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Kali as Parvati

As with mostmythical stories, they usually occur when the demons and gods are at war. the gods are the lighter aspects of yourself and the demons, the darker side of your personality.

so one day a long long time ago, or maybe not so long ago as this story is happening right now… a demon has appeared in the world who can only be killed by a woman. Shiva, the transformer asks his beautiful wife, Parvati to enter his body and transform herself by drinking poison that Shiva holds in his throat (from the story of the Churning of the milky ocean). By doing this Parvati takes all the negativity of the collective consciousness and turns it into wrath and she emerges as Kali blazing. Kali as Parvati goes to work, she goes to the root of the problem, to let the truth prevail. She quickly dispatches the Demon but becomes so intoxicated by battle lust she refuses to return to a beautiful form as a devoted wife Parvati. instead she dances in the forest wildly with such force she threatens to bring down the world. She goes on and on and one

the local sages become worried and  ask Shiva to help. yet even he is unable to get Kali’s attention. finally he challenges her to the dance, he begins his own tandava which is so intense he creates craters in the earth and shakes all the planets from their orbits causing so much destruction that it arouses Kali to come to her senses and returns to a normal form as Parvati.

This version of the story shows Shiva as the dominant partner and the Goddess Kali his consort. it expresses the male terror of the uncontrollable side of the feminine power, and the masculine to show his strength in order to control.  E.g. Shiva tames Kali by acting so wildly that she has to calm down. I also feels it reveals how as modern day women our masculine side is more dominant to our feminine powerful essence, that doesn’t need to go wild or control, rather pulsate and dance freely.

Kali Ma

 

In another version of this story Shiva transforms himself into a baby,  as kali as parvati dances wildily. this arouses Kali’s mothering instinct