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| Victorious Goddess The goddess is surrounded at various points of the compass by a variety of emanations. Almost all of these smaller figures have many arms which contribute an element of minor visual agitation in a lesser key. The central figure, with red, green and white rows of her thousand heads and a great halo of blurred hands, makes these smaller figures look quite normal with their six arms. The Tibetan artist utilized here the same size-multiplying device discussed in connection with the Lha-mo painting. In this case the results are not terror but a feeling of the invincibility of the goddess who seems to pervade everything. In their different groups of colors, each of her heads has supernormal capacities. Each of them opens third eyes on the world. In that shell of error-burning flames, each of those many acting hands also contains cosmic eyes. The more the figure of the goddess is observed the more eyes jump forward. They are everywhere: on arms, body and soles of the many feet. They are in motion with the tilting pillar of heads and great striding stance of the feet. Nothing escapes their all-seeing scrutiny. The viewer is convinced of this by the great circles bubbling on the lower fabric. The haphazard smaller designs contribute to this, leading up to a blending with the halo of eyes. The hands move out to the boiling flames and the smaller figures all of whom act in other forms for the Goddess. These connecting shapes all contribute to the idea of the supreme clairvoyance innate in this deity. |
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