Vishnu by Colin Poole

Title:	Vishnu
Date Created:	6/2015
Copyright:	© colinpoole.com
Genre:	Fantasy
Mediums:	Oils
Views:	744
Posted:	12/9/2016

In the Hindu religion, Vishnu's third avatar, or manifested form, was the boar. He is depicted either as the animal or as a boar-headed man. In this form he holds the wheel, conch shell, mace, and lotus flower that can be seen on the buttons of his coat. Vishnu assumed the boar form and plunged into the depths of the primeval ocean to rescue earth by lifting it up with his tusks. You will find the forms of the continents marked on his lower tusks. He calmed Earth and made it ready for mankind by molding the mountains seen in the background.