IE Chris (FA20)

Wikipedia Trail - Week #3 Carnatic Music Raga Tala Shruti I started looking at Carnatic music from doing research for my project topic. Then, I stumbled across Raga, Tala, and Shruti, which are all basic elements of Carnatic music. Shruti is the pitch, raga is the mode/scale, and tala is the rhythm. This would be nice to incorporate into a sort of cross-cultural theory program.  (Shruti pitches compared to the Western 12TET pitch system -  image - Wikipedia)

Wikipedia Trail: Week 2 Starting Link:  Yama Next Link:  Chitragupta Next Link:  Deva Next Link:  Asura I started researching Yama after researching Dharma. As I mentioned earlier, Dharma and Karma fascinating me a lot. Having a god to monitor this and be the dispenser of law is pretty cool to me.  Yama is accompanied by Chitragupta. Chitragupta monitors Dharma and is responsible for deciding where people go after their death. This decision is based on the individual's actions. Yama is a Deva, which is a classification of deity. Having deities classified into these "good" and "bad" classifications makes for interesting stories, and inherently presents us with a conflict.  Naturally, if I went down the rabbit hole of Deva, I had to go down the rabbit hole of Asura. This separation of identity deserves attention both sides. These were fascinating reads!      (Yama, Lord of Death and Justice - credit:  Wiki )