Is this seemly behavior for a Hindu wife?
Standing naked, black skin gleaming, her garland of human heads drips fresh blood on the lily-white corpse of her husband. Her red tongue sticks out nine miles and even dead he’s got a hard-on.
What’s going on here?
According to the commentator Dasgupta, originally the corpse was just a corpse, a heap of corpses, demons slain in cosmic battle. It is the touch of the Mother’s foot that turns the śava, corpse, into Śiva.
Nothing pure or impure. Nothing holy or profane.
Thus it is said: she herself has become everything,
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