Incarnation

CRITICAL: NEVER ଅବତାର. Also guard against a subtler, Odisha-specific false-friend: Nabakalebara, the periodic ritual at Puri (roughly every 12-19 years) in which Jagannath’s sacred essence is ritually transferred into newly-carved wooden images. This is a very concrete, literal image of divine ‘renewal of body’ that is precisely the opposite of Christ’s incarnation — one eternal Son, permanently and uniquely taking human nature once, never repeated or replaced.