Kali Puja, also called Shyama Puja is considered to be one of the largest festivals to worship the goddess Kali, whom people in the Hindu faith revere as an embodiment of ferocity. It mostly takes place in the eastern region, such as in West Bengal, Assam, Tripura and Odisha, almost coinciding with the Diwali celebrations […]Read More
Kalika purana is considered to be one of the more significant Hindu religious texts surrounding goddess kali. The Shakta tradition of Hinduism that worships goddess kali owes to Kalika purana for a lot of its practices. The Kalika purana is also one of the upapuranas and it is said to contain about 9,000 verses that […]Read More
In Dasa Mahavidyas of Shakta tradition, Chinnamasta devi is the sixth Hindu goddess. She is known for her shockingly striking depictions of her decapitated head. Her name derived from chinna meaning severed and masta meaning head, literally translates into the goddess with a severed head. This stark imagery is central to her representation and symbolic […]Read More
Until the development of the Das Mahavidyas or the ten Mahavidyas, male gods were given much importance and were the focal deities of worship and reverence in Hinduism. It was with the origin of the Ten Mahavidyas that femininity and female gods were seen as the ultimate reality and as guidance toward spiritual awakening and […]Read More