The Dark Goddesses PT22: Dhumavati: Hindu Crow Goddess with Patti Negri and Father Sebastiaan

Join us Wednesday November 15th @ 7:30pm PST / 10:30pm EST for The Dark Goddesses PT22: Dhumavati: Hindu Crow Goddess with Patti Negri and Father Sebastiaan
Dhumavati. Goddess of strife, loneliness, unfulfilled desires and inauspicious things. Member of The Ten Mahavidyas. Goddess Dhumavati , One of the Mahavidyas. Devanagari.
While Dhumavati is generally associated with only inauspicious qualities, her thousand-name hymn relates her positive aspects as well as her negative ones. She is often called tender-hearted and a bestower of boons.
Dhumavati's worship is considered ideal for unpaired members of society, such as bachelors, widows, and world renouncers as well as Tantrikas. In her Varanasi temple, however, she transcends her inauspiciousness and acquires the status of a local protective deity, where she is also worshipped by married couples
An author says that she stays even after Shiva (who is Maha-kala) ("Great Time" or "Great Death") disappears, thus she is "the Power of Time", and considered to be beyond time and space. Dhumavati represents ultimate destruction, the smoke that rises after the universe is destroyed.