This
malevolent
Red
Dakini has a red
complexion, a ‘third
eye’ or
urna
in the middle of the forehead, and
wears a necklace of
human skulls, as well as a crown decorated with five
human crania. She also carries a staff topped with a
human skull and two severed heads, one blue ‒the other
green. She
feeds on human flesh and drinks from a
kapala, i.e. a
cup made from a human skull, and filled with blood (fig.). Here she is surrounded by a
decorative frame
of red
flames (fig.),
while her eyebrows are also in the form of flames.
|