Geography/Culture: Hindustani: Burma and Southern Buddhists.
Description: Primordia Mother Goddess of the universe; Great goddess of supernatural powers; Substance of the world dream; Energy of the continuously transforming transitoriness of life; Grand Illusionist; Magnificent dance of multiplicity which hides from our senses the essential identity of all; She Who is the constant movement of the universe pervasive to the atomic level; She Who weaves the mesh through which we may percieve the ultimate reality of existence; Womb of unbounded space; She without Whom there is no life.
To Whom Sacred: {atoms; dreams}.
Male Associates: Sometimes Visnu, Pervader, is called Her consort, or She is considered his Feminine Principle. In Her mortal incarnation as Queen Maya, Her son is the Buddha, (Enlightened-One) Sakyamuni, Sage-of-the-Sakyas.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• She is contrasted with Kundalini, Latent-Energy.
• Perhaps also known as Lalita, Spontaneous-One, below.
• Title: Mahadevi, Supremely-Great-Goddess, Who is linked with Sakti, Divine-Energy.
• Also called Mahamaya, Great-Skillful-One, Who is linked with Urmya, ----.
• Transliteration variant: Maja.
• She is also called Mayadevi, Wonderfully-Skillful-Goddess.
• And also called Mayavati, Deciever.
• She is Prakrti, Primal-Material-Nature, as perceived in consciousness.
• Rati, Delight-Giver, (qv), is also called Mayavati, Deveiver, suggesting an identification between Rati, Delight-Giver, and Maya, Form-of-the-Formless.
• In Tibet Maya is known as sGrol-Ma, ----, or Tara, Star.
• Tara, Star, (as the second transformation of the Mahavidyas, Those-of-Great-Knowledge), is also called a Goddess of playfulness.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.
Description: Great Virgin Goddess of artistic playfulness and spontaneous creativity; Divine essence of the Universe; She Whose form is the universe; Eternal-One embracing all women; Entrancer of the world; Personification of lila.
To Whom Sacred: lila, 'play', (or 'display'), of ever-moving forces and energies like the play of water in a fountain.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Lalita is also called Mahadevi, Great-Goddess, (Who is linked with Sakti, Divine-Energy.
• She is the first of the Mahavidyas, Those-of-Great-Knowledge, Who are linked with Mahavidya, She-of-Great-Knowledge.