Kali Ma And Super Massive Black Holes.

Two streams of research have recently collided in my consciousness and its just so darn exciting!

I’ve been following the theme of cosmic influence throughout world myth. As described in Venusian Verses: My Muse Is Why; I have a sneaky suspicion that the earliest myths of humanity were recounting celestial theater, that the gods were planets, stars, and other spatial phenomena. It was only much later in time that those godly attributes were anthropomorphised and passed on to human beings, so called great men and hero’s, kings, priests, tribal leaders prophets etc.

On the other hand, I’ve been engaged in a personal study of the cosmos via the work of astronomers the world over. Armchair researcher, a phenomenon of the 21st century. What a luxury. Anyhoo…

First stream: Black Holes.

Astronomers have determined black holes are not simply the devouring, sucking machines of matter they once thought they were. They have been able to measure, quantify and duplicate observations that show cosmic rays don’t come from all regions of the sky, they’re shot out from actively feeding supermassive black holes!

Cosmic Man!

Only a few short years ago, black holes were theoretical, and theoretically they were believed to be spots in space or rather “depressions” in space, sort of like the dent your butt makes sitting in that chair.

Rather than black, think invisible holes. We were unable to detect these depressions because they were thought to suck everything including light into themselves. What ever was sucked into a black hole was supposedly just snuffed out of creation. But now we know, the cauldron is leaky and she’s leaking cosmic rays!

Cosmic rays are possibly bombarding any planet within any galaxy thought to be powered by a black hole. The growing consensus is that more galaxy’s than not, house, no are powered by their own local or possibly even invading black hole.

Chandra Takes In The Bright Lights, Big City Of The Milky Way

The Milky Way galaxy has its own super massive black hole near the vicinity of the “Galactic Center” or Sagittarius A* So cool right? That’s why I’m filing this post under cool. What is cooler than black holes? I don’t know, I can’t think of anything more shrouded in mystery and rooted in science.

Our BH is as some say, starving.

Milky Way Monster Stars in Cosmic Reality Show

Black Hole at Milky Way’s Center is on Starvation Diet:

others call it resting

Heres a thought:

In contrary to ever hungry Black Holes,is that ,unlike black holes, wormholes have no event horizon. This means that things could go in a wormhole and come back again. In fact, theorists say one variety of wormhole wraps back onto itself, so that it leads not to another universe, but back to its own entrance.
- blackmonsters.blogspot.com

So I went to some sites and it turns out what this guy proposes is not just a possibility but is on the table of scientific thought as being plausible.
Double triple quadruple eff N cool!

PS This blogger is both a PHD in Physics major, and a culinary art student. Physics and food, in another time he’d be called a sorcerer.

I totally dig the fact that these extremely powerful cosmic rays (waves of light) start their journey as ferocious quicker than spit projectiles. But once they enter our atmosphere, they break up and scatter across the earth as tiny representatives of their former size and speed. despite the fact their strength is diminished, upon entry they become immeasurable in number, enter and pass through every single thing they come into contact with. Its as a precise image of the micro and the macro as the Apple

I’ve been chipping away at the theory that the same life-giving / death-dealing processes we observe between the super structures of the cosmos (ie formation and dissolution of stars, planets black holes etc) are mirrored within the natural mechanisms of our planet, our bodies and even our own psyches.

And this brings me to the second stream: Kali.

I was inspired to dive deeper into Kali imagery and history after recognizing that just as Venusian energy had made such a distinct appearance in my life, Kali has also been making her presence known to me through dreams, synchronistic turns of events, and symbolism.

Desire, by Nina Paley NOT a depiction of Kali Ma - Just a Look Alike

I came fully to this recognition thanks to Hearts Post: Women’s Country and realized Kali’s been haunting the back rooms of my mind for some time, in the guise of Lillith, in the guise of Crone (Hecate) in the guise of Spider Woman, even in the guise of Venus, In her bright aspect, Venus prompts humankind forward through our desires. Desires for flight, for refrigerated goods, for sumptuous music: this age is definitely marked by the projected desires of human nations. In her dark aspect, she is straightforward, her desires have nothing to do with building commerce or families or civilization, her lust is for her own individual satisfaction. Her energy is strongly felt in the numerous wars spreading across the planet.

Both sides of Venus are integrated within Kali Ma.

With the above mentioned Black Hole notes I’ve chosen, consider these descriptions of Kali Ma.

Talk about cool…

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.

Many stories describe Kali’s dance with Shiva as one that “threatens to destroy the world” by its savage power. Art historian Stella Kramrisch has noted that the image of kali dancing with Shiva follows closely the myth of the demon Daruka. When Shiva asks his wife Parvati to destroy this demon, she enters Shiva’s body and transforms herself from the poison that is stored in his throat. She emerges from Shiva as Kali, ferocious in appearance, and with the help of her flesh eating retinue attacks and defeats the demon.

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

Name: Kali is so called because She devours Kala (time) and then resumes Her own dark formlessness. She is the embodiment of three gunas (qualities of nature): She creates with Her sattva guna (quality of goodness and purity), preserves with rajas (passion and activity), and destroys with tamas (ignorance and inertia).

Complexion: Her complexion is deep blue, like the sky. As the sky is limitless, so is She. From a distance one sees the ocean water as blue, but it is colorless and transparent when examined closely.

Smiling face: She is ever-blissful.

Tongue: Kali’s white teeth symbolize sattva or serenity; Her red tongue, rajas, or activity; and Her drunkenness: tamas or inertia. The meaning: tamas can be conquered by rajas, and rajas by sattva.

Full breast: She is the nourisher of all beings.

Terrible form: She is the mother of the universe as well as the destroyer.

Necklace: It consist of fifty skulls that represent the fifty letters of the Sanskrit alphabet, the origin of sound. She is Shabda Brahman (Sound-Brahman), or Logos-the source of creation.

Naked form: She is called digambari, “clad in space.” She is infinite, so no finite dress can cover Her.

http://hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/aa051202a.htm

Her black complexion symbolizes her all-embracing and transcendental nature. Says the Mahanirvana Tantra: “Just as all colors disappear in black, so all names and forms disappear in her”. Her nudity is primeval, fundamental, and transparent like Nature — the earth, sea, and sky. Kali is free from the illusory covering, for she is beyond the all maya or “false consciousness.”

So there you have it, emerging science reflected in a luminous pool of mythic wisdom handed down through the ages by mystics and such.

In my artistic opinion, Kali Ma is the archtypical emanation of the starving naked monster at our galactic center.

This concludes my first Kali Ma Post. I hope y’all enjoyed it.

Next the Galactic Cauldron. (still in progress)

Next in the Kali Ma series: MA(crocosm) Kali’s Macrocosmic nature

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