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The Vedas
WHEN AND WHERE
From 1700BCE, India
BEFORE
3000 BCE Figurines dating to this time found in the Indus Valley suggest the worship of a fertility goddess.
AFTER
5th–3rd century BCE The Puranas, ancient Hindu texts, celebrate female power, and the goddesses described as consorts of the gods in the Vedas begin to gain their own followings.
300–700 CE Tantric rites
use images of coupled male and female deities as a focus for meditation, and Shaktism becomes a fully fledged devotional branch of Hinduism.
c.800CE Adi Shankara composes Saundaryalahari (“Waves of Beauty”), a hymn to Parvati and her sexual power

Lakshmi, goddess of good fortune, beauty, and fertility, is the consort of Lord Vishnu. She has four arms and hands, with which she dispenses material and spiritual gifts to devotees.