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  Naṭarāja performing the Ānanda tāṇḍava — the "Dance of Bliss" . In this icon we are been shown  five functions of the Supreme Being; creation, sustenance, transformation, revealing and concealing. Ring of flames The Dance takes place within a ring of flames which symbolises the cycle of births and deaths, thecycle of universal creation and destruction —projection and withdrawal.  Mulayaka the dwarf of Ignorance The god dances upon the back of the "Dwarf of Ignorance" known as Mulayaka. It is ignorance of our true nature that binds us to cycle of continual becoming and it is wisdom/ enlightenment that releases us. The damaru The hour-glass shaped drum (damaru) — held in the right upper hand symbolises the act of creation. According to Tantric teachings the act of creation takes place through sonic vibration. This primary sound is symbolised by the drum, from which all the sounds of the Sanskrit alphabet originated at the beginning of time. The flame The flame — he