Fair is foul, and foul is fair...

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Kali is more than just the Crone. Even at her Croney-est (as Chamunda,

demon-eater,wrinkled and emaciated, with skeletal limbs and hanging dugs)

Kali is more than just the Crone.

 

BUT -- when portrayed in the Tri-Shakti (the energies of Brahma, Vishnu,

Maheshvara), well, Lakshmi is the ever-giving abundant Mother; Sarasvati

is the averse-to-marriage, wisdom-inspiring Maiden; which leaves Kali

with... the Crone.

 

Just limiting things to Shiva-Shakti, Durga is both warrior and eternal

virgin; Parvati is Tantric Consort and Ganesha's Mommy (despite being

forever, like, teenaged); Kali is it all wrapped in one -- berserker

warrior, dominatrix consort, Mother Death (and Rebirth)...

 

"Time, Time, Time.../

See what's become of me?/

As I looked around /

For my possibilities.../

I was so hard to please./

I look around/

The leaves are brown/

and the sky/

is a hazy shade of winter./"

-- Paul Simon (& Garfunkle)

 

-- Len/ Kalipadma

Enticed is the bee of my mind/

By the black lotus feet of my Divine Mother./

 

 

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 01:18:51 -0000 "Scott Hutton <hmshutton"

<hmshutton writes:

> Len, Hon -

>

> A few years ago, in ordinary consciousness, I had a vision of a

> Crone the vivid memory of which, to this day, is as real as any

> other of my conscious memories. She was dressed in rags, before a

> delipidated cabin somewhere in the woods near the mountains and was

> gently stirring a faintly steaming cauldron. She looked for a nano-

> second deep in to my eyes - her eyes were the most beautiful slate-

> blue I ever saw anywhere, ethereal and indestructible all at once -

> the nano-second glance itself was/is a life changer. She made not a

> sound; the silence was, as it were, audible.

>

> Can you connect this vision up to Kali? I can't. But Instinct

> tells me time and again this was Kali.

>

> (BTW, that first scene of Macbeth...the three witches...Gus Hoo???)

>

 

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