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"The symbol for the temple is input, and a corridor transforms into the temple." -MASKS ^STNG

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-From tantric tradition
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"we learn that the garland of heads about Kali's neck symbolize the letters or
vibrations of the Sanskrit alphabet. We learn Kali's seed-syllables, names and
potent Mantras, the tools by which we can transform ourselves and become one with
Her."

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Mother Kali
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As Maha Kali (with form) the Great Goddess is most commonly visualised as twenty-armed,
ten-faced, with three eyes on each face, her complexion dark and shining. In this
form she destroys the egoistic demons Madhu and Kaitabha. This is a form which emanated
out of the dark goddess Durga. As Kala Ratri, tawny-eyed, cruel and fond of war,
wearing tiger and elephant skins, holding axe, noose, other weapons and a skull-bowl
from which she drinks blood, Kali is the "Night of Destruction" at the
termination of this world, the Female Spiritual Power always ready to defeat the
last demons, so none can pollute the next world. Forms of Bhadra Kali have sixteen
arms, eighteen arms or one hundred arms, all giving protection to her devotees.
Bhadra Kali is always visualised as huge, wearing a three-pointed crown ornamented
with the crescent moon, a snake about her neck, her body draped in red and her mood
jolly. She pierces the body of a buffalo with her lance, one of her many weapons.
Hindu tantrics believe that in this form She pervades the whole universe.

Some of the more striking similarities between Kali and Goddesses of other parts
of the world are as follows:

We find Kali in Mexico as an ancient Aztec Goddess of enormous stature. Her name
is Coatlicue, and her resemblance to the Hindu Kali is striking. The colossal Aztec
statue of Coatlicue fuses in one image the dual functions of the earth, which both
creates and destroys. In different aspects she represents Coatlicue, "Lady
Of the Skirt of Serpents" or Goddess of the Serpent Petticoat"; Cihuacoatl,
"the Serpent Woman"; Tlazolteotl, "Goddess of Filth"; and Tonantzin,
"Our Mother," who was later sanctified by the Catholic Church as the Virgin
of Guadalupe, the dark-faced Madonna, La Virgen Morena, la Virgen Guadalupana, the
patroness and protectress of New Spain; and who is still the patroness of all Indian
Mexico. In the statue her head is severed from her body, and from the neck flow
two streams of blood in the shape of two serpents. She wears a skirt of serpents
girdled by another serpent as a belt. On her breast hangs a necklace of human hearts
and hands bearing a human skull as a pendant. Her hands and feet are shaped like
claws. From the bicephalous mass which takes the place of the head and which represents
Omeyocan, the topmost heaven, to the world of the Dead extending below the feet,
the statue embraces both life and death. Squat and massive, the monumental twelve-ton
sculpture embodies pyramidal, cruciform, and human forms. As the art critic Justino
Fernandez writes in his often-quoted description, it represents not a being but
an idea, "the embodiment of the cosmic-dynamic power which bestows life and
which thrives on death in the struggle of opposites."

We find Kali in ancient Crete as Rhea, the Aegean Universal Mother or Great Goddess,
who was worshipped in a vast area by many peoples. Rhea was not restricted to the
Aegean area. Among ancient tribes of southern Russia she was Rha, the Red One, another
version of Kali as Mother Time clothed in her garment of blood when she devoured
all the gods, her offspring. The same Mother Time became the Celtic Goddess Rhiannon,
who also devoured her own children one by one. This image of the cannibal mother
was typical everywhere of the Goddess of Time, who consumes what she brings forth;
or as Earth, who does the same. When Rhea was given a consort in Hellenic myth,
he was called Kronus or Chronos, "Father Time," who devoured his own children
in imitation of Rhea's earlier activity. He also castrated and killed his own
father, the Heaven-God Uranus; and he in turn was threatened by his own son, Zeus.
These myths reflect the primitive succession of sacred kings castrated and killed
by their supplanters. It was originally Rhea Kronia, Mother Time, who wielded the
castrating moon-sickle or scythe, a Scythian weapon, the instrument with which the
Heavenly Father was "reaped." Rhea herself was the Grim Reaper.

We find Kali in historic Europe. In Ireland, Kali appeared as Caillech or Cailleach,
an old Celtic name for the Great Goddess in her Destroyer aspect. Like Kali, the
Caillech was a black Mother who founded many races of people and outlived many husbands.
She was also a Creatress. She made the world, building mountain ranges of stones
that dropped from her apron.

Scotland was once called Caledonia: the land give by Kali, or Cale, or the Cailleach.
"Scotland" came from Scotia, the same goddess, known to Romans as a "dark
Aphrodite"; to Celts as Scatha or Scyth; and to Scandinavians as Skadi. Like
the Hindus' destroying Kalika, the Caillech was known as a spirit of disease.
One manifestation of her was a famous idol of carved and painted wood, kept by an
old family in Country Cork, and described as the Goddess of Smallpox. As diseased
persons in India sacrificed to the appropriate incarnation of the Kalika, so in
Ireland those afflicted by smallpox sacrificed sheep to this image. It can hardly
be doubted that Kalika and Caillech were the same word. According to various interpretations,
"caillech" meant either an old woman, or a hag, or a nun, or a "veiled
one." This last apparently referred to the Goddess's most mysterious manifestation
as the future, Fate, and Death--ever veiled from the sight of men, since no man
could know the manner of his own death. In medieval legend the Caillech became the
Black Queen who ruled a western paradise in the Indies, where men were used in Amazonian
fashion for breeding purposes only, then slain.

Spaniards called her Califia, whose territory was rich in gold, silver, and gems.
Spanish explorers later gave her name to the newly discovered paradise on the Pacific
shore of North America, which is how the state of California came to be named after
Kali. In the present century, Irish and Scottish descendants of the Celtic "creatress"
still use the word "caillech" as a synonym for "old woman."

The Black Goddess was known in Finland as Kalma (Kali Ma), a haunter of tombs and
an eater of the dead. The Black Goddess worshipped by the gypsies was named Sara-Kali,
"Queen Kali," and to this present day, Sara is worshipped in the South
of France at Ste-Marie-de-la-Mer during a yearly festival.

Some gypsies appeared in 10th-century Persia as tribes of itinerant dervishes calling
themselves Kalenderees, "People of the Goddess Kali." A common gypsy clan
name is still Kaldera or Calderash, descended from past Kali-worshippers, like the
Kele-De of Ireland. European gypsies relocated their Goddess in the ancient "Druid
Grotto" underneath Chartres Cathedral, once the interior of a sacred mount
known as the Womb of Gaul, when the area was occupied by the Carnutes, "Children
of the Goddess Car." Carnac, Kermario, Kerlescan, Kercado, Carmona in Spain,
and Chartres itself were named after this Goddess, probably a Celtic version of
Kore or Q're traceable through eastern nations to Kauri, another name for Kali.
The Druid Grotto used to be occupied by the image of a black Goddess giving birth,
similar to certain images of Kali. Christians adopted this ancient idol and called
her Virgo Paritura, "Virgin Giving Birth." Gypsies called her Sara-Kali,
"the mother, the woman, the sister, the queen, the Phuri Dai, the source of
all Romany blood." They said the black Virgin wore the dress of a gypsy dancer,
and every gypsy should make a pilgrimage to her grotto at least once in his life.
The grotto was described as "your mother's womb." A gypsy pilgrim
was told: "Shut your eyes in front of Sara the Kali, and you will know the
source of the spring of life which flows over the gypsy race. We find variations
of Kali's name throughout the ancient world.

The Greeks had a word Kalli, meaning "beautiful," but applied to things
that were not particularly beautiful such as the demonic centaurs called "kallikantzari,"
relatives of Kali's Asvins. Their city of Kallipolis, the modern Gallipoli,
was lefted in Amazon country formerly ruled by Artemis Kalliste. The annual birth
festival at Eleusis was Kalligeneia, translatable as "coming forth from the
Beautiful One," or "coming forth from Kali."

Lunar priests of Sinai, formerly priestesses of the Moon-Goddess, called themselves
"kalu." Similar priestesses of prehistoric Ireland were "kelles,"
origin of the name Kelly, which meant a hierophantic clan devoted to "the Goddess
Kele." This was cognate with the Saxon Kale, or Cale, whose lunar calendar
or kalends included the spring month of Sproutkale, when Mother Earth (Kale) put
forth new shoots. In antiquity the Phoenicians referred to the strait of Gibraltar
as Calpe, because it was considered the passage to the western paradise of the Mother.

The Black Goddess was even carried into Christianity as a mother figure, and one
can find all over the world images of Mother Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, depicted
as a black Madonna.

Kali's Name

'Kal' also translates as Time and 'i' means the Cause; Kali, the
Cause of Time or She Who is Beyond Time, activates Consciousness to perception,
allows Consciousness to perceive. The mystery of Kali's name, which begins with
the first consonant of the Sanskrit alphabet, attached to the first vowel, is deep
indeed. From tantric tradition we learn that the whole material universe is but
an expression of certain primordial sounds or vibrations.

These are expressed by the consonants and vowels of the Sanskrit alphabet, combined
together in different ways. "Seed-syllables" (Bija Mantras), short combinations
and "Spells" (Dharanis), long combinations of differing measures, are
the very "fabric" from which this universe is formed ... -From tantric tradition
we learn that the garland of heads about Kali's neck symbolize the letters or
vibrations of the Sanskrit alphabet ...

"We learn Kali's seed-syllables, names and
potent Mantras, the tools by which we can transform ourselves and become one with
Her."

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