"A wake
Shake the dreams from your hair
My pretty child, my sweet one
Choose the day, & the sign of your day,
1st thing you see.
The Day's Divinity"

UNDERSTANDING JIM MORRISON AND THE MOTHER GODDESSES

"I touched her thigh and death smiled......"
                                                                   - Jim Morrison

BHAVATARINI ( REDEEMER OF THE UNIVERSE)

The Hindu Goddess Kali is also referred as the Primeval Feminine deity representing Power, Death, Redemption and Catharsis. All Devouring, She is the Ultimate salvager of the cosmic creation and is often attributed as The Goddess of Death And Destruction. As the consort of Shiva ( The Hindu God of Redemption) she is the embodiment of Time or Cyclic Change which can confer immense control and power over primordial matter emerging as the invincible and prime deity of destruction and authority, she is also viewed as the Divine Mother, benefactor of mankind as her beloved  children. She is also attributed as Adi Shakti or Fundamental Feminine  Power  and Para Pakriti or beyond nature. She is the consort of Shiva and the primeval shakti (source of the Origin of the Cosmos) and is the bearer of all creativity, inspiration, Knowledge, arts and wisdom.

NEW AGE NEO-PAGANISM

Jim Morrison silently in his poems have referred to her as the Mysterious Girl of The Night an indirect  reference to one of her names as kalaratri or the dark night can be a Cosmic Inspiration for Morrison's The American Night as Goddess kali is the Bestower of the Creative consciousness. Jim's poetic lines surely gives references of a Divine intervention.

"Always A Playground Instructor,
never a killer. Always a bridesmaid
on the verge of fame, or over,..........

She's trying to rise........

Come here
I love you..
Peace on earth
Will you die for me
eat me
this way
the end
-I'm surprised you could get it up.
He whips her lightly, sardonically
W/belt.
-Haven't I been thru enough? She asks

The dark girl begins to bleed.
It's Catholic heaven. I have an
Ancient Indian Crucifix around
My neck. My chest is hard
&brown. Lying on stained &
Wretched sheets w/a bleeding Virgin.
We could plan a murder, or
Start a religion."
                                         

THE MAHAVIDYAS (WISDOM GODDESSES)


The Mahavidyas refers to the fore bearer of the Great Wisdom and is derived from the sanskrit word Maha-Great, Vidya-Wisdom, Knowledge,revelation or divine feminine manifestation . The Ten Mahavidyas of Hinduism are often referred as the Ten fierce Tantric goddesses, as the embodiment of The Divine Mother in ten different aspects or moods of violence to benevolence. The ten respective Goddesses are representative of the Cosmic Feminine Powers or Shaktis (Sanskrit synonym Power or Light) and are responsible for the cyclic change, redemption and purification of the cosmos. The emergence of the Mahavidyas was a pivotal turn in Shaktism as it incorporated the Bhakti element in Shaktism that reached its peak in 1700C.E. it first appeared as a Theistic movement with the Feminine Mother Goddess as the Supreme Primeval deity around 6th century C.E. post Puranic age, epitomized by texts Devi Bhagwata Purana specifically in its Seventh Skandha (the last 9 chapters 31-40)also known as Devi Gita a prime holy text among Shaktas.

As the Shaktas believed - "the one Truth is sensed in ten different facets; the Divine Mother is adored and approached as ten cosmic personalities, the Dasa Mahavidyas or the Ten Mahavidyas". The Goddesses ten embodiments are identified as

1. Kali- the Supreme Primeval Mother Goddess or the Divine Mother herself.(the prime deity in Kalikula systems)

2.Tara- the Goddess of redemption, the Saviour or the Purger, she is also referred to the Goddess of Ultimate Wisdom or Salvation (Neel Sarawati)

3. Tripura Sundari ( Shodashi) - the Beautiful in the three worlds, the bestow of happiness and strength.(the supreme deity in the Srikula system also referred as Tantric Parvati or Moksha Mukta.

4. Bhuvaneshwari- the Goddess of Cosmic knowlege.

5. Bhairavi- the awe-inspiring fear dispelling consort of Bhairava  an aspect of Lord Shiva, is also known as Shubhamkari or The Good Mother, Baala or Tripura Bhairavi.

6. Chhinnamasta- the self- decapitated Goddess of Self-control.

7. Dhumavati - the Widow or the Goddess of Death.

8. Bagalamukhi- the Fierce goddess of invincible authority or the Goddess of Victory.

9.  Matangi- the prime deity of Lalita in the Srikula system.

10. Kamala- the Lotus Goddess or Tantric embodiment of Goddess Lakshmi.

The Mahabhagwata Purana and the Brhaddharma Purana list Tripura Sindari as Goddess Shodashi or Sodasi, her another name. The Guhyatiguyha Tantra refers to the Ten Mahavidyas as the source of The Ten Incarnations (Avatars) of Vishnu and are worshipped as the Divine Embodiment s of The Universal Mother.

"Mana Man"

He gets them into the dark hour
By playing singing stories hypnosis
Wilderness                           the island
Led out of bondage            (back there)
Viciously peeling fruit

Disguised as Pplayers
Command Performance

See-thru village
Old hot forest of cars

Cruel ambience
Leopard snake dance

Swift lions of doubt
Crouch in the window
& wait
for her to come.........."

                                      - Jim Morrison.





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