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Italian anthropologist Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi points out that the snake in India has ambivalent male/female associations.
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Dr Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi is a renowned Dravidologist. She was born in Germany and studied European languages at the University of Mainz. Her doctorate in the field of Anthropology is from the University of Rome. She has had repeated periods of fieldwork in India since 1971, especially in Tamil Nadu.
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Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi, on the other hand, argues that Hinduism displays unity within diversity.
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This and the following legends have been transcribed and translated for me by my colleague in the Istituto Universitario Orientale (Dipartimento di Studi Asiatici) Professor Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi, whom I thank.
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