The Parvati Page Is Up!

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Namaste to All:

 

This is just a heads up, that I've added my long-promised PARVATI

presentation to the homepage. I figured it was appropriate, while

She's still our active Goddess of the Week. Here's the link:

 

http://shaktisadhana.50megs.com/parvati.html

 

In other homepage news: Our longtime friend and supporter Dashiki

Djibouti -- a true and knowledgeable devotee of the Mahavidya

Kamala, "the Tantric Lakshmi" -- has contributed a fantastic Kamala

page, which I'll link to the site within the next day or so. I'm

waiting on an original painting of Kamala by Dashiki himself.

 

Also on the Mahavidya Menu:

 

1. KALI - Yeshe_O and I finished going through the copy and art over

the weekend, but now she's gone missing. I think she's down sick, and

we certainly all send our prayers for her prompt recovery.

 

2. TARA - Nora and Dakinic_Monk are collaborating on something to

salue this essential "link goddess" between Tantric Hinduism and

Tantric Buddhism. Expect Nora to tackle the fascinating Kwan Yin

connection as well.

 

3. TRIPURASUNDARI - I'm agitating for our good friend Om Nagarajan to

prepare this one.

 

4. BHUVANESWARI - STILL LOOKING FOR THE RIGHT SHAKTA!!!

 

5. CHINNAMASTA - Hoping for OmPrem to do this one; he has posted some

amazing material on Her connection with Hatha Yoga.

 

6. BHAIRAVI - STILL LOOKING FOR THE RIGHT SHAKTA!!!

 

7. DHUMAVATI - I'm thinking of doing this page as a "Shakti Sadhana"

group effort. There are lots of great posts and discussions in the

archives, which I'll probably compile as text.

 

8. BAGALAMUKHI - This one will feature the work of our once (and

future, I hope!) member, Sankarrukku. Sankarrukku left to start his

own , the excellent "Shaktha Family." But before he left,

he contributed some fine ruminations on Bagala; so I'll use those and

link up to his new group and homepage from there.

 

9. MATANGI - I've already posted Her page, and will continue to

polish and improve it.

 

10. KAMALA - As I mentioned, DD just contributed this one, and it

will go up this week with any luck.

 

At some point soon, many of our current main-page links will begin to

disappear. A new "Ten Mahavidyas" page will contain sublinks to al of

the 10 goddess forms above. "Mahishasura Mardini" will probably be

subsumed into a link off the main "Durga" page -- and so on.

 

My next homepage project -- probably for posting by the end of the

month -- will be an overarching page entitled "MahaDevi: The Great

Goddess." It will spell out the basic tenets of "pure" Shaktism, and

link off to the Parvati, Lakshmi and Saraswati pages (those last two

will be done by Nora this month), with cross-links to the Kali and

Lalitha pages. It will also feature an introduction to the great Devi

Bhagavata Purana, just as the "Mahisasura Mardini" page features

introductory materials on the Devi Mahatmayam.

 

In the meantime, we've just *got* to keep on reformating worthy old

Group posts and compiling them on the "Articles" page. ANY

VOLUNTEERS??!! ;-) Thanks in advance, brave souls!

 

Aum Maatangyai Namahe