Nine Nights of the Goddess

• Verfasst von: Sil, Narasingha Prosad [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Nine Nights of the Goddess
• Titelzusatz: The Navarātri Festival of South Asia, Caleb Simmons, Moumita Sen, & Hillary Rodrigues (Eds.)
• Jahr: 2018
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Nidān
• Ort Quelle: Durban : Univ., 1989
• Jahr Quelle: 2018
• Band/Heft Quelle: 3(2018), 2, Seite 80-84
• ISSN Quelle: 2414-8636
• DOI: doi:10.58125/nidan.2018.2
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1839604913
• K10plus-PPN: CATS / Abt. Südasien
• Bibliothek/Idn: SA / m4344923022
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Abstract

The anthology titled Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navarātri Festival of South Asia is an anthropological-sociological, that is partly social-scientific and partly theological, analysis. The fifteen densely and expertly written accounts of this popular pan-Indian as well as Nepalese ritual of the Great Goddess [Devī], the anthropomorphic representation of the cosmic energy, the redoubtable Śakti under such popular names as Cāmuṇḍā, Kālī, or Durgā (see more nomenclature of this deity in ch. 2, pp. 54-55), provide a comprehensive rendition of the mythological lurid lore of the nine nights of battle between a warrior devī representing all that is beneficent, munificent, and magnificent and a powerful shape-shifting titan [asura] in the guise of a gigantic buffalo [mahiṣa], who had been terrorizing the gods after having conquered their habitation, Svargaloka [Heaven] and taken over the rights and rules of the incumbent Devarāja (Divine King) Indra.