The Hindu Temple v2.c11.s1.59

v2.c11.s1.59

Innumerable degrees of bliss and august serenity are expressed in the faces of most of the celestials, the gods (Pls. VII-VIII, XXXVII, XXXVIII) and glendoveers (Pls. XXIV-XXVIII), and they are set off against the relatively few types in which 'terror', gleesome 'disgust', etc., are given shape on the basis of an inflated or emaciated appearance (Pls. XXIX, LIX). Where however 'the supernatural' is the main theme and horror and dignity accompany it the face of the animal, the Lion mask, is resorted to (Pl. L).²¹ Its wide application and that of the less frequent "death-shapes" are the indispensable counterplayers to the evternally beatific youth of the other gods.