#dakini

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, Cambodia, Angkor, 11th century A Dakini c. 1100 An extremely rare bronze of a tantric Buddhist deity depicts the trampling of the personifications the of the afflictions that keep beings cycling around the world of samsara, moving from one unhappy birth, death, and rebirth to another. This female deity appears to hold a skull cup in her left hand, with a mace in the crook of her elbow, and she grasps an unclear object that may be a flaying knife in her upraised right hand.

[trulynobodyofconsequence]

[balkanparamo]

Dakini

[beautifulbabes777]

Dakini 🇺🇸🇮🇳

[dakiniye]

[ksjanes]

In her book Wisdom Rising, Lama Tsultrim states:

The dakini is a messenger of spaciousness and a force of truth, presiding over the funeral of self-deception. Wherever we cling, she cuts; whatever we think we can hide, even from ourselves, she reveals. The dakini traditionally appears during transitions: moments between worlds, between life and death, in visions between sleep and waking, in cemeteries and charnel grounds.

[zanybasementcowboy]

[majestativa]

The Great Mother in Her many aspects—maiden, raging warrior, benevolent mother, death-dealing and all-wise crone, unknowable and ultimate wyrd—is now powerfully reemerging and rising again in human consciousness as we approach the twenty-first century. Isis, Mawu-Lisa, Demeter, Gaia, Shakti, Dakinis, Shekhinah, Astarte, Ishtar, Rhea, Freya, Nerthus, Brigid, Danu—call Her what you may—has been with us from the beginning and awaits us now. [...] She germinates life within Her dark womb.

◈ MONICA SJÖÖ & BARBARA MOR — The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth, (1987)