#I think you'll find that 'mandala effected' is perfect grammatical: I was created (in this world) by a mandala :P

[cthulhubert]

Back on my “Feeling like I was mandala effected” bullshit. So there’s this scarf thing that shows up in Asian art, primarily on the various memetic descendants of Apsaras: Feitian in China, Dakini in Tibet, and Tennyo in Japan (though not on the apsaras themselves), and sometimes on other gods/immortals/etc. It doesn’t seem to have a name, though it’s a component of the “hagoromo” of the Tennyo.

(In the second is a fisherman holding the entire hagoromo for selkie style reasons: the Tennyo can’t return to heaven without her robe.)

The mandala slide is this: I have such strong memories of reading about this iconography reaching the west, and appearing in all kinds of images of Greek goddesses and nymphs (and even continuing into Renaissance depictions of saints), where it was given a specific name that sounded kind of like “veil” (I wanna say “velifex”).

There was a whole “ancient aliens” conspiracy implying that this similarity in depictions meant people were visited by actual transcendant beings that had this as part of their costume (instead of, you know, visual references that look cool spread?).

After so much fruitless searching for examples of the Western version I’m starting to lean towards this all being a dream or brain malfunction, but it still stands out so clearly in my memory.