See when you see Kali Mata? you must think wtf and she is a statue/idol? yes to the untrained eye it appears so
Name: Kali is so called because She devours
Kala (time) and then resumes Her own dark formlessness. She is the embodiment of three
gunas (qualities of nature): She creates with Her
sattva guna (quality of goodness and purity), preserves with
rajas (passion and activity), and destroys with
tamas (ignorance and inertia).
Complexion: Her complexion is deep blue, like the sky. As the sky is limitless, so is She. From a distance one sees the ocean water as blue, but it is colorless and transparent when examined closely.
Crescent above the forehead: She is the giver of liberation.
Earrings: Images of two little babies hang from Her ears; this means that She favors childlike devotees.
Smiling face: She is ever-blissful.
Tongue: Kali's white teeth symbolize sattva or serenity; Her red tongue, rajas, or activity; and Her drunkenness: tamas or inertia. The meaning: tamas can be conquered by rajas, and rajas by sattva.
Full breast: She is the nourisher of all beings.
Terrible form: She is the mother of the universe as well as the destroyer. When a mother spanks her child, it does not mean that she is cruel; she disciplines her child for its own good.
Necklace: It consist of fifty skulls that represent the fifty letters of the Sanskrit alphabet, the origin of sound. She is
Shabda Brahman (Sound-Brahman), or Logos-the source of creation.
Two right arms: The upper right arm grants fearlessness, and the lower right arm offers boons. She protects Her children from danger, and She fulfills their desires.
Two left arms: She holds a sword with the upper left arm and a severed head with the lower. She can cut human bondage with the sword of knowledge, and She imparts wisdom to the head, the receptacle of supreme wisdom.
Naked form: She is called
digambari, "clad in space." She is infinite, so no finite dress can cover Her.
Waist: Kali's waist is encircled with a girdle of severed human arms that represent action. All human actions and their results go to the Divine Mother. At the end of a cycle all souls merge with Kali; during creation they again evolve with their respective karmas.
Shiva is under Her feet: Shiva and Shakti are always together. He is the changeless aspect of the Supreme, and She the apparently changing aspect of the same. Shiva is pure cosmic consciousness, and Kali is cosmic energy. No creation is possible without their union. Siva cannot manifest without the power of Kali, and Kali cannot function without the consciousness of Shiva.
Dakshina Kali and Vama Kali: If Her right foot is forward, She is
Dakshina Kali (benign form); and if Her left foot is forward,
Vama Kali (terrible form).
See in the old times people were simple and made images (statues) but when you read the texts and see the true meaning it is far deeper
What is interesting is that the Story of the Great Flood which is mentioned in Abrahamic religions is also mentioned in a Hindu text but slightly different version.
If anyone can share with me the Islamic creation I would enjoy reading it as I do not know this
I know in the Bible it says 6 days but one Muslim said it is 6 parts in Quran?
Islam also says there is 99 names for Allah and in Hinduism also there is many names of the one
