to you india people on a question?

Question

how do you all feel about the Goddess of Kali?i have studied some things about Her but i have never called on Her.can you tell me some things that you might have heard from your town?Please?
and thank you,
Ostara
btw,i am a Witch of the wicca tradition and practice magick through the Goddess of Hekate from Greece.
blessed be

these are gr8 answers to this question.but do you all call on her sometimes?or are you afraid of Her?like i said i practice wicca through dark though,and i havent called on Her.i was told to call on Her if i really need Her.She is more like a destructive Goddess.can destroy things and so forth.I more less have connections with Hekate.the Greek Goddess of dark.
thank you all so much for answering my question.and may the Goddess be with you all!
blessed be,
Ostara Witch )O(

Answer 1

Kali is a feminine form of the Sanskrit word "kala," meaning "time". It also means "black". Kali has therefore been translated variously as "She who is time," "She who devours time," "She who is the Mother of time," "She who is black," and "She who is black time". Kali's association with blackness stands in contrast to her consort, Shiva, who's dark body is covered by the white ashes of the cremation ground (Sanskrit: 'śmaśan') in which he meditates, and with which they are both associated, hence Kali's epithet 'Śmaśanâ.'

Kali properly transliterated from Sanskrit is Kālī (spelled with a "long" a), which should not be confused with the common Sanskrit word properly transliterated as Kali (spelled with a "short" a), meaning "terrible." They are grammatically unrelated, the first being nominal/ablative the latter adjectival. This "terrible" Kali is another similarly named deity who acts as the personification of Kali yuga. Frequent confusion comes in interpreting the Kali yuga," or "terrible age," one of the four great ages (yugas) of Hindu cosmology, as conflated with the goddess Kali. This is mostly due to her appearance, which is often described as terrible and fearsome. In fact, the goddess Kali should not be confused with kali yuga, as her name holds separate and unrelated meaning.

Answer 2

Kali was a cult, most popular around the end of the 19th century, when British rule forbid their worship, because her followers tended to kidnap and murder british people. The followers of Kali were known as thugees, from which we get the word "Thug,"

Indianna Jones and the Temple of Doom provides a rather cinematically exciting, but highly inaccurate version of the goddess Kali, and her Thugee followers, although they admit that the cult had been officially eradicated long before the era they were in.

Kali, and Thugees have no known connection to Indianna Jones,voodoo dolls, or mysterious glowing rocks, although they did apparently engage in child slavery, human sacrifice, and secret, underground worship... but probably not to the extent described in the movies.

Kali is one bad Mo'Fo. I'd leave her alone if I were you... unless you're trying to get someone killed.

Answer 3

goddess Kali is known as durga.
she is the wife of lord Shiva.
she is the powerful goddess.
praying her gives courage to the devotee she safeguards the devote as like mother.

Answer 4

It is believed that it protects the good people from their enemies.she is a protecting goddess.Hindus pray to keep them safe, so in many villages temples were built for her at the border of the village with a belief that it will protect the village and the people in the village from natural disasters and enemies.

Answer 5

I shall read and learn!