Kali
Kali is the greatest closely realized of all the Grim Goddesses. It has been claimed that Her name is resultant from the Hindu word for Distance, yet also major "black."She is also called Durga.
Her very defenses is intended to distress. She is black and high, with fangs and claws. She wears a girdle of cut off arms, a necklace of skulls or cut off heads, trinkets of low-grade corpses, cobras as bracelets or garlands.
Her jaw is blood-smeared. She is accompanied by she-demons.
Habitually She is prohibited standing or dancing on the association of the god Shiva. Here and there in She is feasts on his guts.
Yet She also is a loving mother, and fantastically in that aspect is worshipped by millions of Hindus.
Cast-off to a god that is all-"good", Westerners wear found it grumpy to understand why Hindus would exalt such a deity, or why their art emphasizes Her greatest revolting forms.
"Tantric people attending worship of Kali concept it essential to encompass her Pledge, the terror of death, as unhesitatingly as they recognizable Blessings from her sensational, gardening, protective aspect. For them, wisdom intended learning that no coin has simply one side: as death can't be present not up to scratch life, so also life can't be present not up to scratch death. Kali's sages communed with her in the grisly idea of the wake showground, to become familiarized with images of death. They understood, 'His Goddess, his loving Blood relation in time, who gives him beginning and loves him in the flesh, also destroys him in the flesh. His image of Her is suspended if he does not know Her as his tearer and devourer.'"
-- Barbara Tourist, The Woman's Calendar of Mythology and Secrets
Changed photo, paramount black and white, of coppice statue from the 18th or
19th century, Nepal, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Prefer Reading:
* The Goddess Kali, part of a Web site dependable to Tantrism. Warning: very
slow loading.
* The Grim Goddess and me, an passionately group and well-written record of
beginning to know Kali, by Del Marshall.
Source: religion-events.blogspot.com
