Vaaraahi removes the addictions and impurities of her devotees. Upon birth, she drank the blood of Andhakāsura and destroyed the demons that sprang from that blood. She uplifts the good qualities in her devotees like a boar’s tusks uprooting vegetables. If we look closely at our human brain stem, we see a boar-shaped structure near tusk-like protuberances from C1. The roles that this brain stem and first vertebrae have within the body mirror Varaha and Varahi’s supportive and uplifting functions within humanity.
