Most crazy deity ever? Vajrayogini is a Tibetan Buddhist Tantric goddess depicted as treading on a Kali-like goddess and Bhairava (the fierce form of Shiva). Comment below from Wikipedia. Note that a dakini is a kind of demon!
>>>Vajrayoginī is visualized as the translucent, deep red form of a 16-year-old female with the third eye of wisdom set vertically on her forehead and unbound flowing hair. Vajrayoginī is generally depicted with the traditional accoutrements of a dakini, including a kartika (a vajra-handled flaying knife) in her right hand and a kapala filled with blood in her left hand that she drinks from with upturned mouth. Her consort Cakrasaṃvara is often symbolically depicted as a khatvanga on Vajrayoginī's left shoulder, when she is in "solitary hero" form.
>>>Vajrayoginī's khaṭvānga is marked with a vajra and from it hangs a damaru drum, a bell, and a triple banner. Her extended right leg treads on the chest of red Kālarātri, while her bent left leg treads on the forehead of black Bhairava, bending his head backward and pressing it into his back at the level of his heart. Her head is adorned with a crown of five human skulls and she wears a necklace of fifty human skulls. She is depicted as standing in the center of a blazing fire of exalted wisdom. Her countenance shows both erotic and fierce features, "in the fullness of bliss, laughing and baring her fangs."
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