Skull offer

Description

The figure of the skull, in all the cultures and religions of the world, is full of mystical and ancestral meanings but the charm that east has got it, is absolutely unique.
In India, the Mundamala are garlands of human skulls, used as a decoration and characteristic of the fearsome aspects of the Hindu divine mother and the god Shiva.
One of the interpretations of the Mundamala symbolizes the heads of enemies and demons killed by the goddess who wears it in battle. Another interpretation would see it as the victory over time and the fear of death.
In Shiva’s iconography, Mundamala represents the continuous cycles of creation and destruction of human existence.
In buddhism those who carry the Mundamala are the Dharmapala, so called defenders of the Dharma.