Picture # 1: clay ganesha, polystone Shiva and another clay Ganesha, in front of the polystone Shiva lies a small Shiva Nataraj.

Picture # 2: resin Parvati (or Lakshmi?) statue, Krishna wallet (not a statue but I like it), metal Parvati, copper Ganesh with umbrella, Devadasi (temple dancer).

Picture # 3: cheap polystone Durga, overpriced brass (I think?) Durga, colorful clay Ganesh on shankh, metal Saraswati, stone Parvati (or lakshmi?, same as picture before, only here she is handcarved out of stone), Lakshmi with diya in her hand.
On the wooden box is one of my favorite statues: Lakshmi.

Picture # 4: Minitature statues; Ganesh (first deity statue I ever bought), another Ganesh with lingam, sort of photoframe with Saraswati, really small but really detailed Hanuman and another really small but detailed statue, Durga.

Picture # 5: cheap polystone Lakshmi, bronze Saraswati, brass Shiva, brass dancing Ganesh, big and heavy bronze Lakshmi. On the wall is a Balinese Hanoman mask.

[Cinnamon1991]

You can only post 5 pictures at a time so here's the last.

From left to right: colorful clay Ganesh, clay Ganesh that looks like metal, wooden Lakshmi. In front of the big Ganesh are two polystone Lakshmi's and another little clay Ganesh.

[Cinnamon1991]

Oops I forgot the picture:

[Starry Night]

Cinnamon, your statues are gorgeous!

[SacredWithin]

I have a little Ganesh statue that I got for about $5. It's cute. :-) Ganesh has always been one of my favorites from the Hindu faith. Ganesh, to me, has always been a VERY strong, yet gentle spirit. :-) I have a picture of Lakshmi as well.

[Toby Stimpson]

I finally now have the determination to get things rolling here :P. Sooo, here we go.

I have three main Hindu statues, and like dozens of pics.

I have a Ganesha, Shiva and Kali statue. I also have a small soapstone Lingam. Thats on my main altar. I have a few other pieces that are in storage that I use mostly for decoration or to one day give as a gift.

Several small Buddhas. Kuan Yin. A really great brass Ksitigarbha in his Chinese form. A brass Nataraja. And a load of others.

We're lucky to have some great import stores here in Toronto, both Chinese and Indian.

The first pic below is my current Altar set up.

The second is Ksitigarbha, in his Chinese and Japanese form.

The third, fourth and fifth pics are all ones I took with friends while visiting Kitchen Queen, which is one of the three major Hindu religious import stores. They're amazing...they actually had a large statue of Lord Shani, and finding painted anthromorphic murtis of the Navagrahas is hard in Canada

[David19]

I finally now have the determination to get things rolling here :P. Sooo, here we go.

I have three main Hindu statues, and like dozens of pics.

I have a Ganesha, Shiva and Kali statue. I also have a small soapstone Lingam. Thats on my main altar. I have a few other pieces that are in storage that I use mostly for decoration or to one day give as a gift.

Several small Buddhas. Kuan Yin. A really great brass Ksitigarbha in his Chinese form. A brass Nataraja. And a load of others.

We're lucky to have some great import stores here in Toronto, both Chinese and Indian.

The first pic below is my current Altar set up.

The second is Ksitigarbha, in his Chinese and Japanese form.

The third, fourth and fifth pics are all ones I took with friends while visiting Kitchen Queen, which is one of the three major Hindu religious import stores. They're amazing...they actually had a large statue of Lord Shani, and finding painted anthromorphic murtis of the Navagrahas is hard in Canada

Cool altars and statues, Galadraal, they look really cool :).

[Darkest Eve]

Kali... and a mini Buddha. :lol:

I love my mini Buddha, and couldn't resist him when I saw him.

And Kali... well, she needs no explanation.

[el123]

Although I worship Ganesh and Kali daily I have no statues of these gods at home.
I have one large framed Ganesh picture (A little smaller than A3 size) - I keep this on the East. So when I worship each morning I can see the picture and the sunrise as well.
I don't have any pictures of Kali - I face West and worship her at night in the dark. So I feel she is all around me when I do.
I have a few pictures of other gods which I don't keep on display.
I got a large framed picture from a Hindu friend - a scene from the Ramayana. Rama on his chariot. It was about 6 x 4 feet. I gave this away to another Hindu friend coz I thought he would appreciate it more than I would.

Being Buddhist I have plenty of Buddhist statues. Most of them were gifts from friends. One marble from Buddhagaya, one black one from Thailand, one one-foot-tall white plaster from Sri Lanka, another white stone one from Sri Lanka, another black one from Sri Lanka, one framed picture which my grandfather got from India (These are all seated Buddhas), and I also have a leaf from the original Bo Tree in India - which I have framed. And a framed picture of the monk Sevali on the inside of my front door for good luck.
Plus I have a tiny set of 6 chinese laughing Buddhas (the fat ones), Another wooden one about 1 foot high, and a large stone one in the garden about 2 and a half feet high.
Plus I also have two small Devil's Masks on my front door to ward off Evil Eye.
;)

[Gaudior]

Just Ganesha right now :)