Talk:Kali (Demon)
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[edit] Kali Demon's "Appearance"
A person from the ip address 70.53.92.79 added this sentence to the Kali (Demon) page:
"Another manifestation is that of a bloated, ugly woman, with hair like that of a horse, with terible stench and powers to kill through touch and utterance of certain words of power."
I think this person might be confusing Kali-Demon with an odd avatar of the Kali-Goddess. Then again, I might be wrong. If someone knows more about this alternate Kali appearance please write me!!! (!Mi luchador nombre es amoladora de la carne y traigo el dolor! 04:22, 20 July 2006 (UTC))
[edit] Mix up
I originally got the Sanskrit name for Kali-demon off of the Kaliyuga page. It turns out that the Sanskrit name on the Kali-Goddess page has the same spelling. This is wrong. From my understanding, these names have different sounding a's. So this means, someone messed up on the Kaliyuga page. It should be the Kali of the Kali-Demon, not the goddess. Here, check this out:
- "Q. I have begun reading your edition of Bhagavad-gita. It's wonderful, as I knew it would be. I came across a footnote that I have a question about. When describing Kali you say she is "the personification of evil who presides over the present age--Kali-yuga." I wasn't aware of this aspect of Mother Kali--that she personifies evil. My understanding has been that she is an aspect of the Divine Mother who was born out of the third eye of Mother Durga to kill demonic forces that none of the other gods could defeat. I was also under the impression that her purpose is one of love (maybe you could call it the ultimate "tough love") and that she slaughters the false ego and enables one to find one's true nature so that one may find complete love of God. Please elaborate on your knowledge of Kali Ma.
- A. Kali spelled with a long 'a' and Kali with a short 'a' are different Sanskrit words indicating different persons. Kali with a long 'a' is the Goddess wife of Siva, who, as you say, is often worshipped with a view to dissolve one's material ego. Kali spelled with a short 'a' is the personification of the age of quarrel (Kali-yuga). Duryodhana of Mahabharata and Bhagavad-gita fame is considered to be a partial incarnation of Kali, the personification of this degraded age, not Goddess Kali." - ([Bhagavad-gita Leads to Vrndavana)
Hopefully this has cleared things up a bit. So now all I need is the "correct" Sanskrit term for the Kali-Demon.(!Mi luchador nombre es amoladora de la carne y traigo el dolor! 04:55, 20 July 2006 (UTC))
- Never mind, my bad. कलि and काली. I can't tell which one has the "long" and "Short" a. Maybe its the one with the shortest loop. I can't read sanskrit. (!Mi luchador nombre es amoladora de la carne y traigo el dolor! 05:51, 20 July 2006 (UTC))
