[UA] Jesus Christ, SuperAvatar!

[James Palmer]

> > Hinduism has rather more gods than three - I mean, technically everything
> > comes down to Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, but then they're all part of
> > God/the Absolute/whatever, so it's rather splitting hairs.
> 
> Quite... although sometimes these distinctions can make distinct
> differences, as in the combats between Arianism, Orthodoxy, and all
> the other varieties in the early history of Christianity.

True, but generally the Western Hindus are too sappy to do anything about
it and the Indian Hindus prefer to all get together and gang up on the
Muslims and the Sikhs.  Boy, the BJP are scary.

> 
> > In an 'orthodox' Hindu UA game, then, Entropy would be Shiva, Order
> > Vishnu, and Brahma the incarnate Godhead.  Or maybe Order is Brahma
> > and the Comte de Saint Germain is Vishnu
> 
> And, as it happens, Avatars of deities (although not in the UA sense - 
> more a part of that deity being around in a human being, or the deity
> being expressed through a human being, depending on how you look at
> it) are part of Hinduism. The Compte as Krishna?
> 

I don't think Krishna has Avatars per se, though I may be wrong - he's an
Avatar of Vishnu himself.  Compte as Vishnu Avatar makes sense, given the
whole preservation of the world thing.

Heh.  Scary thought.  Hinduism has a whole descending/ascending worlds
thing - i.e, the world starts off (well, doesn't start off, because it's
circular, but you get my meaning) near perfect, then the next world is
slightly less perfect, and so forth, all the way down to the Kali Yug, the
worst world, after which things start to get better again.  Now, Hinduism
generally believes we're already in the Kali Yug (each world lasts
thousands of years).  What if the PC's discovered that we're actually in
the best possible world, and it's all downhill from here ...

> > 'lila' - creative divine dance/play - would be an interesting concept to
> > apply to UA cosmology - the idea that the world is a game between the
> > Clergy.  Could lead into the self-referential plot from Over the Edge.
> 
> Hmm... nice. I like. Shiva Nataraja from Kult could also be brought in 
> here, although that would make it _not_ an _orthodox_ Hindu UA game.

Who he?  Some kind of evil demiurge, I presume, being from Kult.


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