Chhinnamasta
The self-decapitated goddess of sacrificeThe most shocking image in Hindu iconography, and one of the most precise. Chhinnamasta holds her own severed head and drinks the blood from her own neck, standing on a couple in union. The horror is a diagram of self-transcendence.
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Guides and journal
- Chhinnamasta: The Goddess Who Cut Off Her Own Head Treatise
She is Chhinnamasta , "she whose head is severed," the sixth Mahavidya.