The "Eye of God" !

COOL!!:)

I never knew/noticed that the butt looked like an eye before:o

Kind of reminds me of the "eye of Saruman" from Lord of the Rings movie:)
 
Thank you. You are sympathetics, so here's a pix of me with my Khuk.
vilainpabo.jpg
;)
 
That was a neat picture, Stephensee, but if God really had eyes like that I'd be scared. Course, I'll be scared anyway.




munk
 
That makes a beautiful picture. I don't know about the eye of God but, it will sure get a bodies attention.:)
 
There's something I don't understand. As said B. Slade in his great website http://khukuri.netfirms.com/khukuri-history.html The khukuri however is far more than just a jawan's weapon :- in the hands of Nepal's large rural population the khukuri is a knife-of-all-work, serving to chop wood, slice vegetables, skin animals, cut grass and is also used in Hindu religious ceremonies. And almost everything about the khukuri means something. What we call a blood groove is said to be trident of the Hindu god, Shiva, the destroyer. The cho or notch has various meanings: the sun and moon (symbols of Nepal), the sexual organs of Hindu gods and goddesses, a cow track (the cow being sacred to the Hindus). The buttcap of the knife is said to resemble the eye of god - always watching, ever seeing. The rings around the handle also mean something though their true significance has been lost in the mists of time. Even the basic curve is said to look like a cresent moon, a symbol of Nepal.

For the the cho or notch : OK
For the buttcap of the knife : OK
For the basic curve : OK
But for the "blood groove" saying to be the "Trident" of the Hindu god, Shiva, the destroyer... I really don't see/understand!
Does someone could explain me that?

Thanks,
Stephen.
 
There must be some thing hypnotic about tha flick. Every time I see it I see something different. And, I like it more.:)
 
" What we call a blood groove is said to be trident of the Hindu god, Shiva, the destroyer."
But for the "blood groove" saying to be the "Trident" of the Hindu god, Shiva, the destroyer... I really don't see/understand!
Does someone could explain me that?

Thanks,
Stephen.

I understood the CHO to be symbolic of the Trident of Shiva (also a symbol of the Shivlig or Shiva Lingum )and share your question about the reference to the blood groove along the length of the blade's spine, unless the Cho is considered a blood groove?

:confused:
 
You guys are losing me....not hard. The sword of shiva is the parallel lines running a few inches long, about to the start of the curve of the blade, below the top of the spine from the hilt. The cho is below that on the underside, the cutout. If someone calls the sword a trident what care I? I don't think Shiva minds either. If He throws it atcha either way your'e dead.

I'm still curious about the meaning of the rings on the handle being lost in the mists of time. Those mists sure take a lot of knowledge with them when they leave...


munk
 
So it would be the SWORD of Shiva and not the Trident of Shiva...
I don't know. I'm not a specialist in india myth.
Does someone have a pix of Shiva with a sword, a trident, an Opinel, a tire-bouchon... or anything else?
 
Does someone have a pix of Shiva with a sword, a trident, an Opinel, a tire-bouchon... or anything else?>> Stephensee

I'm assuming tire-bouchon is a tire iron...very funny. And interesting..I wonder what the oldest known renditions of Shiva show him holding? Course, like us, he may have more than one Khukuri/weapon.


munk
 
I think that you're right Munk : it's certainly the SWORD of Shiva, may be a Tulwar blade.

(a tire-bouchon is a corkscrew)
 
corkscrew, tire iron, electric shaver, Sony Walkman; one of these computer whizz types could superimpose any image we liked for dear old Shiva. But yeah, I've almost always heard it called a sword.



munk
 
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