Who Is Alvar Hanso?A couple of people over at Lost-TV forms stumbled across the fact that "Hanso" is Sanskrit for "Swan." But there's more to the story of the new mystery man on Lost. Although he's apparently Danish, his name has some interesting Indian links which are probably not entirely accidental (considering the Dharma drama playing out).
"Alvar" is Sanskrit/South Indian dialect meaning "He Who Masters the World Through the Worship of God," which is certainly an interesting connotation for the head of the Dharma Initiative. (Alvar can also mean a Hindu saint.) Hanso is not as simple as it seems either. Hanso (a variant of Hansa) was also the name of the original caste in India. Legend has it that once, long ago, there was only one caste, and that was the Hansa caste.
Offered for what it's worth. If you haven't already seen the Hanso Foundation Web site, click here to check it out. And by the way, who else caught the Mayan Calendar sitting on the shelf of the Degroots' office? 2012, here we come...
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OK, now I have to watch this show.
-Quagga
Better start with the DVDs, because this show is more self-referential than a thesaurus. (Also if it starts to blow chunks this year I can warn you so you can pretend it was canceled after the first year.)
hansa means white goose or swan, vehicle of the Asvins. It also corresponds in the West to the pelican of alchemy.
The asvins:
Asvins, Asvinau (Sanskrit) The two horsemen; two Vedic divinities which in some respects parallel the Greek Dioscuri, Pollux and Castor. Harbingers of Ushas (the dawn), they are represented as twin horsemen, appearing in the sky in a golden chariot drawn by horses or birds.
One myth gives their origin as children of the sun by a nymph, Asvini, who concealed herself in the form of a mare; another myth makes Asvini their wife. Since they precede the sun's rising they are called the parents of the sun's form, Pushan. They are also the parents of Nakula and Sahadeva, Arjuna's brothers by Madri. Many Vedic hymns are addressed to them; their attributes pertain to youth and beauty, to speed, and to duality.
They bring treasures to mankind, averting misfortune and sickness, for they are the two physicians of heaven (svar-vaidyau). Yaska, the earliest known commentator on the Vedas, in his Nirukta writes that the Asvinau represent the transition from darkness to light and are identified with heaven and earth.
Blavatsky says that "these twins are, in the esoteric philosophy, the Kumara-Egos, the reincarnating 'Principles' in this Manvantara" (TG 41). That the Greek Dioscuri were respectively the son of Zeus and the son of a mortal, is a direct reference to the dual character of the kumaric mind or the higher manas, an immortal quality in human beings in its higher aspect, the lower aspect being connected with the mortal part of the human constitution.
What you think is not real, is real. You have to stop them. I am not in control anymore. The island is real. What is happening is happening. You are being used. Stop asking the wrong questions.
I stil;l can do good for mankind help me
A.H.
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