In Guwahati this week, on the slope of Nilachal Hill where the Brahmaputra widens past the city, the doors of the Kamakhya temple are closed. The goddess is believed to be in her annual menstruation, and for three days the temple, like the goddess, is at rest. An observational essay on the Ambubachi Mela and what India's most theologically radical festival both reveals and complicates about the female body, the earth, and the divine feminine.