Anthropologist 💀 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams ⛰ and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷♀️ She/They)
...almost no one talking about Marxism in the news right now is using the term even remotely correctly.
This fake was pretty good though. More convincing than some I've seen. 
The paper, "The inevitability of folk etymology: a case of collective reality and invisible hands" by Rundblad and Kronenfeld, traces the popularity of folk etymologies through a kind of linguistic consensus. Or, as anthropologists say, because they do a kind of "cultural work." 
Archaeologists aren't "dismissive" of Graham Hancock's theories. That implies that they are hand-waving him away out of arrogance. Archaeologists don't take Hancock seriously because he's been peddling theories of Atlantis for 30 years with absolutely NO evidence for his claims.
Take, for instance, this Tweet from Paul Gosar regarding the "Don't Say Gay" bill. 
The reason for this is that one of the more successful models of ecological activism in South Asia recently has been to pair religious site significance with environmental protection/planning. 
Surya means the Sun in Nepal and in India. Synonyms of Surya in ancient Indian literatures include Aditya, Arka, Bhanu, Savitr, Pushan, Ravi, Martanda, Mitra, and Vivasvan; names which are occasionally imparted onto the Surya Shaligram depending on the religious tradition.
The meme above was posted by the Facebook page "Ladies of Another View." A BekNews show that is pretty predictably "anti-woke, anti-Leftist" in its content and perspectives. I, however, got it in my feed as the result of my family sharing it extensively.
Because it should truly be celebrated in all its forms! 
Vaasudev carries a wide variety of meanings depending on the particular Hindu tradition in question. In Indian epic poetry, Vasudeva is the father of Krishna. He was the brother of Nanda Baba, the chieftain of the cowherder tribe... 
There are many reasons for this. Primarily, I'm often asked for help in identifying Shaligrams from people who either don't have access to gurus or ritual specialists from their home traditions and/or those who were never able to receive instruction on Shaligram interpretation. 
I began my Master's fieldwork in northern India in 2012. At the time, I was specifically interested in deity care. As in, how did people encounter the material Divine and look after/care for it day-to-day in their homes. I observed puja and darshan rituals for months. 
My parents aren't a part of QAnon (they aren't really even all that online other than forays into Facebook and a diet of Conservative news sources) but I'm watching as they are slowly being drawn in to a variety of Right-Wing conspiracy theories. 