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Recieved: 2003/10/15 02:51
Subject: [K-list] Godesses
From: Rich

http://www.jassmine.com/home.html

This website is very beautiful. I get the impression that some goddesses are
born in mythology or perhaps people's stories and thoughts coming to life
over time.

Some goddesses of war seem created to make belief of something to provide
motive. I noticed this for Badb.

I particular liked to read about the Aphrodite goddess of 'erotic love,
beauty, fertility, marriage, the sea and vegetation.'


And for Kali : http://www.gotojassminesitenow.com/goddesses/kali.html

It's hard to pull some fair quotes as its all so beautifully written and
informative. With risk of the moderators shuffling their feet, I'll draw
some quotes and make comment.


"Her worship, therefore, consists of fertility festivals as well as
sacrifices (animal and human)"

Sacrifice. This seems to me to be symbolic rather than something that is
necessary. Like surrender. Giving up. Giving back. Give life to get life.
Sacrifice is powerful imagery in my mind. It would serve as a powerful
marker or 'hook' for a basis of how I live.


"It has been said that Kali is "the divine Shakti representing both the
creative and destructive aspects of nature", and as such she is a goddess
who both gives life and brings death. Clothed only with the veil of space,
her blue-black nakedness symbolizes the eternal night of non-existence, a
night that is free of any illusion and distinction. Kali as such is pure and
primary reality (the enfolded order in modern physics); formless void yet
full of potential. It is therefore not surprising that this goddess is also
the foremost among the Mahavidya, the ten most powerful and important
goddesses of the Indian pantheon."


I read elsewhere that the ten other goddesses are sometimes shown to
surround Kali. Kali seems primary and the most powerful. I find it
interesting how the other goddesses came to be (was it peoples
interpretations and segmentation of aspects of Kali?) and how are they
interacted with if they need to be at all.


"In short, we can say that Shakti as goddess and symbol represents the
Ultimate Female Principle of Energy and Motion without which there could be
no manifested universe. Her name is in fact a feminine noun of India's
sacred language which, in our terms, means "(creative) energy" and/or
"power"."


I found it interesting to find Calcutta was named after Kali and that there
is suggestion also of an ancient worldwide common matriarchal 'Kali' based
religion.


"Meditate with me on Kali the dark void and manifest what you will."

:)


Rich
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