The Hill Where the Goddess Has No Face

Go down the stairs at Kamakhya and there is nothing at the bottom.

No murti. No carved face. No dressed and garlanded figure waiting in the dark.

There is a crack in the rock.

It is shaped like a yoni. It is wet - a spring comes up through the stone and never stops. And it is covered with a red cloth.

That is the goddess.

What this is

Of the fifty-one places where tradition says a piece of Sati's scattered body fell, this hill is where her womb came to rest.

Nilachal Hill, above the Brahmaputra in Assam.