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**Blellurgews** · 07-03-2012, 12:41 AM

Also some Hindu gods are depicted as being blue, multi-armed, elephant headed, etc.. So white and black Hindu gods might not actually depict what we think of as white or black people. I mean the person in the background of that picture has gold skin.

Krishna =(Sanskrit: कृष्ण) (kṛṣṇa in IAST, pronounced [ˈkr̩ʂɳə] literally "black, dark blue"). That's why earlier he was depicted as a black-skinned deity.

Nevertheless, the idea of worshiping to the "swarthy" god didn't appeal to the W.A.S.P religious stereotypes. For the obvious reasons, in the western editions of "Bhagavad-Gita" Krishna appears as a dark-blue young man.

07-03-2012, 12:41 AM	#16
Blellurgews Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 442 Senior Member	Also some Hindu gods are depicted as being blue, multi-armed, elephant headed, etc.. So white and black Hindu gods might not actually depict what we think of as white or black people. I mean the person in the background of that picture has gold skin. Krishna =(Sanskrit: कृष्ण) (kṛṣṇa in IAST, pronounced [ˈkr̩ʂɳə] literally "black, dark blue"). That's why earlier he was depicted as a black-skinned deity. Nevertheless, the idea of worshiping to the "swarthy" god didn't appeal to the W.A.S.P religious stereotypes. For the obvious reasons, in the western editions of "Bhagavad-Gita" Krishna appears as a dark-blue young man.
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