Varahi
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Varahi, a fourteenth-century sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, combines a young mother’s body with a sow’s head and a third eye signifying knowledge. She belonged to seven goddesses linked with Shiva or the mother goddess. Objects in three hands refer to tantric practice: a skull bowl held repellent liquids, the fish implies forbidden food, and the snake suggests the fear binding people to death. Through these rituals, the goddess helped practitioners overcome attachments that prevented liberation and union with the creator.
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This Hindu goddess has the body of a young mother and the head of a female boar, which is the meaning of the Sanskrit word varahi, with the third eye of true knowledge. This sculpture was one of a set of seven goddesses associated with worship of the Hindu god Shiva or the mother goddess. The objects in three of her four hands reference the countercultural tantric Hindu practices of drinking revolting liquids from a bowl made from a skull. The fish implies the consumption of illicit food, and the snake pertains to the noose that keeps one bound in fear that leads to inevitable death. In tantric Hindu rituals, this goddess would aid the practitioners in overcoming their fears that keep them attached to ordinary life in the world, instead of reaching the liberated state of union with the creator.
Clevelandské muzeum umění
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- 1978.70
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- Clevelandské muzeum umění
- Obrázek: Clevelandské muzeum umění — Museum open access
