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In the Vaishnava tradition, the divine feminine energy (shakti) implies a divine source of energy of the masculine aspect of God, "Sita relates to Rama; Lakshmi belongs to Narayana; Radha has Her Krishna." The female, in these divine pairs, is viewed as the source of energy and essence of the male form.
There are some churches (see below) who teach that the Holy Spirit is feminine based on the fact that both feminine nouns and verbs, as well as feminine analogies, are thought to be used by the Bible to describe the Spirit of God in passages such as Genesis 1:1-2, Genesis 2:7, Deut. 32:11-12, Proverbs 1:20, Matthew 11:19, Luke 3:22, and John 3:5-6.
The all-pervasive nature of Brahman gave rise to the belief that both human and divine, are in essence similar. This led to the concept of a connecting factor between the absolute and human, called as Atman. At this time, unsurprisingly there was no emphasis on the divine feminine as Brahman is considered being neither male or female. [17]
Though often referred to with gendered pronouns, many Abrahamic denominations use "divine gender" primarily as an analogy to better relate to the concept of God, with no sexual connotation. In Christian traditions with the concept of the Trinity, Jesus, who is male, is believed to be the physical manifestation of the pre-existent God the Son.
It revolves around Goddess worship and the veneration for the divine feminine, and may include a focus on women or on one or more understandings of gender or femininity. [ 2 ] The Goddess movement is a widespread non-centralized trend in modern Paganism , and it therefore has no centralized tenets of belief. [ 8 ]
While shekhinah is a feminine word in Hebrew, it primarily seemed to be featured in masculine or androgynous contexts referring to a divine manifestation of the presence of God, based especially on readings of the Talmud. [15] [16] [17] Contemporary interpretations of the term shekhinah commonly see it as the divine feminine principle in ...
Deva is masculine, and the related feminine equivalent is devi. [4] Monier-Williams translates it as 'heavenly, divine, terrestrial things of high excellence, exalted, shining ones'. [5] [6] Etymologically, a cognate of devi is Latin dea. [7] When capitalised, Devi maata refers to the mother goddess in Hinduism. [8] Deva is short for devatā ...
Shaktism's focus on the Divine Female does not imply a rejection of the male. It rejects masculine-feminine, male-female, soul-body, transcendent-immanent dualism, considering nature as divine. Devi is considered to be the cosmos itself – she is the embodiment of energy, matter and soul, the motivating force behind all action and existence in ...