{"id":19408,"date":"2019-03-01T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=20691"},"modified":"2019-02-27T14:31:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T19:31:55","slug":"she-who-is-all-the-goddess-of-ten-thousand-names-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2019\/03\/01\/she-who-is-all-the-goddess-of-ten-thousand-names-47\/","title":{"rendered":"She Who is All \u2013 The Goddess of Ten Thousand Names"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\nAkhilanda<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n(artwork\nby Pieter Weltevrede)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nAkhilanda\nis the Hindu Goddess of Never Not Broken. Her formal name is\nAkhilandeswari Ma, and is known informally as Khodiyar Ma, a form of\nthe Great Mother Goddess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nIn\nSanskrit, Akhilanda means \u201cnever not\nbroken\u201d and Ishwari is Goddess or female\npower. She is one of India\u2019s oldest\ndepictions of the Goddess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nShe\nis said to be originally a Vedic Goddess, the Vedas being the oldest\nlayer of Sanskrit scripture. She is also known as the Goddess of the\n\u201cagamas\u201d, the\ntexts known as tantra. She has been described as a form of the\nGoddess Parvati and as associated with Goddess Durga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nShe\ncarries a trident and stands upon a\ncrocodile upon a rushing river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Image credit: hinduismtoday.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\u201cEverything\nhappens for my liberation. I choose to become only more love\u201d\n– Divine Feminine Oracle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nShe\nmoves and allows herself to be moved by the motion of the crocodile\nupon the rushing waters of the river. She surrenders herself to the\nmovement. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Image Credit: MEDIUM.COM<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nHer\npower comes from being pulled apart and coming back together again;\nalways broken, so she can never BE broken. She is destroyed (broken)\nand created\/re-created again and again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nAkhilanda\nrepresents where we are broken, our pieces instead of our whole. The\ncrocodile is our fears, our vulnerabilities. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nShe\nteaches us that our power is in our pain and that we have the\nstrength and ability to pull ourselves back together, again and\nagain, after breaking. We re-create and rebuild ourselves over and\nover into whom we wish to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nAkhilandra\nis there to help us transition from one place to another after we are\nhurt, when we feel sadness, when we have suffered loss. She assists\nus to grow, to transform, to heal and mend those broken bits and\npieces. Just as she surrenders to the motion of the crocodile and\nthe waters of the river, so we should surrender to whatever we are\nfeeling, trusting that we will once again be whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

***<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About\nthe Author:<\/strong>\n \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Susan Morgaine<\/strong>\u00a0is a Daughter of the Goddess, Witch, Writer,\u00a0Teacher, Healer,\u00a0and\u00a0Yogini.\u00a0She is a monthly columnist with\u00a0PaganPages.org<\/a>\u00a0Her writings can be found in The Girl God Anthologies,\u00a0\u201cWhatever Works: Feminists of Faith Speak\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cJesus, Mohammed and the Goddess\u201d, as well as Mago Publications\u00a0\u201cShe Rises, Volume 2, and \u201cCelebrating Seasons of the Goddess\u201d. She has also been published in\u00a0Jareeda<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0SageWoman<\/a>\u00a0magazines.\u00a0She is a Certified Women\u2019s Empowerment Coach\/Facilitator through\u00a0She is the author of \u201cMy Name is Isis<\/a>\u201d, one in the series of the \u201cMy Name Is\u2026\u2026\u2026\u201d children\u2019s books published by The Girl God Publications.\u00a0A Woman International, founded by Patricia Lynn Reilly. She has long been involved in Goddess Spirituality and Feminism, teaching classes and workshops, including Priestessing Red Tents within MA and RI. She is entering her 20th year teaching Kundalini Yoga and Meditation, being a Certified instructor through the Kundalini Research Institute, as well as being a Reiki Master. She is a member of the Sisterhood of Avalon. She can be found at\u00a0https:\/\/mysticalshores.wordpress.com\/\u00a0<\/a>and her email is\u00a0MysticalShores@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Name is Isis on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Akhilanda (artwork by Pieter Weltevrede) Akhilanda is the Hindu Goddess of Never Not Broken. Her formal name is Akhilandeswari Ma, and is known informally as Khodiyar Ma, a form of the Great Mother Goddess. In Sanskrit, Akhilanda means \u201cnever not broken\u201d and Ishwari is Goddess or female power. She is one of India\u2019s oldest depictions of the Goddess. She is said to be originally a Vedic Goddess, the Vedas being the oldest layer of Sanskrit scripture. She is also known as the Goddess of the \u201cagamas\u201d, the texts known as tantra. She has been described as a form of the Goddess Parvati and as associated with Goddess Durga. She carries a trident and stands upon a crocodile upon a rushing river. (Image credit: hinduismtoday.com) \u201cEverything happens for my liberation. I choose to become only more love\u201d – Divine Feminine Oracle She moves and allows herself to be moved by the motion of the crocodile upon the rushing waters of the river. She surrenders herself to the movement. (Image Credit: MEDIUM.COM) Her power comes from being pulled apart and coming back together again; always broken, so she can never BE broken. She is destroyed (broken) and created\/re-created again and again. Akhilanda represents where we are broken, our pieces instead of our whole. The crocodile is our fears, our vulnerabilities. She teaches us that our power is in our pain and that we have the strength and ability to pull ourselves back together, again and again, after breaking. We re-create and rebuild ourselves over and over into whom we wish to be. Akhilandra is there to help us transition from one place to another after we are hurt, when we feel sadness, when we have suffered loss. She assists us to grow, to transform, to heal and mend those broken bits and pieces. Just as she surrenders to the motion of the crocodile and the waters of the river, so we should surrender to whatever we are feeling, trusting that we will once again be whole. *** About the Author: Susan Morgaine\u00a0is a Daughter of the Goddess, Witch, Writer,\u00a0Teacher, Healer,\u00a0and\u00a0Yogini.\u00a0She is a monthly columnist with\u00a0PaganPages.org\u00a0Her writings can be found in The Girl God Anthologies,\u00a0\u201cWhatever Works: Feminists of Faith Speak\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cJesus, Mohammed and the Goddess\u201d, as well as Mago Publications\u00a0\u201cShe Rises, Volume 2, and \u201cCelebrating Seasons of the Goddess\u201d. She has also been published in\u00a0Jareeda\u00a0and\u00a0SageWoman\u00a0magazines.\u00a0She is a Certified Women\u2019s Empowerment Coach\/Facilitator through\u00a0She is the author of \u201cMy Name is Isis\u201d, one in the series of the \u201cMy Name Is\u2026\u2026\u2026\u201d children\u2019s books published by The Girl God Publications.\u00a0A Woman International, founded by Patricia Lynn Reilly. She has long been involved in Goddess Spirituality and Feminism, teaching classes and workshops, including Priestessing Red Tents within MA and RI. She is entering her 20th year teaching Kundalini Yoga and Meditation, being a Certified instructor through the Kundalini Research Institute, as well as being a Reiki Master. She is a member of the Sisterhood of Avalon. She can be found at\u00a0https:\/\/mysticalshores.wordpress.com\/\u00a0and her email is\u00a0MysticalShores@gmail.com My Name is Isis on Amazon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}