kali









kali


noun Hinduism.

  1. the wife of Shiva and the malevolent form of the Mother Goddess.

noun

  1. another name for saltwort (def. 1)

noun

  1. the Hindu goddess of destruction, consort of Siva. Her cult was characterized by savagery and cannibalism

a name of Devi, the Hindu mother-goddess, in her death-goddess aspect, 1798, from Sanskrit kali, literally “the black one,” fem. of kalah “blue-black, black,” from a Dravidian language. Also taken as the fem. of kala “time” (as destroyer). She is portrayed as black-skinned, blood-smeared, and wearing a necklace of skulls and a girdle of snakes.

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