Chinnamasta

The self-decapitated goddess who stands upon a copulating couple, drinking the blood that spurts from her own severed neck. She is the ultimate paradox of life through death, the terrifying realization that to nourish the world, one must sacrifice the self. Why do we fear the blade when it is the only thing that can liberate the spirit from the cage of the head? She is the most radical form of the feminine, the mistress of the life-force in its most raw and self-consuming state.