Nilachal Hill is a sacred
location (tirtha) overlooking the Brahmaputra River, some six miles outside
Guwahati in the contemporary state of Assam.
Nilachal Hill is famous for its temple dedicated to the
goddess Kamakhya, one of India's most powerful goddesses.
This is one of the Shakti Pithas, a network of
Goddess-sanctuary places that stretches throughout the Indian subcontinent.
Each Shakti Pitha commemorates the location where a piece of
the goddess Sati's severed body fell to earth and took on the shape of a new
goddess.
Sati's vulva is reported to have fallen to earth at the Kamakhya
temple; the goddess's image is a natural gap in the rock around which the
temple has been erected.
Kamakhya is particularly powerful since it comes from the
most sexually stimulated portion of the female anatomy.
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