My participation for last month's theme:

Ganga, goddess of purification and personification of the river Ganges

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🌍 | Pataliputra - 0.300

Pataliputra era uma cidade na Índia antiga, originalmente construída em 490 a.C. como um pequeno forte, perto do rio Ganges.

Aparentemente, veremos Sersi e Ikaris realizando o casamento Hindu

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Lady at bath
Lith. de J.J. Belnos

Ablutions of a young Woman of rank on banks of Ganges. bathing at Ganga in Bengal
From Hindoo & European Manners in Bengal  (1832) by
Sophie Charlotte Belnos and Alexandre-Marie Colin

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AVANT-CRITIQUE > Kevin Huizenga, « Glenn Ganges dans le flot des souvenirs » () : Nuit des temps. À travers une longue insomnie de son héros, l'auteur livre une réflexion aboutie et inventive sur le temps qui passe.
📌 https://t.co/N0l1LGBZ1L

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here too women seems not behind men, they work together hand to hand with men? or even sometimes more too!
woman & Man carrying Ganges water, painting from Trichinopoly, ca.1860 trichirapalli (Trichy)?
reminds of Kavad yatra! काँवड़ यात्रा

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Une petite image pour chacune des trois bd qui seront prépubliées dans les pages du cahier d'été de Libé.
Le Grand Vide - Léa Murawiec (2024)
Papa Maman Fiston - les strips, de Lucas Méthé (Actes Sud BD)
Glenn Ganges dans le flot des souvenirs - Kevin Huizenga (Delcourt)

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With an average elevation of 4,500 meters, Ngari is the birthplace of the Yarlung Zangbo River, Indus River, Ganges River and etc., known as the “source of hundreds of rivers”. Tibet of China.

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Ganga
Early 19th century.
Company School, Patna, India
Source:
The personification of the holy Ganges. She is seen reclining on a lotus blossom that is resting on the back of a makara (mythical aquatic creature).

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Still much has to come out dumped into Ganges.

God Save India!!😕

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Ganges. Funny mind-bending short stories told with perfect cartooning.

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Artdaily recommends:
Sounds of survival: How the unique hearing of the Ganges river dolphin may have prevented its extinction Natural History Museum, London

Read more about this here: https://t.co/ssHcTJA9MM

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BIG NEWS for river dolphins: scientists show that endangered Indus & Ganges river dolphins are 2 separate species

https://t.co/OQfdMM2z4Q

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Shiva Gangadhara / Shiva Nataraja by YG Srimati, c.1945.

A rendering of the much-loved story in which Shiva captures the river Ganges (Ganga) in his braided hair.

Source: Met Museum

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The first fresh water dolphin in this thread is the Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica)

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Hindoo Pagodas below Barrackpore on the Ganges c 1824 George Hunt from plate 1 of Charles Forrest's
A Picturesque tour along the rivers Ganges and Jumna, in India
https://t.co/AWzsHqkCC2

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🐟 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches
Edinburgh: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1822.
https://t.co/l1eBiYOEwB

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🐟 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches
Edinburgh: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1822.
https://t.co/tPGYc5UPDX

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