Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India Tapa dura - 1998

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With the same startling originality and brilliance that made his The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony a literary landmark, Roberto Calasso narrates the birth of one of the world's great cultures: the formation of the mind of India. He doesn't explain or describe this mental world -- he regenerates it through its epic cyclical stories and customs until we no longer need to define it for ourselves, because we have come to know what it is.

So: Who is Ka? And who is the immense eagle asking the question, filling the sky, elephant and giant turtle dwarfed in his claws? How can he be the child of a woman? The first impact of Ka is one of tremendous strangeness, bewilderment, disorientation. Slowly, however, the strange becomes familiar, as new and even more fantastic stories are spun, gods emerge, sacrifices are performed. Why must the king's wife copulate with a dead horse? How is man reduced to an eye in an ant's nest? Why must the road to higher consciousness pass through an erotic adventure?