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If you want Kali, read Tantric literature. I suggest "Aghori" by Vindumnalamna as a primer. I presume you're CM, so you probably won't jibe with the Kali-Ma as universal goddess model which is implicit to Tantra, but it might give you some ideas, not to mention dispel some of the "Temple of Doom" imagery surrounding Kali. While she indeed does have her more "terrible" aspects, I suggest you think of her as a stern, protective mother, which is how most Anand Margis, Nath Siddhas and Aghoris would characterize their relationships with Ma.
If Setite lit is characterizing Kali as "spooky uber-destruction goddess" their post-Victorian slip is showing. English and other Christian-enculturated scholars have been particularly harsh and misunderstanding of the image of Ma [both in the sense of the artistic depictions, which are pretty gruesome to Western aesthetic, and the larger role she plays]. This interp was profoundly influenced by the fear illicited by the Thugi ecstatics, who represented only a small and twisted offshooting of Tantra and the worship of Ma, but is now presented as the whole of it. |
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