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Universe, Adorned: Ornament in Culture, Cosmos, and Consciousness

The Emerald

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The Ornaments of the Goddess Chaim - A Symbol of Consciousness

Each ornament corresponds to a particular rapturous state. The ornaments wake up the senses, the feeling body and faculties of cognition. They are bright, flashing gold, iridescent moon-like pearl,. diaphanous, piercing, lustrous, milky white, medicinal. In clatters and rattles, gold, shimmers, anklets sparkle like tiny bells; they reverberate with vibration. And as she nods, her earrings clang with the sound, oom, oomkara, oomKara.

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