Scarabs and robins

 

Credit: Francis C Franklin

This doesn´t mean anything, but it´s a funny (and somewhat weird) co-incidence. Yesterday, I was strolling in the local parkland-or-very-managed-woodland, reflecting on the Upanishads, Enneads and what have you. At one point, I wondered if there is a compassionate divine savior somewhere in the "pantheist" cosmos. Krishna, perhaps? 

*Immidiately after that* a European robin appeared and started flying/"dancing" around me. Eh? I usually don´t see robins in that part of the park. Or ever, really. When I asked ChatGPT about robins and folklore, it turned out that this particular bird is associated with...Christ?! The robin wanted to ease Christ´s suffering on the cross and therefore removed one of the thorns from the crown of thorns on his head. That is, both the bird and Jesus are "compassionate saviors". This lore seems to be English.

A sign from God that I should convert to Anglicanism? But then it struck me that some Hindus consider both Jesus and Krishna to be avatars of Vishnu. Indeed, the Hare Krishna leader Prabhupada even claimed that Christ and Krishna were the same person?!

Hmmm...

A co-incidence, of course.