I love the women in all these photos.
The picture I get from the Indian gods, is that the male god is essentially inactive - he is the static principle. He becomes active through his shakti - his female counterpart. Until she is vitalised by the male essence, she also is inactive, although highly potent.
This is why the tantrics picture the gods in sexual union with their female counterparts. This is the act of creation. The male is inert except for his penis, and the female takes in his essence and produces all that you see. The female is the 'power', thus in a raag, what you hear is the female, dancing the essence of the male.
I'm not sure how that plays into us humans, in our sexual differences. On one level it is obvious - procreation. But it seems to me that human females have a male part as much as males have a female part, and thus we can act as a dynamic unit individually.
Nonetheless, there is still a need for males and females to exchange their essences, even in creative acts in the world (ie beyond childbirth). It happens here in Soma. But it is critical that each person, of a particular sex, recognises the vital necessity of this exchange. We can't all be male or female, and neither should we demand that of others.
We have to acknowledge the femininity is different from the masculinity. And we have to encourage each to be its essence as well as strive for inner balance. We have to allow the other sex to be itself and thus to enter into us, and be a catalyst for creativity in our own lives.
