Scary Kali Goddess

Kali is the name of one of the seven tongues of agni the rigvedic god of fire in the mundaka upanishad 2 4 but it is unlikely that this refers to the goddess. Whatever she attacked him each drop raktabija s blood turned into a clone of himself as soon as it touched the ground.

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In tibetan buddhism her counterpart is male with the name kala.

Scary kali goddess. Here she is depicted as having born from the brow of goddess durga during one of her battles with the evil forces. In both of her forms she is described as being black in color but is most often. The gods are forces of nature.

Jul 17 2012 kali comes from the sanskrit root word kal which means time. Goddess kali kali is portrayed mostly in two forms. Seeing the sudden demise of the whole daitya army canda rushed to attack that most horrendous goddess kali.

The popular four armed form and the ten armed mahakali form. Kali is often associated with death but she is actually mother who can become scary when her children walk in the wrong path and also is caring and loving. Funny how a lion baring out its fangs or an intimidating looking macho man isn t scary scary is the statue of a goddess angrily looking at you from 10 feet away least bothered about the other two.

She is strong and also a goddess of knowledge. If you don t like kali don t work with kali. She guides us towards reality as life and death and also is mysterious in nature.

As the legend goes in the. According to mythology the goddess durga battled the buffalo demon mahishasura for 10 days and finally slayed his head on 10th day. She assumed the form of a powerful goddess and became popular with the composition of the devi mahatmya a text of the 5th 6th century ad.

Login to reply the answers post. Kali is a scary goddess and hecate is not exactly all sugar and spice either. She who is black or she who is death in hinduism goddess of time doomsday and death or the black goddess the feminine form of sanskrit kala time doomsday death or black kali s origins can be traced to the deities of the village tribal and mountain cultures of south asia who were gradually appropriated and transformed if never quite tamed.

Nature is not always kind. Kali is the fearful and ferocious form of the mother goddess. According to the puranas.

Kali then wrecked havoc and devoured trampled or slew the entire army. See more ideas about kali goddess kali ma. Kali was born from the goddess here ambika aka devi durga etc brow as the daityas led by canda and munda attacked ambika.

Goddess kali is the most misunderstood of the hindu goddesses. The really scary one one of the demons durga fought in the devi mahatmyam was called raktabija which means drop of blood. However despite of all those misunderstanding goddess kali brings the death of the ego as the illusory self centered view of reality.

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