Two Goddess Temples in Northern Germany



Photo © 2004 Annette Wilke/The Pluralism Project



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Main icon (murti) of the temple: Shri Kamakshi Devi in the central sanctum (garbhagrha), beautifully dressed and adorned with a crown and nose-ring on the occasion of the 12th day of the annual temple festival in 2004. The black stone icon bears the iconography of the Shrividya goddess Lalita-Tripurasundari with whom Kamakshi Devi is identified: noose, goad, flower-arrows and sugarcane bow. The murti is installed on a shricakra, and another shricakra is engraved in the yoni-shaped vessel at her feet. Whereas exoteric daily rites are performed in front of this main icon, a separate room adjacent to the temple (see plate 11) is reserved for special shricakra rites and homa (the fire sacrifice). Photo: 7.6.2004.