Archetype

Usage examples of avatar.

Only a third avatar of the authorial function can account for it all, a Kundera who is both author and narrator, one who simultaneously controls his writing and directs our reading.

In a flutelike voice, he sang of the sacred writings, or Vedas, composed well before the first millennium bc, and of the catalogue of magical yajnas, sacrificial formulas, mantras, and rituals that the Vedic religion embodied, and of the many schools, sects, and religions that had developed through the centuries: Sankhya, Yoga, Vedanta, Vaishnavas, Shaivas, Shak-tas, all of which were preached and practised under the separate canopies of Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, which in turn took their impetus from the original Vedic, changing and refining the basic precepts into a multiplicity of separate doctrines : Karma, avatar, samsara, dharma, trimurti, bhakti, maya.

She is a woman of immense importance and a separate monastery for women -- the Oracle Gompa at Yamdrok Tso, some sixty klicks farther along the dangerous ridge wall -- has held her as its prefect and avatar for more than seventy standard years.

Hiro finds that his avatar can walk right through the hypercards without disturbing the arrangement.

Most Palatians are very attached to their avatars and very captivated by the process of creating them and showing them off to others.

Ever since that blessed day, Willie Wheelie has been my avatar, the symbol of my desire for personal freedom and expression.

Sati, in her new avatar as Parvati, waited patiently for many thousands of our years in the grove where her lord sat meditating, gathering his favorite flowers and dressing her hair with their scented blossoms, and doing all she could to rouse him from his yogic trance.

Only Thyra was once affrighted when a night-jar flew up shrieking, for she was divided in her thoughts whether the old gods or the new were the more powerful and this bird might have been the shape-shifting Odin in one of his avatars.

That is a fact Hiro has never forgotten, because she did most of her work when they were together, and whenever an avatar looks surprised or angry or passionate in the Metaverse, he sees an echo of himself or Juanita -- the Adam and Eve of the Metaverse.

It takes a lot of practice to make your avatar move through the Metaverse like a real person.

So Hiro had to kludge something together, in order that the Metaverse would not, over time, become littered with inert, dismembered avatars that never decayed.

Disposal of hacked-up avatars is taken care of by Graveyard Daemons, a new Metaverse feature that Hiro had to invent.

As soon as the flames consume the avatar, it will vanish from the Metaverse, and then its owner will be able to sign on as usual, creating a new avatar to run around in.

They put the bitmap onto scrolls and gave the scrolls to avatars who went around the Metaverse looking for victims.

Some Metaverse real estate -- including The Black Sun -- wants to know how big your avatar is so that it can figure out whether you are colliding with another avatar or some obstacle.