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Sheetaladevi - The Smallpox Goddess
Content Provider | The Heritage Lab |
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Artist | Anonymous |
Organization | Cleveland Museum of Art |
Spatial Coverage | Kolkata West Bengal |
Temporal Coverage | 1800s |
Description | Sheetala, the smallpox goddess, is simultaneously benevolent and dangerous: she can both protect and infect, bless and curse devotees with smallpox and other diseases. Persons scarred by smallpox are believed to have been graced by her. She is appeased so that she does not infect her worshippers. Her name, Sheetala, “Cool One,” refers to her birth out of a cooled sacrificial fire. The rippled curtains above her are suggestive of theatrical tableau and Sheetalapala (The Drama of Sheetala) that was performed in Bengal. She sits astride her vehicle (vahana), the donkey. |
File Format | JPG / JPEG |
Access Restriction | Open |
Rights License | CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication |
Use Rights URL | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed |
Subject Keyword | Donkey Goddess Kalighat Kolkata Shitala West Bengal Kalighat Painting Painting Cleveland Museum of Art |
Content Type | Image |
Resource Type | Painting |