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Sunday 25 August 2019

Chinnamasta


Chinnamasta is a Hindu goddess, who represents both death and life. She's one of the ten Mahavidya goddesses, who are aspects of the Great Goddess, or Supreme Being goddess, or the Adi Parashakti. The ten goddesses are Kali, Tara, Tripura Sundari, Bhuvaneshvari, Bhairavi, Chinnamasta, Dhumavati, Bagalamukhi, Matangi and Lakshmi.
Now Chinnamasta is the most strange looking of the goddesses, as she is depicted as red as an hibiscus flower and she has four arms. Shes headless and carries her decapitated head, with fountains of blood gushing from the stump, and female beings drinking that blood. She is said to be a goddess of contradictions, a life giver and a killer, self sacrifice, food giver and of sexuality. She's one of the deities considered important in Tantra.
She cut off her own head to please Jaya and Vijaya, the gate keepers of Vishnu. Chinnamasta carries her own decapitated head, which itself has three bright fiery eyes. She wears skulls like jewellery and rides a vicious lion.
There are many different versions of Chinnamasta. Some say she was part of a triad with Kali and Tara. In a different story, she was bathing and became aroused, then turned black. Her female attendants, or gate keepers, Jaya and Vijaya, were very hungry. Out of pity for them, she allowed them to drink her blood when she chopped her head off.

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