firemaiden
Kali
Guess what, guess what! I went into the Berlin Bookstore "Adhara Büchertempel" (temple of books) and there hanging on the wall was the original painting of this card, signed in pencil in the left bottom corner by MP. (It wasn't there before, it is a new acquisition)
It is the size of a large poster, and to my surprise, the colours are very much more subtle than those on the printed card. The printed card shows the center "thing" in fiery colours, the original painting shows it in gentle shades of purple and pink, almost pastels. It looks sort of like a water colour, and certainly much more suggestive of the interior of a delicate flower than a ferocious vagina dentata. I notice for the first time the lovers in the upper left corner of the image.
I asked the lovely bookstore owner about the meaning of the image, and why the vagina dentata thing, and she said it is Kali, and Lilith.
So there we have it, this empress is Kali -- a goddess sometimes ferocious?
Guess what, guess what! I went into the Berlin Bookstore "Adhara Büchertempel" (temple of books) and there hanging on the wall was the original painting of this card, signed in pencil in the left bottom corner by MP. (It wasn't there before, it is a new acquisition)
It is the size of a large poster, and to my surprise, the colours are very much more subtle than those on the printed card. The printed card shows the center "thing" in fiery colours, the original painting shows it in gentle shades of purple and pink, almost pastels. It looks sort of like a water colour, and certainly much more suggestive of the interior of a delicate flower than a ferocious vagina dentata. I notice for the first time the lovers in the upper left corner of the image.
I asked the lovely bookstore owner about the meaning of the image, and why the vagina dentata thing, and she said it is Kali, and Lilith.
So there we have it, this empress is Kali -- a goddess sometimes ferocious?