Geography/Culture: Hindustani.
Linguistic Note: {Although one might expect Her name to be pronounced $1KTE as a match to Siva, $EV1, in fact the initial gram of Her name is different from the initial gram of Siva's name.} Sanskrit sakti, divine energy as the activating principle of existence. Compare Latin Anima, vital breath; Hebrew Ruah, spirit.
Description: Goddess of cosmic energy; Will of evolution; Female generative principle of active, dynamic potency; She Who gives birth to all force and all form; She Who is the energy by which human beings may ritually come into contact with the divine; She Who, if worshipped by women on one day a year, averts evil for the rest of the year.
To those who worship Sakti, Divine-Energy, all Goddesses are aspects of Her and She is the empowerment of Gods.
To Whom Sacred: yoni, (vulva); sakti (spear or javelin which greatly increased the fighting power of a warrior).
Male Associate: consort, basically Siva.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• The Gnas, Women, (Who are linked with Vac, Creative-Word), may be the origin of the concept of female nature power.
• Kundalini, Latent-Energy, is an aspect of Her.
• She is also called Mahadevi, Great-Goddess, below.
• Her Buddhist equivalent is Prajna, Wisdom, Who is linked with Prajnaparamita, Wisdom-of-theYonder-Shore.
• She is related to Prakrti, Primal-Material-Nature.
• Perhaps a variant of Saci, Source-of-Divine-Power, Who is linked with Indrani, Kindler.
• Transliteration variant Shakti, {though I believe this to be an inaccurate transliteration, see linguistic note above}.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.
Description: Goddess of cosmic energy; Virgin of celestial loveliness; She Who created the Divine-energies of the Trimurti.
All Saktis are aspects of Her.
Invocations, Pleas, Hymns and Other Homage to HER: Mahadevi.
To Whom Sacred: the three colors white (from which She created Sarasvati, She-Who-Flows-Eloquently-Onward), red (from which She created Laksmi, Sign) and black (from which She created Parvati, She-of-the-Mountains).
Male Associates: son, Budha, personification of the planet Mercury. Consort: Mahadeva.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Also called Devi, Goddess.
• Title of Durga, Inaccessible-One, Who is the Sakti, Divine-Energy, of Siva.
• Title of Kali, Black-One.
• Title of Laksmi, Sign.
• Title of Lalita, Spontaneous-One, Who is linked with Maya, Wonderful-Skillful-One.
• Title of Maya, Form-of-the-Formless.
• Title of Parvarti, She-of-the-Mountains, Sakti, Divine-Energy, of Siva.
• Title of Rohini, Red-One.
• Title of Sarasvati, She-Who-Flows-Eloquently-Onward.
• Title of Uma, Gracious-One, Sakti, Divine-Energy, of Siva.
• and the title of others.