Behold, the devi is leaving! The mountain daughter returns to her journey. Durga absorbs her avatars: Shailaputri and Brahmacharini, Chandraghanta and Kushmanda, Skandamata and Katyayani, Kaalaratri and Mahagauri and Siddhidatri,…

When the battle is won, the demon vanquished, the blood drunk down and washed away the devi in the lotus displays magic powers: to grow infinitely large or vanishingly small,…

After the violence of battle and the finality of victory there is peace. Skin soaked with blood Mahagauri goes to the river to wash herself clean. She emerges covered with…

When the blood of the demon falls to the ground demons spring from each drop. Innumerable, they threaten to overwhelm the world. Black as the infinite night Kaalaratri comes. She…

The wisest sages know sometimes you have no choice. In this moment to surrender is to die to run is to die to fail is to die. To survive means…

The lion mount carries the goddess gently. Other fierce devis bear sword, mace and noose but the weapon Skandamata brings is her son, Skanda, Murrugan, Kartikeya, his six heads spreading…

In the darkness where there was nothing Kushmanda’s smile lit the fire of life, the little cosmic egg of the universe. She is the power in the sun, she is…

She comes on a tiger, brilliant as the moon, Chandraghanta, radiant with rage, sounding the terrible roar of her bell. Each ring destroys the thoughts that obsess us the fears…

She comes quietly, serene in her focus, Charini, the female practitioner, Bramani, devoted to the knowledge of the cosmos, counting the beads, fixed on meditation, bearing the holy water which…

Look, Shailaputri is returning! Come see, the daughter has arrived. Riding to the mountain on a snow-white bull carrying a weapon and a flower in her hands. How joyful is…