Angela Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Kali (in Sanskrit, “black”) is in Hindu beliefs, the goddess of death, destruction, fear, and horror who destroys ignorance brings world order, liberates, and blesses those who seek to know God. Kali symbolizes power and divine strength.
Known by many other names, Kali is the chief of the Mahavidyas, a group of ten Tantric goddesses who each form different aspects of the Mother Goddess Parvati. Kali is worshipped by Hindus throughout India and Nepal and by Sri Lankan Buddhists.
On one side, as the reincarnation of Shiva’s wife, Parvati, Kali symbolizes fertility, love, beauty, harmony, marriage, children, and devotion. More commonly, however, she is associated with the dark and evil aspect of Parvati, and giving her associations with death, time, sexuality, violence.
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