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SHAKTI

[noun]

(Devanagari: शक्ति; from Sanskrit shak, “to be able”) meaning sacred force or empowerment - the primordial cosmic energy and represents the dynamic forces which are thought to move through the entire universe in Hinduism. Shakti is the concept, or personification, of divine feminine creative power, sometimes referred to as ‘The Great Divine Mother’ in Hinduism. On the earthly plane, Shakti most actively manifests through female embodiment and creativity/fertility, though it is also present in males in its potential, unmanifest form.

Not only is the Shakti responsible for creation, it is also the agent of all change. Shakti is cosmic existence as well as liberation, its most significant form being the Kundalini Shakti, a mysterious psychospiritual force. It exists in a state of svātantrya, dependence on no-one, being interdependent with the entire universe.

In Shaktism, Shakti is worshipped as the Supreme Being. However, in other Hindu traditions of Shaivism and Vaishnavism, Shakti embodies the active feminine energy Prakriti of Purusha, who is Vishnu in Vaishnavism or Shiva in Shaivism. Vishnu’s female counterpart is called Lakshmi, with Parvati being the female half of Shiva.

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VOLUPTUOUS

[adjective]

1. curvaceous; generously proportioned; buxom; fat in an aesthetically pleasing manner.

2. full of, characterised by, or ministering to indulgence in luxury, pleasure, and sensuous enjoyment.

3. derived from gratification of the senses.

4. directed toward or concerned with sensuous enjoyment or sensual pleasure.

5. sensuously pleasing or delightful.

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INVIGORATE

[verb]

to give vigour to; fill with life and energy; energise.

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DENDROPSYCHE

[noun]

the soul of a tree; the soul within a tree.

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TORMENT

[verb]

1. to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain.

2. to worry or annoy excessively.

3. to throw into commotion; stir up; disturb.

[noun]

4. a state of great bodily or mental suffering; agony; misery.

5. something that causes great bodily or mental pain or suffering.

6. a source of much trouble, worry, or annoyance.

7. an instrument of torture, as the rack or the thumbscrew.

8. the infliction of torture by means of such an instrument or the torture so inflicted.

[Vee Chayakul]

Me looking at the pictures before seeing the word: Huh, that person looks like they’re in torment.

Sees the word.

Me: Oh look, torment!

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LERNAEAN HYDRA

[noun]

an ancient serpent-like chthonic water beast with reptilian traits that possessed many heads (for each head cut off, two more would grow in its place) and poisonous breath. The Hydra of Lerna was killed by Heracles as the second of his Twelve Labours. Its lair was the lake of Lerna in the Argolid and beneath the waters was an entrance to the Underworld, the Hydra being its guardian.

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MULIEBRITY

[noun]

1. womanly nature or qualities; feminine.

2. womanhood.

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CATAGLOTTISM

[noun]

kissing using the tongue; French kissing.

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PARASUICIDE

[noun]

suicide attempts or gestures and self-harm where there is no result in death. It is a non-fatal act in which a person deliberately causes injury to himself or ingests any prescribed or generally recognised therapeutic dose in excess either as a genuine attempt to commit suicide or an attempt to attract attention. Parasuicide is the strongest known indicator for a future successful suicide attempt as approximately half of those who commit suicide have a history of parasuicide. The term was first coined in Edinburgh by Norman Krietman. 

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DIVINE

[adjective]

1. of or pertaining to a god or goddess, especially the Supreme Being.

2. addressed, appropriated, or devoted to a god or goddess; religious; sacred.

3. proceeding from a god or goddess.

4. godlike; characteristic of or befitting a deity.

5. heavenly; celestial.

[noun]

6. a theologian; scholar in religion.

7. a priest or member of the clergy.

8. the Divine; a) a god or goddess. b) the spiritual aspect of humans; the group of attributes and qualities of humankind regarded as godly or godlike.

[verb]

9. to discover or declare (something obscure or in the future) by divination; prophesy.

10. to discover (water, metal, etc.) by means of a divining rod.

11. to perceive by intuition or insight; conjecture.

12. Archaic: to portend.

13. to use or practice divination; prophesy.

14. to have perception by intuition or insight; conjecture.