The Yoni of Kamakhya: The Intersection of Power and Gender in its Mythology
The mythology of the yoni of Sati was introduced in the early medieval Kalikapurana (ninth-eleventh century ce), a sakta text that linked the sexual symbol of the Goddess to the Kamakhya-pitha in Assam. This article will analyse the medieval Puranas and Tantras compiled in northeastern India—focusin...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Equinox
2019
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Religions of South Asia
Jahr: 2019, Band: 13, Heft: 3, Seiten: 317–347 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Satī, Göttin
/ Kālikā-purāṇa
/ Yoni
/ Kult
/ Kāmākhyā-Tempel (Gauhati)
/ Mythos
/ Geschlechterrolle
/ Macht
/ Geschichte 800-1100
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion BK Hinduismus, Jainismus, Sikhismus |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Śakti
B Tantra B pansexualism B Goddess B Kaula B Butler B Foucault |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The mythology of the yoni of Sati was introduced in the early medieval Kalikapurana (ninth-eleventh century ce), a sakta text that linked the sexual symbol of the Goddess to the Kamakhya-pitha in Assam. This article will analyse the medieval Puranas and Tantras compiled in northeastern India—focusing on their mythological accounts of the cosmogony of the yoni pitha—in order to outline a historical evolution of the yoni symbol through the Middle Ages. Combining leftist Freudian, post-structuralist and post-gender theories with religious studies, the yoni will be considered both as a source of power and as a battlefield of sex-gender identity. In conclusion, this article will challenge the idea of a static yoni but will underline a sex-gender evolution of its identity, which encompasses and transcends both male and female powers. |
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| ISSN: | 1751-2697 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Religions of South Asia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/rosa.19013 |