the
Hindu goddess of
death and
destruction. Her idol is black, besmeared with blood; she has
red eyes, four arms, matted hair, huge fang-like teeth and a protruding tongue that drips with blood. She wears a necklace of skulls, earrings of corpses and is girdled with serpents. So any
time they omit doing a now-I'm-supposed-to, they
consider themselves in trouble because that's against the
mores of the society of thuggees, with Kali herself
ready to take them apart as they
step into the underworld, you see.
-See Checks, Withholds (10 Jan. 62) the
Hindu goddess of
death and
destruction. Her idol is black, besmeared with blood; she has
red eyes, four arms, matted hair, huge fang-like teeth and a protruding tongue that drips with blood. She wears a necklace of skulls, earrings of corpses and is girdled with serpents.
the
Hindu goddess of
death and
destruction. She is depicted as being black and four-armed with
red palms and eyes. She has matted hair and fanglike teeth. Her tongue, face and breasts are blood-stained. She wears a necklace of skulls, earrings of corpses and is girdled with serpents. The thugs, who terrorized many parts of
India until they were suppressed by the British in the nineteenth century, practiced a
ritual of robbery by deceit and strangulation in the name of Kali. In
India, on the darkest night of November, goats are slain as sacrifices to her. See also
thuggee in this glossary.