Daily Archives: October 31, 2026

64 Yoginis Meaning, Temples, Tantra & Feminine Shakti The Circle With No Roof: 64 Yoginis and a Woman's Becoming There is a temple in Odisha with no roof, a perfect circle open to the sky. Inside, 64 women carved in black stone dance, laugh, bare their teeth, hold a child, hold a skull. They have…

Is Ucchista Chandalini Only for the Outcaste? The Name Is the Teaching Say the name aloud: Ucchista Chandalini. For many ears the second word lands first. It sounds like a boundary, a goddess kept for those kept outside. Tantra means the opposite. She is called Chandalini not to exclude, but to include what was excluded.…

The Remainder That Remains Divine: Ucchista Ganapati and Sumukhi Devi In the quieter lanes of Tantra, where the rules of clean and unclean begin to melt, two figures sit together in intimate embrace. He is elephant-faced, red as desire, unashamed. She is luminous, seated on his lap, called Sumukhi, the beautiful-faced one. To the orthodox…

Hinglaj Devi: The Red Goddess of the Crown Outwardly, Hinglaj Devi is the presiding deity of the cave shrine on the Hingol river in Balochistan, Pakistan, in the middle of Hingol National Park. In the Puranic story of Sati, this is where her head, more precisely her Brahmarandhra, fell, making it one of the most…