In the play, the protagonist refers to the kobold as Shiva, the god of destruction in Indian mythology. What kind of character is this?
In Indian paintings, the classic image of Shiva is: a three-headed and six-armed humanoid god similar to the Thousand-handed Avalokitesvara, without a dog head or similar physical features.
What kind of props are such obvious "mistakes" placed here?
At the end of Borges' novel "The Other Man", there is this sentence: The
other man dreamed of me, but the dream was not real. Now I understand that he was dreaming about the impossible year on the dollar.
Similarly, interpreting the fallacy in dreams from the perspective of obscurcity and vraisemblance can roughly guess the screenwriter's little tricks :)
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