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Hindu (Shakta) Sites
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Sites significant specifically to Shakta Hinduism, the tradition centred on worship of the Goddess in her many forms, distinguished within the broader Hindu sacred site material by that particular theological focus. Sacred sites are grouped by tradition at a fine grain here, so a heading can be narrow without that saying anything about the tradition's own reach.
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What Defines This GroupingSites of the worship of the Goddess, above all the shakta pithas, places sanctified in myth by the fall of a part of the Goddess's body. The number of pithas is not fixed: the lists give four, eighteen, fifty-one or one hundred and eight, and the same place is claimed by more than one list, so no closed set can honestly be stated. 2 Learn More
Hindu Shakta sacred sites
This small group gathers a sacred site of the Shakta tradition of Hinduism, the worship of the Goddess (Devi, Shakti), whose great pilgrimage centres include the shakta pithas, places sanctified in myth by the fall of the Goddess's body.
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