The Goddess of Do-A-lot

I have a staff assistant at school who is from India and is a practicing Hindi. She is beautiful, very thin,a vegetarian, and a very smart young lady with the most gorgeous hair past her rump. She TA'd for me last year and we have become very close. I share my religion, and she shares hers. This year for the winter break she went to India for three weeks to visit family and participate in some of her religions rituals. When she came back she told me that I am like the goddess DURGA.

Being compared to a goddess is quite cool. I hope she's not the goddess of bad luck or eternal chubbiness, I want her to be something GOOD... so I looked up Durga, she looks like this:

When I looked up in Wikipedia who Durga was, I found this definition:

In Hinduism, the goddess Durga ("the inaccessible"^[1] or "the invincible"^[2]) or Maa Durga (Mother Durga) "one who can redeem in situations of utmost distress". Durga is a form of Devi, the supremely radiant goddess, a superheroine depicted as having 10 arms, riding a lion or a tiger, carrying weapons (including a Lotus flower), maintaining a meditative smile, and practicing mudras, or symbolic hand gestures.

An embodiment of creative feminine force (Shakti), Durga exists in a state of svātantrya (dependence on the universe and nothing/nobody else, i.e., self-sufficiency) and fierce compassion. Durga is considered by Hindus to be an aspect of Kali, and the mother of Ganesha, and Kartikeya.^[3] She is thus considered the fiercer, demon-fighting form of Shiva's wife, goddess Parvati. Durga manifests fearlessness and patience, and never loses her sense of humor, even during spiritual battles of epic proportion.

WOWZA!

Thank you Shivani for that beautiful compliment. I especially like the part about the meditative smile, which I am not exactly sure what it is but it sounds Mona Lisa-ish so I'm good with it.

But you know what? You should "meet" my bloggy friends; they too are amazing goddesses! They juggle many tasks with a sense of humor, grace, intelligence , bravery, compassion, spirituality, creativity, faith, frugality, and generosity, thus needing all 10 of those arms.

They cook, they clean, they teach, they play, they comfort, they give, they discipline, they create, they pray, they love.

Is there a goddess with 20 arms?