The gandharva Kali was in love with ''Varuthini'' and had been rejected by her in the past.
Durukti (Sanskrit: दुरुक्ति, romanized: Durukti) is the sister and wife of the asura Kali in Hindu mythology.
Kali is also often portrayed standing over her husband and consort, Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction, with one foot on his leg and another on his chest.
Kali and Shiva have an influential association. He is her consort; she is his wife. As previously mentioned, Kali is the feminine form of Kala, which is one of Shiva's nicknames. Kali is Shiva's shakti (power), and he could not act without her assistance.
Kali is often shown standing with her right foot on Shiva's chest. This represents an episode where Kali was out of control on the battlefield, such that she was about to destroy the entire universe.
Shiva lying at Kali's feet also symbolises the supremacy of Nature over man.
Finally her three eyes represent the sun, moon, and fire, with which she is able to observe the three modes of time: past, present and future. This attribute is also the origin of the name Kali, which is the feminine form of 'Kala', the Sanskrit term for Time.
Kali is the quintessential embodiment of shakti, female power. She emerges as an independent goddess around 1000 BCE and evolves as a controversial character: she is a scary, bloodthirsty embodiment of destruction, and the ultimate protector against evil.
In benevolent aspects, he is depicted as an omniscient Yogi who lives an ascetic life on Mount Kailash as well as a householder with his wife Parvati and his two children, Ganesha and Kartikeya.
She is also said to have been born when the goddess Parvati shed her dark skin; the sheath became Kali—who is also called Kaushika, “The Sheath”—leaving Parvati in the form of Gauri (“The Fair One”).
Kali symbolizes the death of the ego in the ultimate goal of human life in Hindu dharma — moksha (liberation from the cycle of rebirth). Kali is the embodiment of time (kaala) and the female form of Shiva (Kaala). Her name literally means “she who is black”.
Kali emerges around 1000 BCE. Mentioned initially in the Atharva Veda (circa 1200 to 1000 BCE), she was not the individual goddess known today. Instead, she was a black tongue, one of the seven tongues belonging to Agni, the god of fire. It was over 400 years before Kali emerged as a goddess in her own right.
According to popular folklore, after killing Raktabīja and most of his entire army, the goddess Kali went on to kill all creatures in a fury, but was timely intervened by Shiva who laid himself in her path.
She is represented as loving, caring and benevolent and hence referred to as Kali Ma (mother). Kali is believed to have existed in tribal culture before she was integrated into the Vedic, or orthodox, Hindu tradition. She was also imbibed in Tantric practices and rituals.
Ifrit is the perfect summon to use against Shiva because Ifrit's attacks exploit Shiva's weaknesses. While Ifrit will attack Shiva automatically, you and your party can use your own ATB Points to make Ifrit use more powerful fire attacks against the ice queen.
Birth of Goddess Kali in Devi Mahatmya
In Devi Mahatmya, Goddess Kali is said to have emerged from an angry forehead of Goddess Durga. In this form she is believed to be the manifestation of Durga's anger. She vanquishes Demons Chanda and Munda and later the demon Raktabija.
It is also common for Hindu deities to have multiple wives. Out of the Holy Hindu Trinity, Shiva is paired with Parvati and Ganga, while Brahma is married with both, Savitri and Gayatri. Vishnu also is said to be associated with both Bhudevi and Shridevi.
Shiva and Vishnu
In Vaishnavism and Shaivism, God, Vishnu or Shiva respectively, is personified as male. God, however, transcends gender in these sub-schools, and the male form is used as an icon to help focus the Puja (worship). The use of icons is not restricted to male forms. It takes various forms and shapes.
Ardhanareeshvara is a combination of three words “Ardha,” “Nari,” and “Ishwara” means “half,” “woman,” and “lord,” respectively, which when combined means the lord whose half is a woman. It is believed that the God is Lord Shiva and the woman part is his consort Goddess Parvati or Shakti.
Kali is a young vampire who suffers from not being able to live in the light.
Kali's name derives from the Sanskrit meaning 'she who is black' or 'she who is death', but she is also known as Chaturbhuja Kali, Chinnamastā, or Kaushika.
Other versions of the birth of Kali involve the goddess Parvati. In one version, Parvati sheds her dark skin. This skin becomes Kali and gives her an alternate name, Kaushika, meaning the Sheath. Parvati here is left as Gauri, the Fair One.
After killing the demon Daruka, Kali drank his blood. The blood drove her mad with bloodlust. She went around the world killing at random. The gods begged Shiva to stop her.
“Her sickle raised in a right hand attached to one of her ten arms, Kali, in frenzy, shows her tongue when (perhaps by a shout from the wings) she is made aware that she is preparing to go for the throat of her divine spouse Siva, who, like Kali, is a god of destruction. Showing her tongue, a sign of shame.
Classic Kali is the basis for all of her depictions. She has blue or black skin, wears a necklace of human skulls and a skirt of severed arms, and holds a human head in one of her four hands. This represents the sacrifice of human ego needed to access her cosmic knowledge and protection.