Fierce Protective Wall Art

Fierce Protective — 6 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Bhadrakali — the fierce form of the Goddess born to slay the demon Darika — is the presiding deity of countless Bhagavati kavus across Kerala, and her myth is enacted in temple rituals and in Mudiyettu, a ritual theatre recognised by UNESCO. In bhitti chitra, Kerala's temple-mural tradition (flourishing roughly 16th–19th century and still painted today), she is shown red-bodied with a flame crown, protruding tongue and skull garland. Durga as Mahishasuramardini — the slayer of the buffalo demon Mahishasura — is among the most beloved forms of the Goddess, and in Kerala she is revered as Bhagavati across countless kavus and temples. Here she is painted in bhitti chitra, Kerala's temple-mural tradition that flourished roughly from the 16th to 19th century and is still painted today: flat panchavarna pigments (red, yellow, green, black, white over an ochre ground), a bold lamp-black outline and the school's elongated lotus-shaped eyes. Mata ni Pachedi means 'the cloth of the Mother Goddess' — a shrine textile of the Vaghri / Devipujak community of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, who, historically barred from temples, painted the Goddess on cloth to create their own portable shrine. Chamunda Mata, the fierce slayer-goddess with a major hill shrine at Chotila, is invoked on these cloths in her victorious form over the buffalo-demon.

Updated 22 Jun 2026