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Dàhēi Fómǔ (大黑佛母) mudra.
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Dàhēi Fómǔ (大黑佛母) mudra.
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दुर्गा - Durga.
Durga is worshipped as a principal aspect of the mother goddess Mahadevi. She is associated with protection, strength, motherhood, destruction, and wars. The word Durga (दुर्गा) literally means "impassable", "invincible", "unassailable". It is related to the word Durg (दुर्ग) which means "fortress, something difficult to defeat or pass".
Her vāhana (mount) is the male lion, what associates her, to a certain extent, with the Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra in vedic astrology which has this animal as its symbol.
Rūha: the Queen of Darkness.
" Rūha is the Arch-demoness, the Queen of Darkness. She is the daughter of “Qin” the Mistress of Darkness. She is the ruler of the third matarta (watch-house), and dwells in first underworld. Rūha is the mother of the King of Darkness, 'Ur, and the mother of the Seven planets, the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac and the Five planets. She is considered as a kind of "fallen wisdom figure” ressembling Sophia in other Gnostic traditions. She fights and suffers and appears in several realms at the same time. Rūha is the leader of the underworld forces and the “entity incorporation powers of darkness which the lightworld had to conquer.”
In Book VI of the Ginza Rba (the book of “Dinanukt") Rūha describes herself as “light and darkness”, “error and truth ”, “destruction and structure” etc., in clear dualist terms. "
[source: The Story of Creation in the Mandaean Holy Book the Ginza Rba - Sabah A ldihisi]
Periyachi (பெரியாச்சி) is a fierce aspect of Parvati in tamil hinduism. She is also known as Periyachi Amman ("mother") and is a protector of newborns, childbirth and pregnancy.
Catherine Deneuve in The Hunger (1983), directed by Tony Scott.
Never forget that Yin - 陰 - the feminine principle of chinese metaphysics, not only represents passivity and cold, but is Sinister in essence. It is a semantically complex word which includes meanings such as hidden, concealed, shade, the Netherworld, negative, cloudy, treacheous, dark, the Moon, gloomy and, of course, sinister. That Sinister Feminine principle may seem gentle...until crossed and its cold cruelty unleashed.
Dàhēi Fómǔ 大黑佛母
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