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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humanoid" data-source="post: 8168092" data-attributes="member: 301119">Kali (<a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/wiki/Sanskrit_language" target="_blank">Sanskrit</a>: काली, <a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/wiki/Bengali_language" target="_blank">Bengali</a>: কালী, both Kālī), also known as Kalika (<a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/wiki/Bengali_language" target="_blank">Bengali</a>: কালিকা, Kālikā), is the <a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/wiki/Hinduism" target="_blank">Hindu</a> <a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/wiki/Goddess" target="_blank">goddess</a> associated with eternal energy. The name Kali comes from Kāla which means black, time, death, lord of death, <a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/wiki/Shiva" target="_blank">Shiva</a>. Kali means "the black one". Since Shiva is called Kāla - the eternal time, Kālī, his consort, also means "the Time" or "Death" (as in time has come). Hence, Kali is considered the goddess of time and change. Although sometimes presented as dark and violent, her earliest incarnation as a figure of annihilation still has some influence. Various <a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/wiki/Shakta" target="_blank">Shakta</a> Hindu cosmologies, as well as Shakta <a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/wiki/Tantra" target="_blank">Tantric</a> beliefs, worship her as the ultimate reality or <a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/wiki/Brahman" target="_blank">Brahman</a>. She is also revered as Bhavatarini (literally "redeemer of the universe"). Comparatively recent devotional movements largely conceive Kali as a benevolent <a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/wiki/Mother_goddess" target="_blank">mother goddess</a>.Kali is represented as the consort of Lord <a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/wiki/Shiva" target="_blank">Shiva</a>, on whose body she is often seen standing. She is associated with many other Hindu goddesses like <a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/wiki/Durga" target="_blank">Durga</a>, <a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/wiki/Bhadrakali" target="_blank">Bhadrakali</a>, <a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/wiki/Dakshayani" target="_blank">Sati</a>, <a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/wiki/Rudrani" target="_blank">Rudrani</a>, <a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/wiki/Parvati" target="_blank">Parvati</a> and <a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/wiki/Chamunda" target="_blank">Chamunda</a>. She is the foremost among the <a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/wiki/Mahavidya" target="_blank">Dasa Mahavidyas</a>, ten fierce Tantric goddesses.<a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/forum/#cite_note-0" target="_blank">[1]</a>Kālī is the feminine of kāla ("black, dark coloured").<a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/forum/#cite_note-1" target="_blank">[2]</a> Kāla primarily means "black," but also means "time." Kālī means "the black one" and also "time" or "beyond time." Kali is strongly associated with <a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/wiki/Shiva" target="_blank">Shiva</a>, and <a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/wiki/Shaivism" target="_blank">Shaivas</a> derive her feminine name from the masculine Kāla (an epithet of Shiva). The early Sanskrit dictionary, the Shabdakalpadrum, states: कालः शिवः । तस्य पत्नीति - काली । kālaḥ śivaḥ । tasya patnīti kālī - "Shiva is Kala, thus his wife is Kali."Other names include Kālarātri ("black night"), as described above, and Kālikā ("relating to time"). Coburn notes that the name Kālī can be used as a proper name, or as a description of color.<a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/forum/#cite_note-2" target="_blank">[3]</a>Kali's association with blackness stands in contrast to her consort, <a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/wiki/Shiva" target="_blank">Shiva</a>, whose body is covered by the white ashes of the cremation ground (Sanskrit: śmaśāna) in which he meditates, and with which Kali is also associated, as śmaśāna-kālī.Kālī is frequently confused with the word kali, as in <a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/wiki/Kali_Yuga" target="_blank">Kali Yuga</a> or the demon <a href="http://www.elakiri.lk/wiki/Kali_(Demon)" target="_blank">Kali</a>. However, the words Kālī ("black, time") and kali ("weak, crude, inarticulate") are etymologically unrelated, and the goddess Kālī is not associated with Kali Yuga in Hinduism.Origins</blockquote>

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