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Coatlicue statue Coatlicue statue may represent this resurrected creatrix, whose sacrifice gave us light and warmth, in the form of her personified skirt. Snakes coming out of body parts, as we see here, was an Aztec convention for squirting blood. Coatlicue has in fact been decapitated, and her snaky head represents the blood squirting from her severed neck.

Aztec representation?

You can only find her temples in the northern part of India and in Nepal. Chintpurni in Himachal Pradesh, Chhinnamasta Temple in Rajrappa, Durga Temple in Uttar Pradesh, Kamakhya Temple in Jharkhand, Changu Narayan Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal are some of the places where you can find her shrines.

In the shrines and depictions, she is mostly nude with disheveled hair with blood covering her body. She stands over a naked couple, who are said to be Kama Deva and Rati. Rati – the Goddess of sexual desire – and her husband the Kama – the God of love. Chinnamasta is symbolic of life, death, and sex – the three forms of transformation and the three parts of the cycle. While she is not a popular goddess amongst the Hindus, Tantric practitioners do worship her to acquire siddhis and supernatural powers. But, in many places, people worship her as Goddess Kali.

Chinnamasta is the Hindu Goddess of transformation. She is the sixth of the Dasa Mahavidya, the wisdom Goddesses, and is also known as Chhinnamastika or Prachanda Chandika. She is depicted holding her own head, which she has just cut off. She is known as the self-decapitated Goddess and also as Prachanda Chandika. She is a form of Shakti with ferocious power. Chinnamasta actually means, “severed head”, and in Hindu dharma, she is often correlated with fearsome nature. Buddhists believe she is closely related to Chinnamunda, the severe-headed form of Vajrayogini, the Tibetan Buddhist goddess.