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Figure of Hinduism
Devi — the Goddess.
Durga, Kali, Lakshmi, Saraswati: the divine feminine as power itself (shakti) — in the Shakta stream, the supreme reality outright.
Names & titlesDurga, Kali, Parvati, Amba — the Goddess of a thousand names
DomainShakti — power itself
RelationsEvery goddess as her face
Depicted asDurga ten-armed on the lion; Kali dark and garlanded, tongue out, time underfoot
StandingWorshipped as supreme in the Shakta stream
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Where other traditions cast the divine feminine as consort, the Shakta stream inverts the hierarchy: Devi is shakti, the power by which anything happens at all — the gods act only because she moves them. Durga rides to war, Kali wears time itself as a garland; both are her.
From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited
By you this universe is borne, by you this world is created; by you it is protected, and you always consume it at the end.
Devi Mahatmya 1.75The gods addressing the Goddess.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
Taking refuge.
Buddhism · rite
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The yakshis.
Jainism
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The Shechinah — the presence that went into exile.
Judaism
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The image is permitted — and the church fought a civil war to decide it.
Christianity · core tenet
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Khadija — who believed first.
Islam
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Remember the Name.
Sikhism · core tenet
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