Close-up: main murti Sri Navacakti Nayaki, adorned with the red marks and ornaments of a married women, and a large trident (trishula) on which a cooling lemon is pierced. The priest had the metal icon made in South India based on a poster of the goddess Mariyamman of Samayapuram (Tamil Nadu, South India). Matching the model on the poster found on the rear wall facing the altar, Sri Navacakti Nayaki has a flaming crown and a snake hood above her head, eight hands, and three severed heads beneath her feet, which are covered by the silken dress. The "weapons" in her hands are drum (damaru), lotus, trident, dagger and noose, goat, bell, and blood vessel (kapala) - or rather: a vessel of kunkuma (vermilion) as the priest holds. Both the priest and the regular temple visitors point out that the metal murti is not the (fearsome) Mariyamman (sometimes found in a group of nine goddesses known as Navashakti/Navacakti), but instead the Great Goddess Navacakti Nayaki who incorporates all gods, both male and female. The two yantras at her feet symbolize Great Goddess features, too: there is a shricakra engraved on a copper plate (representing the female Great Goddess, according to the priest) and a three-dimensional shricakra-like figure which he calls "yantra-ketu" or "mahashakti-yantra" (representing Shiva at the top and Shakti at the bottom). The three-dimensional symbol is worshipped with red vermilion, but no proper shricakra rites (avarana-puju) are performed, in contrast to the Kamadchi temple of Hamm-Uentrop. The pujas include Tantric seed syllables and Sanskrit litanies of thousand or one hundred and eight names, taken from a booklet of the Shringeri Shankaracarya. Photo: 5.1.2003.