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Hindoo Architecture - A Composition

Artist: David Roberts (Scottish, 1796-1864)

Date: 1829

Medium: Oil on panel

HINDOO (KY)

Virgil- Florence, by Lexington

Racing Career-

35: 30-3-2

$71,875

WON: Kentucky Derby, Travers S., Jockey Club S., Clark H.

26 Stakes total Stakes wins

18 race-winning streak in 1881

Never off the board in 35 starts

Eclipse Champion Juvenile 1880

Eclipse Champion 3 Year Old Colt 1881

Eclipse Champion Older Male 1882

Racing Hall of Fame 1955

Later Career-

Sired champions Hanover and Sallie McClelland

Sired 1889 Preakness winner Buddhist 

Sired stakes winner Hindoocraft, Jim Gore and Merry Monarch 

Damsire of 1906 Preakness winner Whimsical

Damsire of champion Helios

THE HINDOO PRIEST.

In India, the jadoo-wallah, or exorcist, thrives apace; and no wonder, for is not the lower-caste Hindoo community bhut, or demon-ridden? Every village, graveyard, burning-ghat, has its special bhut or bhuts; and the jadoo-wallah is the earthly mediator between their bhutships and the common folk. The exorcist is usually the spiritual adviser to the population of a low-caste village, and is known as a gooroo, or priest: that is to say, he professes to hold commune with the spirits of defunct Hindoos which have qualified for their unique position in the other world—by their iniquity in this one, perhaps. Every Hindoo has a guardian bhut that requires propitiating, and the gooroo is the medium.  [9]

Johann: on the arch-Angel Myklye

Who art thou, Johann? Without hesitation, you are in control of all life; all death. Even Angel Myklye! Yoham and I, we danced with Death, oh! Oh! Death, what step, what groove, what hop of the Lindees! Are you of Mortales? Hop, hop! Yoham you Jew of infinity! Thine hair; silver! Shine! Ohm, Yoham, you moon! Proud, proud moon! Of silver, of gold … you ghost! Leave us not … Our body suffers, he…