Hridaya - Heart of Tantras

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Kali 19th - early 20th century. India. Gouache on paper. The goddess walking on water while asleep Vishnu Brahma leaves emerge from the umbilicus. (via Cornette de Saint Cyr Paris)

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Sadhus meeting for a prayer, Vanarassi, India Photo by @rene_castillejos (via Instagram: René Castillejos TRAVEL)

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Shiva and Vishnu as Harihara Hindu Print Kalyan (Hindi magazine) Gita Press, Gorakhpur. (via ebay: vintageindia)

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The Lord Of Soil (Sabdag) Metal. Early 20th century C.E. HimachalPradesh, India.

This is a ritual image of ‘Sabdag’ – the local guardian deity of the mountains, consisting of a large golden plated metallic skull and a detachable trident of iron,depicting blazing flames. The skull represents the ferocious form of Lord Shiva, that is Bhairava. (via The National Museum, New Delhi)

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Shiva-Yantra 19th century. Rajasthan, India. Watercolor on cloth. (via Philadelphia Museum of Art)

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Paintings from a Secret Album Illustrating the Tantric Tibetan Meditation Practice Saravid Vairochana, Primordial Buddha. China. 1700s.  

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Mural of Yamāntaka

Also known as Vajrabhairava, Yamāntaka is the Lord of Death in the Tibetan pantheon

Tsaparang White Temple, Guge, Western Tibet

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Shiva in meditation

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Panchmukhi Hanuman (via ebay: Indian_ash)

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Yogini face detail, Central India

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Shiva, north India

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Twitterbot that produces endless entries in an imaginary daemonological grimoire

The Lesser Bot is a twitterbot that is writing a machine-generated grimoire, complete with summoning runes, which is timely, given that we’re entering the age of demon-haunted computers.

“The Lesser Bot of Solomon offers you endless pages from a text in the style of Ars Goetia and the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum.”

№ 576 Chancellor AGMAHMAL, DEMON of: ‣ mordantly queued litheness ‣ subdivisions

№ 573 Senator SABAZMONUS, DEMON of: ‣ alcoholically positioning cutthroats

№ 571 Councilman BALZILSUM, DEMON of: ‣ presidential ascendancy ‣ whetstones ‣ preventive solos

№ 567 Saint BARETHOS, DEMON of: ‣ riposting footraces

№ 559 Deputy ABTZO, DEMON of: ‣ infected contaminators

№ 565 Saint ABAN, DEMON of: ‣ navigators

http://boingboing.net/2016/06/12/twitterbot-that-produces-endle.html

paging @kadrey

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@enochtopus I feel like this might be your jam. 

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Shiva Lingams in Pashupatinath Temple, Kathmandu (via Instagram: juris_tashi)

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Sadashiva, Pala sculpture from Bengal