At The Feet Of The Goddess

Directed at scholars and advanced students of anthropology, Indian culture, and religion, this detailed study is based on the author's research in Khurdapur, a village in Orissa, and Cholavandan, a town in Tamilnadu. An overview of the concept of the goddess in Hinduism is provided at the outset then Foulston (U. of Wales College, Newport, UK) examines the patterns of worship and sacred buildings in her subject sites. Subsequent chapters consider the variety of goddesses present in both communities, their relation to pan-Indian goddesses, the links they demonstrate between power and impurity, their protective nature, and local ritual practice. Several color plates are included. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

THIS BOOKis a story of a girl who happens to be one of those chosen hybrid gods and goddesses who were given help by the warriors, followers, and successors of Mother God, the Earth's protector. And she mentored by the escort and keeper of the lost souls and even the black shadow. She doesn't have the idea that she will help save our Planet, for she's just a mere kid. Kids at her age should enjoy their childhood and discover their youth's essence. Yet, Anna becames aware of what's happening, and she finds the reality of today's modern world. She accepted that her life would never be as every day as other kids' lives. Anna embraced that this is her destiny. She destines to fight for the Planet's safety and gives importance to the only human life resource, conquering her fears by accepting her gift. Anna's fate and is undergoing series of training given to her without her knowledge. She's not expecting that she can transcend beyond the living and the dead. As a human being, her wisdom is not that rich, which is why she's being taught and informed; thus, she should spread the news that humanity slowly destroys the Earth. Humanmade catastrophes have been occurring. People from different nations are fighting against one another. They're doing their hideous dominance to have the power and money they have always wanted. They create dangerous chemicals that are toxic and polluting the air, the water, and the land. They tended to do whatever they sought to for their benefit. They become greedy, selfish, and monstrous. She's giving the Prophecy from gods and goddesses on Earth about our Planet's future if the people's ways won't change; problems have been occurring. The surroundings start deteriorating. And if they fail, we will all vanish. Earthians conclude, and we'll be going to nothing from where we started. This book contains facts, and some of the events in this book happened, and any resemblance to other stories and people living or dead is purely coincidental. This book is non-fiction based on the author's facts search and experiences.

The foot goddess coloring book is an adult coloring book drawn by and featuring the model herself - Princess Bella Soles! Pretty patterns and doodles are waiting to be filled in behind cartoons of pretty soles, toes, and more!

In a brilliant mix of magic, history, and romance, M. K. Hobson moves her feisty young Witch, Emily Edwards, from the Old West of 1876 to turn-of-the-nineteenth-century New York City, whose polished surfaces conceal as much danger as anything west of the Rockies. Like it or not, Emily has fallen in love with Dreadnought Stanton, a New York Warlock as irresistible as he is insufferable. Newly engaged, she now must brave Dreadnought’s family and the magical elite of the nation’s wealthiest city. Not everyone is pleased with the impending nuptials, especially Emily’s future mother-in-law, a sociopathic socialite. But there are greater challenges still: confining couture, sinister Russian scientists, and a deathless Aztec goddess who dreams of plunging the world into apocalypse. With all they must confront, do Emily and Dreadnought have any hope of a happily-ever-after?

Popular religion in village India is overwhelmingly dominated by goddess worship. Goddesses can be nationally well-known like Durga or Kali, or they can be an obscure deity who is only known in a particular rural locale. The origins of a goddess can be both ancient—with many transitions or amalgamations with other cults having occurred along the way—and very recent. While some have tribal origins, others sprout up overnight due to a vivid dream. Inventing and Reinventing the Goddess: Contemporary Iterations of Hindu Divinities on the Move looks at the nature of how and why goddesses are invented and reinvented historically in India and how social hierarchy, gender differences, and modernity play roles in these emerging religious phenomena.

Every time we create an action in the universe the whole universe rearranges itself to match that action. In this universe each one of us is an essential element that can create change for all. Bring a peaceful influence from the planets when they are in negative locations on your chart by using the Nav-Graha Puja Handbook. In Vedic Sciences, the Sanskrit word Puja means honoring a force more powerful than you for inner gains. This is a ritual designed to bring peace to the planets that are affecting your life in a negative way at this moment. By removing the negative effects of the planets, obstacles affecting finance, health, career, marriage, love life, and family life can be removed. Whenever the planets are in malefic positions in your horoscope, this puja or ritual can be performed to make the planets more positive in their influence on your life at this time. It's a divine method of connecting with the universe.

Coburn provides a fresh and careful translation from the Sanskrit of this fifteen-hundred-year-old text. Drawing on field work and literary evidence, he illuminates the process by which the Devī-Māhātmya has attracted a vast number of commentaries and has become the best known Goddess-text in modern India, deeply embedded in the ritual of Goddess worship (especially in Tantra). Coburn answers the following questions among others: Is this document "scripture?" How is it that this text mediates the presence of the Goddess? What can we make of contemporary emphasis on oral recitation of the text rather than study of its written form? One comes away from Coburn's work with a sense of the historical integrity or wholeness of an extremely important religious development centered on a "text." The interaction between the text and later philosophical and religious developments such as those found in Advaita Vedanta and Tantra is quite illuminating. Relevant here are the issues of the writtenness and orality/aurality of 'scripture,' and the various ways by which a deposit of holy words such as the Devī-Māhātmya becomes effective, powerful, and inspirational in the lives of those who hold it sacred.

Hinduism cannot be understood without the Great Goddess and the goddess-orientated Śākta traditions. The Goddess pervades Hinduism at all levels, from aniconic village deities to high-caste pan-Hindu goddesses to esoteric, tantric goddesses. Nevertheless, the highly influential tantric forms of South Asian goddess worship have only recently begun to draw scholarly attention. This book addresses the increasing interest in the Great Goddess and the tantric traditions of India by exploring the history, doctrine and practices of the Śākta tantric traditions. The highly influential tantric forms of South Asian goddess worship form a major part of what is known as ‘Śāktism’, and is often considered one of the major branches of Hinduism next to Śaivism, Vaiṣṇavism and Smārtism. Śāktism is, however, less clearly defined than the other major branches, and the book looks at the texts of the Śākta traditions that constitute the primary sources for gaining insights into the Śākta religious imaginative, ritual practices and history. It provides an historical exploration of distinctive Indian ways of imagining God as Goddess, and surveys the important origins and developments within Śākta history, practice and doctrine in its diversity. Bringing together contributions from some of the foremost scholars in the field of tantric studies, the book provides a platform for the continued research into Hindu goddesses, yoga, and tantra for those interested in understanding the religion and culture in South Asia.