Tag: Cultural Anthropology

• February 9, 2021

  Renuka-Yellamma (Part 2)

  The narratives for goddesses in South Asia span from lyrical compositions to philosophical commentaries on the nature and fluidity in form. Renuka, one such popular deity of Western India embodies motherly care, stance of a warrior, and the symbology of water and wilderness in nature. The deity caters to the religion in the elite texts…