Artist description Avatara draws their influence from Savitri Devi, the first person to recognize, and explicate, the kozmic nature of a national based socialism. Devi, although born in France, developed a profound interest and knowledge of Hindu kozmology, and recognized the connection between Hinduism and the Germanic cultures of Europe. Devi wrote of how: “Well did von Sebottendorff, founder of the famous Thule Society, owe a lot to his visits to India and his contacts with the Hindus conscious of their Hyperborean traditions.”In her magnum opus, The Lightning and the Sun, Devi’s kozmological ideas acquired their most succinct expression. She considered history as cyclic, and embodied within certain figures who represent deities from Hindu kozmology. The god Vishnu was manifested in the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaton, the man above time who is symbolised the sun. Shiva was embodied in Genghis Khan, the man in time, symbolised by lightning. While Kalki (the tenth avatar of Vishnu) will become manifest in the man against time -who lives in eternity, while acting in time- and who combines both the lightning and the sun. Devi saw Adolf Hitler, not as Kalki himself, but as an avatar of the avatar, one who prepares the way for his coming. For as Hitler himself stated: “I am not he; but while nobody comes forward to prepare the way for him, I do so.” Kalki will appear at the conclusion of, and to complete, the current age of Kali Yuga. He will manifest as a warrior on a white horse; in southern India, he is believed to be the horse itself), bearing an immense sword: "To diminish he burden of the earth, the unborn Lord will take birth in the Yadu dynasty and performfeats impossible even for the demigods. Propounding speculative philosophy, the Lord, as Buddha, will bewilder the unworthy performers of Vedic sacrifices. And as Kalki, the Lord will kill all the low-class men posing as rulers at the end of the age of Kali." The figure of Kalki was interpolated into the biblical book of Revelation also; a book which relates a gnostic visionary experience, rather than a Judaeo-Christian prophesy. In Revelation 6:6, the saint writes: "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.”

Music Style Avatara combines contemporary dark ambient and western industrial elements with classical ragas, and other Indian instrumental forms. Musical reference is also made to the Japanese nationalist Yukio Mishima, with the influence of the sparse Japanese Zen flute form of composition.

Musical Influences Savitri Devi

Similar Artists Rapoon, Coil, Nocturnal Emmissions.

Artist History I have become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Group Members *Maya (All drums, flutes, chimes, and bells),*Sindur (Keyboards, vocals, effects, and sample manipulation)

Instruments Keyboards, DX7 synth, Indian Flute, Bells, Chimes, Samples.

Albums The Lightning and the Sun (2001)

Location Wellington, North Island - New Zealand

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