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dreamer_easy"Devī, by her very nature as the embodiment of power, is both creative and destructive; dangerous, yet necessary for the dynamic maintenance of life. Life is won out of death. Accordingly, her violent, horrific side cannot simply be jettisoned or ignored, nor can it be wholly subdued through the process of domestication - a process that if fully realized would substantially deprive the Goddess of the power necessary for energizing the life-death-rebirth cycle. At the same time, the Goddess' involvement in death and rebirth surrounds her with blood and pollution."
- C. Mackenzie Brown discussing the all-encompassing and therefore paradoxical nature of the divine in The Triumph of the Goddess, 1990
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