ABSTRACT
Grace, Rage and Knowledge are functional categories to structure the vastness of the attributes and personages of the goddesses. They perform multiple functions in the mythical narratives, in the visual arts and in the minds of devotees and their daily lives. Consequently, Chapter 2 tries to read them not as distinct personae but as interactive supernatural identities. Both the aspects, distinctionism and non-distinctionism, are the qualities of religious cultures of the region which provide scopes to fi nd one’s own god and at the same time merge one’s denominational faith with the other. To be distinct and yet to merge is to understand how supernatural is taken into cultural psyche. The logic of myth is the structure of undecidability – self-contradictory belief system – which is the dynamism of such South Asian myths, religions and the arts.
