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Indian matriarchies, and still today in certain Kali cults, the menstruating goddess is considered as one<br />

of highest forms of appearance of the feminine principle (Bhattacharyya, 1982, pp. 133, 134). It was<br />

in the earliest times a widespread opinion, taken up again in recent years by radical feminists, that the<br />

entire natural and supernatural knowledge of the goddess was concentrated in the menstrual blood.<br />

Menstruating Dakini<br />

Outside of the gynocentric and tantric cults however, a negative valuation of menstrual blood<br />

predominates, which we know from nearly all patriarchal religions: a menstruating woman is unclean<br />

and extremely dangerous. <strong>The</strong> magic radiation of the blood brings no blessings, rather it has

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