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38 MANUSHIIn the uproar over the patriarchaland male chauvinist prejudicethat is said to infest India sscriptures like a black plague, a basicfact is lost. No other living religioustradition in the world presents sucha continuous and richly diverserecord from prehistoric times ofworshipping the Divine as was in Hindu Goddesses thatDavid Kinsley provided a synopticview of this beginning from theprehistoric Indus civilization and thepristine Vedic theogony, through theitihasa-purana and tantricpantheon, down to the villagedeities. His work inspired severalinvestigations into this neglectedarea by Hawley, Wulff and how to make sense of atradition that worships a hag, or agoddess who chops off her ownhead and directs the spouting bloodinto the mouths of two yoginis andher own; or one who, seated on acorpse, plucks out a demon stongue; another whose terrifyingform has to be worshipped withpolluted offerings in a cremationground; and yet another whostraddles her consort on a funeralpyre?
No.136 39 Despite being a widow, the hymn invoking Dhumavati makes her the creatrix of dance and enjoyer of erotic activity and liquor. The author is a Kolkatta IAS officer.
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