Vishnu — The Preserver, Sustainer of Worlds

Vishnu pervades everything — the name derives from 'vish,' to pervade. He maintains cosmic order (rita) through ten avatars who descend whenever dharma declines. Hex 32 (Duration) is thunder below wind: endurance not through rigidity but through constant, responsive adaptation. This is Vishnu's method exactly — he does not preserve by freezing things in place but by descending into each era's specific crisis. Rama for the age that needed righteous kingship, Krishna for the age that needed divine play, Buddha for the age that needed compassion. Hex 11 (Peace) is the secondary resonance: heaven below earth in willing mutual service, the state Vishnu labors to maintain. The preserver's work is never finished because entropy never rests.

Cross-Tradition Resonances