12/21/2023
Durga- The most Powerful Female Energy
It is interesting to see the two images of Divine powers from India and greek. One is Dionisio from greek and another from India The great Goddess Durga. Both rides tiger. Dionisio is the Olympian god of w**e, pleasure and festivity and wild frenzy. His attributes are a drinking w**e cup, a pine cone tipped with staff and a crown of ivy.
In Indian religion Goddess Durga sitting astride a tiger, have many forms and known as Kali, Bhagavati, Bhavani, Ambika, Lalita, Gauri, kandilini, Java and Rajashwari.
Durga means unattainable. She was born from the energies of the male divinities when the gods lost battle with the asuras. All the energies of the gods united in the form of the Goddess. She is adorned with auspicious weapons and ornaments and blazing with thousands of suns. She is the personification of Cosmic energy. She is holding sward, trishul , a cup and shield. The artist is summing up the moment of the wrath of the Goddess when ‘’she lifted to her lips, serenely a bowl filled with the inebriating invigorating liquor of the divine life force and when she sapped the matchless drink.”
Perhaps the artist here tried to see how Durga can kill the evils.
