YOGINI CULT AND TEMPLES - Dehejia, 1st 1986 HINDU GODDESS SACRED FEMININE MAGIC

YOGINI CULT AND TEMPLES: A TANTRIC TRADITIONBook Details + Condition: National Museum (New Delhi, India). First Edition, 1987. Large hardcover measuring 13" x 10" (extra shipping charges required). 239 pages; illustrated throughout. Very scarce. Vidya Dehejia’s thorough study of the Yogini cult, worship and temples. Yoginis were a minor form of Hindu goddesses, incarnating the sacred feminine force, and belonging to the tantric tradition. They were the female masters of yoga, and symbols of fertility, vegetation, illness, death, yoga and magic. Many believe these yoginis to be the female counterparts of male gods – such as Ganeshani and Narasimhi. The Yogini temples of India are 9th to 12th century roofless hypaethral shrines devoted to the yoginis; they remained largely unknown and unstudied by scholars until the late 20th century. Contents include:- The Many Aspects of Yoginis- The Circle and Cakras of Yoginis- Occult Powers and Cult Practices- Origins and Spread of the Yogini Cult-