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Why the Mother Goddess Is Worshipped as a Pillar, Not an Idol

India, the Mother Goddess, Shakti, is not represented through an anthropomorphic idol at all. Instead she is worshipped as a Stambha, a sacred wooden or stone pillar, often placed upon a Dasa Mahavidya Yantra or another geometric yantra, and sometimes with no yantra at all.

Why the Mother Goddess Is Worshipped as a Pillar, Not an Idol

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India, the Mother Goddess, Shakti, is not represented through an anthropomorphic idol at all.

Instead she is worshipped as a Stambha, a sacred wooden or stone pillar, often placed upon a Dasa Mahavidya Yantra or another geometric yantra, and sometimes with no yantra at all.

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India, the Mother Goddess, Shakti, is not represented through an anthropomorphic idol at all. Instead she is worshipped as a Stambha, a sacred wooden or stone pillar, often placed upon a Dasa Mahavidya Yantra or another geometric yantra, and sometimes with no yantra at all.

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