Androgenous gods (duality overcome/genders merge

• Androgenous gods (duality overcome/genders merge

• Positive images of “mother”

  • Mother India (Bharata Mata), Mother Ganges
  • (Ganga Ma). Ramakrishna and Vivekananda thought God as Mother the highest form.
  • Social/Cultural: women’s status ambiguous. Both erotic/alluring (Parvati), who invents female dance to lure Shiva from his meditation
  • and dangerous Durgha/Kali (creates/destroys/nourishes and starves/challenges notions of purity.

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