ANTH 3401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Adi Parashakti, Mother Goddess
7 Feb 2019
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Might be more accurate to say hinduisms rather than hinduism because sects local belief patterns are so different. Goddess of love, fertility, beauty, marriage, children, and devotion. Mother goddess of hinduism, in her gentle and nurturing form. The primordial cosmic energy, physical reality itself, all material existence and all laws governing nature. Sect of hinduism in which the goddesses are worshipped above the male gods. Parashakti, the supreme goddess, is considered the equivalent of brahman. Story of durga, most powerful hindu deity. Born and became an adult while shiva was out hunting. Beheaded by shiva and brought back to life with an elephant head.
