kostromas:Kali is the Hindu goddess of chaos, time, change, power, creation, preservation and destru
kostromas:Kali is the Hindu goddess of chaos, time, change, power, creation, preservation and destruction.Her earliest appearance is that of a destroyer principally of evil forces. In the later traditions, Kali has become inextricably linked with Shiva. The unleashed form of Kali often becomes wild and uncontrollable, and only Shiva is able to tame her just as only Kali can tame Shiva. This is both because she is often a transformed version of one of his consorts and because he is able to match her wildness. Shiva’s involvement with Tantra and Kali’s dark nature have led to her becoming an important Tantric figure. To the Tantric worshippers, it was essential to face her curse, the terror of death, as willingly as they accepted blessings from her beautiful, nurturing, maternal aspect.For them, wisdom meant learning that no coin has only one side: as death cannot exist without life, so life cannot exist without death. Kali’s role sometimes grew beyond that of a chaos — which could be confronted — to that of one who could bring wisdom, and she is given great metaphysical significance by some Tantric texts. -- source link