Desire

Rocking Depiction of Kali the artist’s Id, that closely resembles the Goddess Kali, By Nina Paley…

…as discussed at Sepia Mutiny. Comments are closed so sadly I can’t express my admiration for the bang on (pun intended) depiction of Kali Durga. I’m currently working furiously on finished an entry on Kali Ma entry for my Venusian Verses, Wise -Dom Bites series and had to catalog this terrific iconographic depiction of Her Ferociousness.

PS. Speaking of Black Holes, Check out her Yoni Eye! Brilliant!

Art by Nina Paley
Below is a sampling of Kali Ma wisdom I Lola and I, gathered from around the net.

Source: http://www.yoni.com/bitchf/kali.shtml

Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. p. 329

“Kali represents the entire physical plane. She is the drama, tragedy, humor, and sorrow of life. She is the brother, father, sister, mother, lover, and friend. She is the fiend, monster, beast, and brute. She is the sun and the ocean. She is the grass and the dew. She is our sense of accomplishment and our sense of doing worthwhile. Our thrill of discovery is a pendant on her bracelet. Our gratification is a spot of color on her cheek. Our sense of importance is the bell on her ankle.
The full and seductive, terrible and wonderful earth mother always has something to offer.”

Source: http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/amethystbt/goddesskali.html

Kali’s four arms represent the complete cycle of Creation/ Destruction/ Creation/Destruction, contained within her. She represents the creative and destructive rhythms of the cosmos. Her sword is the sword of knowledge, that slices through ignorance and destroys false consciousness. She is said to open the gates of freedom with this sword, having cut the bonds that bind human beings.

http://thesoulsjourney.com/kali.html

Poets and mystics advise us that in order to know Her we must plunge into Her luscious, radiant, blackness, dive through our fear of the unknown, into Her overwhelming mystery and allow ourselves to dissolve in Her velvety midnight embrace.

http://www.exoticindiaart.com/kali.htm

Kali’s dwelling place, the cremation ground denotes a place where the five elements (Sanskrit: pancha mahabhuta) are dissolved. Kali dwells where dissolution takes place.

The image of a recumbent Shiva lying under the feet of Kali represents Shiva as the passive potential of creation and Kali as his Shakti.

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It is she that powers him. This Shakti is expressed as the i in Shiva’s name. Without this i, Shiva becomes Shva, which in Sanskrit means a corpse. Thus suggesting that without his Shakti, Shiva is powerless or inert.

http://www.goddess.ws/kali.html

It is partly correct to say Kali is a goddess of death but She brings the death of the ego as the illusory self-centered view of reality. Nowhere in the Hindu stories is She seen killing anything but demons nor is She associated specifically with the process of human dying like the Hindu god Yama (who really is the god of death). It is true that both Kali and Shiva are said to inhabit cremation grounds and devotees often go to these places to meditate. This is not to worship death but rather it is to overcome the I-am-the-body idea by reinforcing the awareness that the body is a temporary condition. Shiva and Kali are said to inhabit these places because it is our attachment to the body that gives rise to the ego. Shiva and Kali grant liberation by removing the illusion of the ego. Thus we are the eternal I AM and not the body.