Kali-Ma

AUM! OM! OM! OM! I am forever YOURS, oh my great and wonderful LOVE! I dedicate myself forever and always to your explosive beauty and your terrifying horror!

It will be my focus, generally, to feature Kali on Her own here, with certain important exceptions.

Mother Kali

Benign and socially-integrated images of the Mother Kali (Kali-Ma).

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  Kali surrounded by phases of a girl's and woman's life; from devotees website: Kāli Maa Conceptual Devotional Exploration

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  Kali nursing; modern; from Etsy

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Tantric Kali / Smashana Kali

Images of Kali on cremation grounds, especially. These icons are more brutal and frightening than the domestic Mother or amorous Lover graphics.

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  Traditional art; Kali standing atop a copulating couple (monarchs) who are laying on a burning giant lotus flower

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  Kali seated upon a corpse and his spirit

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  Smashana Kali (Cremation Grounds Goddess), traditional from a blog; also features Shiva

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  Smashana Kali by Ravimishra085; from devotees website: Kāli Maa Conceptual Devotional Exploration

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  Smashana Kali by P.C. Biswas, Calcutta; from the Metropolitan Museum website

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Warrior Goddess / Horror Queen

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  Kali as painted by Raja Ravi Varma; from Wikipedia

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  Giant Kali Warrior receiving offerings; from amazon

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  The heart of the Nautilus; Captain Nemo (a Sikh warrior) worships in private at his Kali shrine on board; "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" film (fiction), still; it seems likely that She has one foot atop the body of Shiva, lying on the floor

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  A demon temple for thuggees; "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" film (fiction), still

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  The Temple of Doom, Kali as a demon in fiction

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