Item: Marichi (Buddhist Deity) - Odiyana-krama (6 faces, 12 hands)

Oddiyana Krama Marichi. (Tib.: ozer chen ma mar mo).

"Marichi, with a body red in colour, six faces and twelve hands. The main face is red, the two right faces blue and black, the two left faces white and black and a black pig face above. Each has three eyes and bared fangs. The right six of the twelve hands hold, a sword, vishvavajra, one pronged vajra, axe, arrow and pestle. The left six, a wrathful gesture together with a needle, trident, branch of the ashoka [tree], bow, lasso and Brahma's head. Brown hair bristling upwards. Adorned with a garland of human heads and bone ornaments. Wearing a tiger skin as a lower garment. Laughing fiercely [with] Ha Ha and seated in a posture with the left foot extended, subduing the four maras." (Konchog Lhundrub, 1497-1557).

Jeff Watt, 6-2006