"As a hand-held attribute several wrathful deities, such as Vajrabhairava and Red Hayagriva, hold a coiling noose of entrails as a symbol of their revelation of the insubstantiability of all phenomena." (Robert Beer- The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols; 165)
"Luminous as the body of the white
goddess of art, great clouds that come to serve
move through wide black skies
to drink white waves that wash perfect
blue sapphires to the shore and, now bearing the form
of a dark goddess with eyes piercing and long,
streaked with red, the goddess brought to life
by the tall mountain of ice, they
gravely return."
(David Shulman translating Ativīarāma Pāṇṭiyar- The Wisdom of Poets: Studies in Tamil, Telugu, and Sanskrit; 6)
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