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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 759831, member: 2844&quot;]Gorgeous!</p><p>Balinese, not very old, but artist made. It could be two manifestations of Vishnu, but in Balinese iconography things can be tricky. </p><p>But assuming it is Vishnu, one manifestation of him holding the vessel with Amrita, the nectar of immortality.</p><p>The hog is Vishnu as Varaha, an avatar of him as he rescued the earth Goddess Bhudevi who had descended into the primordial water to escape from a demon. No Bhudevi, no earth, so she had to be retrieved. And what creature is better at retrieving things (or Goddesses) from murky water than a hog?</p><p><br /></p><p>All deities have a masculine and a feminine aspect, usually depicted as separate beings. Shiva is androgynous, and is often portrayed as a hermaphrodite.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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