The Lord Vishwakarma
According to Hindu tradition, all the arts and crafts are of divine origin, having being revealed and handed down to certain individuals by “the miraculous genius” (Zimmer, 1962, p.3) Lord Visvakarma—the creative archetypal power. The Primordial Creator and Supreme Patron of Arts, Crafts, Science and Creativity is Lord Visvakarma (Sharma, 1989). He is at once the Great Architect of the Universe, Spirit of the Creative Process, and a symbol of Total Centered Consciousness. He is also known as Vis- vakarmaya: Creative Power of the Whole Universe. The obvious meaning of the word Visvakarman is “all-maker” (visva means ‘all’ and karman means ‘maker’) Visvakarma the “All Creating” thought to be the Vulcan of the Greeks and Romans (Wilkins, 1882), appears as an independent Hindu deity as early as last book of Rig-Veda. Later in the Brahmans he is “expressly identified with the creator Prajapati” (Hastings, 1960, III, 606,b). As the highest of th...