MOTHEATER

Home health care. The real story book. 1927.

The ten Mahavidyas Water Color Painting on Paper. Artist: Kailash Raj

Mahavidyas (Great Wisdoms) or Dasha-Mahavidyas are a group of ten aspects of the Divine Mother Durga or Kali herself or Devi in Hinduism. The 10 Mahavidyas are Wisdom Goddesses, who represent a spectrum of feminine divinity, from horrific goddesses at one end, to the gentle at the other.

Shaktas believe, “the one Truth is sensed in ten different facets; the Divine Mother is adored and approached as ten cosmic personalities,” the Dasa-Mahavidya (“ten-Mahavidyas”).

The Mahavidyas are considered Tantric in nature, and are usually identified as:

Kali – The ultimate form of Brahman, “Devourer of Time” (Supreme Deity of Kalikula systems).

Tara – The Goddess as Guide and Protector, or Who Saves. Who offers the ultimate knowledge which gives salvation (also known as Neel Saraswati).

Tripura Sundari (Shodashi) – The Goddess Who is “Beautiful in the Three Worlds” (Supreme Deity of Srikula systems); the “Tantric Parvati” or the “Moksha Mukta”.

Bhuvaneshvari – The Goddess as World Mother, or Whose Body is the Cosmos.

Bhairavi – The Fierce Goddess.

Chhinnamasta – The self-decapitated Goddess.

Dhumavati – The Widow Goddess,or the Goddess of death.

Bagalamukhi – The Goddess Who Paralyzes Enemies

Matangi – the Prime Minister of Lalita (in Srikula systems); the “Tantric Saraswati”.

Kamala – The Lotus Goddess; the “Tantric Lakshmi”.

Hornsey Town Hall, Crouch End

1935

Reginald H. Uren

Image from RIBApix

Window open to Europe   -   Heli Salonen, 1984.

Finnish ,b. 1949 -

Left Bank, Paris

Cover web. The wings of insects. 1918.

Membership recruitment and election posters for the S.D.A.P.  (Dutch socialist party)

‘Vote Red! Chose the candidates of the SDAP’ Albert Hahn sr., 1918 (X) (The laborer is battling capitalism, anarchy, suffering caused by war, famine and exorbitant food prices)

‘Chose the candidates of the SDAP - and bury these two under red votes!’ by Tjerk Bottema, 1922 (X)

‘SDAP - Vote on the list of the Soc. Dem. Lab. Party’ by Albert Hahn jr. , 1920/21 (X) 

‘Towards the New Day! SDAP -List 4- Wibaut’ by Albert Hahn jr. 1935 (X)

‘The Reds are Calling - Strengthen the SDAP” by Meijer Bleekrode, 1930 (X)

‘Shoulder by shoulder in the SDAP’ by Meijer Bleekrode, 1930/31  (X)

‘Disarmament! Women, fight along - support the SDAP’ by Willem Papenhuyzen, 1925 (X)

‘Away with Militarism - Vote SDAP – nr. 1 of the list: P.J. Troelstra J.D.’, unknown artist, 1922 (X)

‘Away with the shackle law – Minister Ruijs regulates the “pulse of the time”’ by L.J. Jordaan, 1920 (X) (The handcuffs read ‘revolution law’)