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The Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük (also Çatal Höyük) is a baked-clay, nude female form seated between feline-headed arm-rests. It is generally thought [ 2 ] to depict a corpulent and fertile Mother goddess [ 3 ] in the process of giving birth while seated on her throne, which has two hand rests in the form of feline (lioness, leopard, or ...
The ten-armed Chamunda is seated on a corpse, wearing a necklace of severed heads. The Goddess Ambika (here identified with: Durga or Chandi) leading the Eight Matrikas in Battle Against the Demon Raktabīja, Folio from a Devi Mahatmya - (top row, from the left) Narasimhi, Vaishnavi, Kumari, Maheshvari, Brahmi. (bottom row, from left) Varahi ...
English: Statue of a seated goddess, Bau (Nintinugga), from the Ningal Complex (Giparu, also called E-gig-par, or gig-par-ku) at the city of Ur, Iraq. Isin-Larsa period, c. 1800 BCE. Black diorite. Bau was the consort of the god Ninurta and the goddess of healing. On display the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, Iraq. U 6779B, IM 18663.
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An 18th-century painting from Rajasthan depicts Chhinnamasta as black, as described in the Pranatoshini Tantra legend. She is seated on a copulating couple. Chhinnamasta is often named as the fifth [24] [25] [26] or sixth [1] [27] [20] Mahavidya (Mahavidyas are a group of ten fearsome goddesses from the Hindu esoteric tradition of Tantra), with hymns identifying her as a fierce aspect of Devi ...
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