(I am reading this before Asura, since my character is named Kali in my Storybook. I wanted to get some research about the actual Kali to supplement my stories with.)
(Kali)
Part A:1. Concerning Symbols
- Twilight, the space between day and night
- Light through a mask
- Consumed in fire
- Dissolve in an ocean
- Shadows
- The shadow of the soul
- Bringer of sanctity and peace
- Hide and seek
2. The Vision of Siva
- The beauty of snowpeaks and moonlight
- Beauty imagry "the great Mother, were clothed in raiment of green, broidered with birds and flowers and fruits, and veiled in blue, adorned with many jewels"
- More lovely description: "Something white and austere and pure; something compelling quiet; something silent and passionless, and eternally alone."
- Concept of duality. Light and shadow, attraction and repulsion.
- Anthromorphic
- (This isn't quite what I thought it would be.)
- Being the ideal householder, ideal judge, ideal ruler.
- "To him she is all beauty."
3. Two Saints of Kali
- Othello slays Desdemona
- The mention of the Divine Comedy was interesting to me. She basically said aid you need to know a lot about Florence and such in order to understand the Divine Comedy, and she's not wrong. I am currently taking a class over the entire Comedy and it really does require a lot of information about medieval Florence, specifically in relation to politics, and there are also many historical figures, mostly classical figures you need to understand as well.
- Her toy is a kite.
Additional Notes about Kali:
- Goddess of time, creation, change, preservation, and destruction)
- Goddess of empowerment
- Mother Goddess
- Associated with darkness
- Kali means time, but also means black.
- Kali will "devour all."
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