Friday, November 25, 2005

Symbols


I took this in the Fort at Agra. Its just a set of wall carvings, but is notable for the trippy mixture of swastikas and Stars-of-David put side-by-side. It was made centuries ago by Babur, the first great Moghul emperor, so they meant completely different things to him than they do to modern western minds. Just more evidence that one needs to be careful when interpreting symbols across cultures.

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