The goddess/marriage partner is nebulous...can be everywoman/everyman on a
spiritul quest.  Milarepa was one of the greatest teachers/poets of the Tibetan
Buddhist tradition.

The orange-haired deities help us ward off greed, etc. so that we can
transcend the birth, death, rebirth cycle.

kol tuv, Ryfkah


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<< Hi Ryfkah,

Thanks for your last reply!

I'm still a bit lost with this poem!

It's hard work!

Maybe what I know about Milarepa is deficient...

I mean I thought he was to be married - to someone called Zesay (who wasn't

a goddess, I don't think...)

But I accept that he had a knack of changing peoples minds - is that what

you're inferring he did with this (un-named) goddess?

Ha - if that's what's inferred in the first stanza then I'm left to puzzle

out just who the orange-haired deity is near the end! (and if he's giving a

malevolent or a contented chuckle!).

It could just be that I don't know anything like enough to savour this poem.

Knowing who's who matters, I guess.

Bob >>