A double-headed axe. So named because the double-headed blades symbolized the vaginal lips (the labia) spread open to reveal the clitoris and the passage into the cervix. The small orb adorning the top of the double-headed axe symbolized the clitoris.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom, authors of the new The Mandarin Tree.
As modern Asian American mystics, we love to work with the heavenly creatures, or what you may know as mystical beings in...