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- Baozhi with an internal Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva emerging as he reaches enlightenment, Heian Period (from 794 to 1185). - Paprika, Satoshi Kon, 2006.

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" The un-people, the anti-tribe, humanity’s sack unpicked and sewn together again with the moon inside. "

Nightbreed - 1990, directed by Clive Barker, based on his novella Cabal.

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The Vulture is the vāhana ( वाहन, mount) of Ketu – केतु. Its association with Ketu is easy to understand, as this scavenger bird of prey eats everything, even bones, just like Ketu on the spiritual and psychic planes, whose dissolution role is to sinisterly destroy all our attachments.

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Dàhēi Fómǔ (大黑佛母) mudra.

[artist unknown]

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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.

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Yama (यम, lit. "Twin") is the Hindu god of Death and Justice. According to the Rig Veda, Yami is the twin sister of Yama. Their mother is Saranyu (who is the daughter of Tvashta, the artisan God) and their father is Vivasvat (associated with the Sun). In Vedic astrology, Yama is the deity of the Bharani nakshatra (Lunar Mansion. Indian zodiac: 13° 20 - 26°40 Aries, Western zodiac 7°06 - 20°26 Taurus ), ruled by the planet Shukra (Venus). Bharani (The Star of Restraint) is the nakshatra of death and rebirth. Its Shakti (Power) is the Apabharani Shakti : The Power to "Take Things Away and Move On or Power to Cleanse and Remove Impurities".

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Rāvaṇa (रावण), Demon-King of the Rākshasa (demons) of the island of Lanka. He is also depicted as the author of the Ravana Samhita, a book on Hindu astrology.

[Painting, Circa 1700, Tamil Nadu, India]

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In written chinese, the character 魔 (mó) can mean : Demon, Devil, Fiend, wicked force, magic.

It is made of two components : - 麻 Hemp, Cannabis and - 鬼 Evil spirit So, a Demon is literally an « Evil spirit of the cannabis ».

The character 魔 was originally used to translate the sanskrit word मार (Māra) when the first buddhist missionaries came to China from India. In buddhism, Māra is the malignant Demon King who tries to stop Siddartha Gautama from achieving enlightenment by tempting him with visions and illusions. Māra is the dreaded Lord of Illusions. The reason for this translation is that the ancient chinese medicine was well aware of the psychoactives effects of the cannabis and its entheogenic properties, and therefore the link with the illusions of Māra is then simple and easy to understand.