Putana

The demoness who offered her poisoned breast to the infant Krishna, only to have her very life-force sucked dry by the god she sought to destroy. She represents the transformation of malice into liberation, for by the touch of the divine, even her murderous intent was purified into a motherly salvation. Can evil be redeemed through the sheer intensity of its contact with the light, or is every monster merely a saint in reverse? She is the guardian of the threshold between the demonic and the divine, a warning that the soul’s hunger can be its own undoing.