Kali (black), or Kali Ma (the Black Mother) is the Terrible Hindu War Goddess (or Devi) of time, crime, death, destruction and doomesday who demands bloody sacrifice of both animals and humans. Her iconography, cult, and mythology is also often associated with sexuality, and violence. Kali makes her first major appearance in Sanskrit culture in the Devi Mahatmya (“The Glorifications of the Goddess,” c. 6th century ce). She is sometimes called Durga or Tara, also Parvati.
Kali is often depicted entwined with serpents; a necklace of skulls; a girdle of dissevered human hands holding various weapons of death; and sometimes tigers crouching at her feet. You will also find Kali with her husband dead under her feet, a long black tongue protruding from her mouth with blood dripping, several arms that are extended, one hand grasping a sword, another the head of a giant, and the other two signalling to her hosts. Intoxicated with the blood of her foes, her eyes flash with rage, her eyebrows are dyed with crimson, and her blood flows down her breast.
Before I explain the Goddess Kali further, as I have stated before many times in other articles, all Gods and Goddesses have always represented the As Above planets as the So Below representatives on earth.
Kali is no different.
Although there are many different descriptions, depictions and even variations of names for this death Goddess, in the end they all point to the same meaning which Kali represents that I will explain below.
The word and Goddess Kali is found in both ancient and modern Hindu literature. It can also be found in the Old Testament of the Phoenician Hebrews which I believe her worship first spread. The name of the Indian city called Calcutta or Kali-Cutta whose original name was Kalighat, “Kali’s landing-place.”Even today where I live in California or should I say Kali-fornia derives its name from Kali and may very well be dedicated to this Goddess.
Kali’s consort is the God Shiva (/ˈʃivə/; Sanskrit: Śiva, meaning “The Auspicious One”), also known as Mahadeva (“Great God”). He is the supreme god within Shaivism, one of the three most influential denominations in contemporary Hinduism. He is one of the five primary forms of God in the Smarta tradition, and “the Destroyer” or “the Transformer” among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine.(Wkipedia)
In India, her worship gave rise to that group of professional robbers who we call thugs today. They are said to be a secret religious fraternity who practiced systematic killing in many different ways. It is is said that many thousands of humans were killed by Thugs in India at the hands of Kali-worship.
A majority of the Thugs were Mohammedans who usually traveled in gangs terrorizing, robbing and murdering their victims. In Arabic, a judge is referred to as a Kali; an official to whom questions of Muhammadan Law are referred. These thugs and self professed judges of other people in their community were feared by the people of India and various measures were made in an attempt to disband the group. Finally in 1829 they were mostly surpressed by the English government through Lord William Bentinck who arrested 2,000 of them over six years; and of these 1,500 were convicted and sentenced to death.(1)
MEANING OF KALI
It is important you know that from from the word Kali, we get the word alkali or al-kali (/ˈælkəlaɪ/; from Arabic: al-qaly القلي, القالي , “ashes of the saltwort”) which is obtained from the ashes of burnt vegetables and humans. This is also the basis of such words in the Hebrew signifies torrere, ‘to toast’ or ‘parch.’ According to Hebrew writers, there are two kinds of kali—one made of parched corn, the other of parched pulse. This Hebrew definition is key to understanding the role of the Goddess Kali and all other Goddesses.
Alkaline salt is called alas, alasor, alasort, alkahejl glauieti; according to some cakadis. Alkali,because a great quantity of that kind of salt is obtained from a plant called by the Egyptians kali, by us glass-wort. The name alkali hath been given to the fixed salt of all plants; and that because an effervescence arises upon mixing an acid liquor with the salt; all volatile or fixed salts, and all tenestrious matters which ferment with acids, have come to be called alkalies.
Kali with her eyes flaming red and tongue dripping of her victims blood is the drinker and eater of Al-Kali. In the world of true alchemy/science and real life modern Gnostics, she represents the So Below sulfuric acid which comes from the As Above planet Venus. Sulfuric acid is derived from the Venusian clouds which are thick and are composed of sulfur dioxide and droplets of sulfuric acid. These clouds reflect about 75% of the sunlight that falls on them, which is what obscures the surface of Venus from regular imaging.
Sulfuric acid is very corrosive, and must be handled with care. Another name for it is oil of vitriol.
The word VITRIOL is based on the Latin phrase, “Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando”, whose meaning in English is, “Visit the Interior Parts of the Earth; by Rectification Thou Shalt Find the Hidden Stone.”
GNOSTIC WARRIOR CONCLUSION
This is why the Hindu Kali is portrayed in this deathly fashion is because she is the same ancient war and death Goddess you will find in ancient Egypt as Isis, Phoenicia as Ishtar (black goddess), Greece, Rome as Cybele (great mother), Europe as Estarte and in Germany as Rosy (Rosi). The ancient Egyptians often represented this Goddess by a black stone, which is the same black stone worshiped by the Arabs.
For this reason, Ptolemy had called her the Goddess with ten thousand names.
Kali is one Goddess who is Venus under many names depending on the country and or religion. The planet made of sulfuric acid and the very alchemical substance that makes war on our bodies, emotions and intellect making us do immoral and unnatural acts.
One of her colors is green which represents how the worship and following of Kali’s teaching turn the blood into a green pool of sulfuric acid and the color black representing both black magick and death.
The stories and worship of Kali is based on the As Above, So Below and how humans are managed alchemically by various religions. She is the false Goddess who ursurped the throne of true God everywhere.
The very reason why our planet is in turmoil, death and destruction.
Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky had written in Isis Unveiled: “In this age, Vishnu had to incarnate himself in Christna, in order to save humanity from the goddess Kali, consort of Siva, the all-annihilating—the goddess of death, destruction, and human misery. Kali is the best emblem to represent the “fall of man;” the falling of spirit into the degradation of matter, with all its terrific results. We have to rid ourselves of Kali before we can ever reach “Moksha,” or Nirvana, the abode of blessed Peace and Spirit.”
SOURCES:
1.The New standard encyclopedia, Volume 11 edited by William A. Colledge, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Jotham Haga
2. A cyclopædia of biblical literature, ed. by J. Kitto edited by William Lindsay Alexander, John Kitto
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The problem is we all take these idols and scriptures literally. The occultic (Hidden meaning) lies deep within. To understand Kali you need to understand from the standpoint of purity of creation and destruction. Yes I daresay, destruction is pure in itself. Without a complete destruction there can not be pure creation.
Let me explain it this way. Kali in terms of Physics is nothing but the untamed energy that led to the creation. When the balance is lost, Kali comes down destroying the evil. But you have to understand, this is like nuclear energy, radiation. Anything that comes its way will be destroyed. Western schools have identified and treated Kali as a demoness and what not. Same as Shiva Linga which is treated as Male Phallus. This is absolutely ridiculous.
Also in other sense she is the mother who is kind and absolutely intolerant of evil that dares challenge the fine balance of the universe. Sadly, even in the land of Kali, people kill innocent animals in the name of Kali calling it “Bali/Sacrifice”. The true meaning of sacrifice is long lost. One should be sacrificing their inner demons and not killing innocent animals in the name of God. If you consider scriptures, she is drinking the blood of “Raktbija” as a drop of the blood of this demon spawns more of him. So she drinks the blood of the demon so that he is finished once and for all. We sacrifice innocent animals , twist and turn the meaning to satisfy our desires. Does she really want that ?
Kali is always depicted as naked. This is again not a perversion but the symbolism that she is in her pure form of creation in other words purity. Pure destruction of the EVIL does not require a veil. We humans dress them up to meet our standards of sociality and purity.
In Hinduism everything is symbolic. Deeper we dive more we understand the one true meaning of the personifications. In the end as per Vedantic philosophy, God is shapeless, genderless, formless. God is “Turya”. One who understands this meaning will have attained peace like no one else.
Kali is basically the Hulk version of Shakti (female forms of God). She comes and goes from within Durga/Parvati, to destroy which cannot be destroyed without animalistic rampage. It’s not a character, but a temporary form. I come from the city where people worship Kali the most. Kolkata, or Kalikata.
Hi. Hindu here. I commend all the info you collected but I’m pretty sure your sources are wrong. For one, it was not Krishna (that’s how you spell it) who came down to stop her, it was Shiva, her husband. She had flown into a killing spree in her anger after defeating the demon mahisura. He’s not Dead in the pictures- he lies in her path on purpose and when she steps on him, she sticks out her tongue in shock( as people do when they make a mistake) and reverts back to Parvati, his wife. She’s definitely not evil- just the goddess of war.
Hi, Historian of Truth here who has pulled this history from many unbiased sources. I have often found being a Roman Catholic that you do not ask your local Catholic priest about true Christian history and or hidden biblical meanings because you will most likely receive allegorical stories and interpretations that they do not even understand. Just FYI – this fact extends to most all religious teachings around the world, including the Hindu.
Exactly! I dislike the label that she is terrible when she expressed embarrassment and humility after being angry. No terror or evilness. I think it’s people’s superficial judgement of the goddess.
Almost all of your blogs about the Goddess in some aspect has me until about midway or the end. You obviously have not been initiated into the feminine mystery schools. Blavatsky was not saying to kill off Kali but for the current state of humanity (which is full of demonic energy and tendencies) to die, go through regeneration and become reborn (new heaven and new earth)! Kali represents a part of ourselves that needs to die off and gain maturity or wisdom (hence the association with Saturn, not just time but wisdom gained through experiencing the dark night of the soul.
Nothing dark and evil as only a man who has not been initiated into the women’s mysteries should speak about such a Goddess. She has NOT USURPED THE ORIGINAL GOD. What a joke she IS GOD. She is not black magic, she is alchemy! She is transformation and regeneration something most men have a very difficult time with.
I suggest you do some serious studying on the divine feminine and do more extensive research on Goddesses before even trying to write another blog. Try and work on ones for the Gods. smh
If you study the ancient mysteries and you honestly remove your own biases in which your own gender and personal preferences, you will come to understand the facts that the female/feminine principle has always been associated with duality. Like our materialistic natures in which darkness and evil are inherent in EVERY human regardless if they are a man or woman.
“…Join the male and the female and you will find what you are seeking…”
—Aphorisms of Zosimus
“Unfortunately our Western mind, lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, nor even a name, for the union of opposites through the middle path, that most fundamental item of inward experience…
…It is at once the most individual fact and the most universal, the most legitimate fulfillment of the meaning of the individual’s life.”
doomesday who demands bloody sacrifice of both animals and humans. Her iconography, cult, and mythology is also often associated with sexuality, and violence. Kali makes her first major appearance in Sanskrit culture in the Devi Mahatmya (“The Glorifications of the Goddess,” c. 6th century ce). She is sometimes called Durga or Tara, also Parvati.
The word and Goddess Kali is found in both ancient and modern Hindu literature. It can also be found in the Old Testament of the Phoenician Hebrews which I believe her worship first spread. The name of the Indian city called Calcutta or Kali-Cutta whose original name was Kalighat, “Kali’s landing-place.” Even today where I live in California or should I say Kali-fornia derives its name from Kali and may very well be dedicated to this Goddess.
The problem is we all take these idols and scriptures literally. The occultic (Hidden meaning) lies deep within. To understand Kali you need to understand from the standpoint of purity of creation and destruction. Yes I daresay, destruction is pure in itself. Without a complete destruction there can not be pure creation.
Let me explain it this way. Kali in terms of Physics is nothing but the untamed energy that led to the creation. When the balance is lost, Kali comes down destroying the evil. But you have to understand, this is like nuclear energy, radiation. Anything that comes its way will be destroyed. Western schools have identified and treated Kali as a demoness and what not. Same as Shiva Linga which is treated as Male Phallus. This is absolutely ridiculous.
Also in other sense she is the mother who is kind and absolutely intolerant of evil that dares challenge the fine balance of the universe. Sadly, even in the land of Kali, people kill innocent animals in the name of Kali calling it “Bali/Sacrifice”. The true meaning of sacrifice is long lost. One should be sacrificing their inner demons and not killing innocent animals in the name of God. If you consider scriptures, she is drinking the blood of “Raktbija” as a drop of the blood of this demon spawns more of him. So she drinks the blood of the demon so that he is finished once and for all. We sacrifice innocent animals , twist and turn the meaning to satisfy our desires. Does she really want that ?
Kali is always depicted as naked. This is again not a perversion but the symbolism that she is in her pure form of creation in other words purity. Pure destruction of the EVIL does not require a veil. We humans dress them up to meet our standards of sociality and purity.
In Hinduism everything is symbolic. Deeper we dive more we understand the one true meaning of the personifications. In the end as per Vedantic philosophy, God is shapeless, genderless, formless. God is “Turya”. One who understands this meaning will have attained peace like no one else.
Kali is basically the Hulk version of Shakti (female forms of God). She comes and goes from within Durga/Parvati, to destroy which cannot be destroyed without animalistic rampage. It’s not a character, but a temporary form. I come from the city where people worship Kali the most. Kolkata, or Kalikata.
Thank for Kali info.
Lakshmi is affiliated with Venus
Kali is lunar
Or Saturnian due to its correspondence with Kali Yuga.
Hi. Hindu here. I commend all the info you collected but I’m pretty sure your sources are wrong. For one, it was not Krishna (that’s how you spell it) who came down to stop her, it was Shiva, her husband. She had flown into a killing spree in her anger after defeating the demon mahisura. He’s not Dead in the pictures- he lies in her path on purpose and when she steps on him, she sticks out her tongue in shock( as people do when they make a mistake) and reverts back to Parvati, his wife. She’s definitely not evil- just the goddess of war.
Hi, Historian of Truth here who has pulled this history from many unbiased sources. I have often found being a Roman Catholic that you do not ask your local Catholic priest about true Christian history and or hidden biblical meanings because you will most likely receive allegorical stories and interpretations that they do not even understand. Just FYI – this fact extends to most all religious teachings around the world, including the Hindu.
Exactly! I dislike the label that she is terrible when she expressed embarrassment and humility after being angry. No terror or evilness. I think it’s people’s superficial judgement of the goddess.
Almost all of your blogs about the Goddess in some aspect has me until about midway or the end. You obviously have not been initiated into the feminine mystery schools. Blavatsky was not saying to kill off Kali but for the current state of humanity (which is full of demonic energy and tendencies) to die, go through regeneration and become reborn (new heaven and new earth)! Kali represents a part of ourselves that needs to die off and gain maturity or wisdom (hence the association with Saturn, not just time but wisdom gained through experiencing the dark night of the soul.
Nothing dark and evil as only a man who has not been initiated into the women’s mysteries should speak about such a Goddess. She has NOT USURPED THE ORIGINAL GOD. What a joke she IS GOD. She is not black magic, she is alchemy! She is transformation and regeneration something most men have a very difficult time with.
I suggest you do some serious studying on the divine feminine and do more extensive research on Goddesses before even trying to write another blog. Try and work on ones for the Gods. smh
If you study the ancient mysteries and you honestly remove your own biases in which your own gender and personal preferences, you will come to understand the facts that the female/feminine principle has always been associated with duality. Like our materialistic natures in which darkness and evil are inherent in EVERY human regardless if they are a man or woman.
“…Join the male and the female and you will find what you are seeking…”
—Aphorisms of Zosimus
“Unfortunately our Western mind, lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, nor even a name, for the union of opposites through the middle path, that most fundamental item of inward experience…
…It is at once the most individual fact and the most universal, the most legitimate fulfillment of the meaning of the individual’s life.”
—Carl Jung
I agree!
I agree with Istar!
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_(G%C3%B6ttin)
please get your facts straight…
Terrible Hindu War Goddess (or Devi) … she’s not as evil as you portrayed her here.