Goddess of prosperity, the warrior class, and entertainers in Japan. Depicted as a male or female warrior, often with three heads and multiple arms holding weapons, standing or sitting atop a sow or boar, or driving a chariot drawn by seven pigs. In Japan, this deity is also sometimes depicted as a beautiful female goddess of fortune standing or sitting on a lotus. In her female form, she is the consort of Dainichi Nyorai (Skt. = Vairocana), the Great Solar Buddha. In this role, she is the harbinger of Dainichi, the Goddess of Dawn, a personification of light, one identified with the blinding rays and fire of the rising sun, and thus with the power of invisibility and mirage. Marishiten’s powers of illusion were probably the main reason she was adopted as the tutelary deity of street magicians and entertainers. Her mount, the boar, “represents audacious advance without fear, a desirable quality for a warrior.”
(Digital paint 2016 )