Sublime

an immense Śrīcakra (see Figure 2) arises from the great sacrificial fire. The astounded devas watch as this Cakrarāja Ratha grows out of the pit that had consumed so many of their comrades. Ratha is chariot; Cakrarāja is the King of Cakras. It simultaneously emits the brilliance of a million suns and the cooling effect of a million moons. Seated i

Blodenwedd (Blodewedd, Blodeuedd)- The most beautiful and treacherous sun and moon Goddess. Called "White Flower" or "Flowerface."Associated with the white owl, the dawn, primroses, broom, cockle, oak, and meadowsweet.

In her many forms, Devī resides in the Śrīcakra, with the nine enclosures (āvaraṇas) representing nine types of borders around her palace in Śrī Nagara15 in the midst of a forest thick with Kadamba trees, which bear highly fragrant flowers that she favors

Unlike the fierce (Raudra) forms of Devī such as Kāli, Lalitā is playful and sweet. Like a concerned mother, she indulges our petty desires at times, and scolds us at other times for our follies, but at all times she leads us to the highest truths of the path.

Devī is known in numerous forms—sthūla, where she is the radiant goddess with four arms,14 sūkṣma, which is the Śrīvidyā mantra, parā, which is the Śrīcakra, and two other esoteric ones—Kuṇḍalinī and Kāmakalā, both of which are revealed by the guru and in progressive initiations.

As the daughter of the Sun god Ra, she was said to ride with him each day as he pulled the Sun across the sky, but she became even more crucial at night while her father slept, standing guard against his enemy, the serpent Apep.

Daughter of the Dagda, Brighid is another member of the Tuatha de Danann who evolved from a pre-Celtic society, and is believed to have originally been a Sun deity.

the Great Goddess in the form of the sun, who pours into the phenomenal world the energy and light that brought it into being and sustain it, may also become, for those who (as the scriptures say) have yielded all to the fire of her consuming love, at once the messenger and the golden portal of the Perfection of Wisdom.