#chamunda

[fanfanlemoko]

Chamunda, temple de Kamakhya à Guwahati, dans l'Assam, en Inde

[randomx123]

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[gigi-orosco]

Chamunda

[arjuna-vallabha]

Chamunda, Bengal

[ritish16]

Chamunda Devi

[hinducosmos]

Shri Chamunda Ma Mythological Old Litho Print (via eBay: julieeshop)

[arthistorywitches]

Goddess Cāmuṇḍā  

North India

11th century

“The Goddess is emaciated with protruding eyes, and wears a skull headband and a high bun. She is eight-armed, showing various attributes: three of her hands are preserved, showing a small snake (nāgapāśa) and dagger (kartrī) against her chest in her left hands, and blood cup (kapāla) in her front right hand.”

- British Museum (via Pinterest)

[wordsmithic]

Chamunda: Goddess of war, epidemics of pestilent diseases, famines, and other disasters

The black or red coloured Chamunda wears a garland of severed heads or skulls. She has four, eight, ten or twelve arms, holding a drum, trident, sword, a snake, skull-mace, thunderbolt, a severed head and skull-cup, filled with blood. She stands on a corpse of a man or seated on a defeated demon or corpse. She is adorned by ornaments of bones, skulls, and serpents. She also wears a thread of skulls and headdress formed of piled, matted hair tied with snakes or skull ornaments. Sometimes, a crescent moon is seen on her head.

Her eye sockets are described as burning the world with flames. She is accompanied by evil spirits. She is also shown to be surrounded by skeletons or ghosts and beasts like jackals, who are shown eating the flesh of the corpse which the goddess sits or stands on.