 They also had to carry the emblems of a human skull as an alms-bowl, and the skull of the Brahmin they had slain mounted upon a wooden staff as a banner.These Hindu "kapalika" ascetics soon evolved into an extreme outcaste sect of the 'left-hand' tantric path (Skt.vamamarg) of "shakti" or goddess worship.The early Buddhist tantric "yogins" and "yoginis" adopted the same goddess or "dakini" attributes of the "kapalikas".