Another look

I have been looking at the face of deities of Hindus over decades since my childhood days. I wasn't critical then but now a new angle of relooking baffles me. Why they are clean shaven, a bit feminine and with golden crowns and ornaments. Of course Brahma the creator, Vishwakarma the engineer and the rishis sport long beards. No one is bald.The goddesses on average look as if of the age 35.

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