Name Susan Barton Young
School Deering High School
Project Title Kali: Cross-Cultural (Mis)Understandings

 

4. Yet another website links Kali to all the other "dark goddess" who symbolize the danger of women's "repressed anger:"


I'm the bitch from hell.
I think you know me well.
I am the dark goddess
kali, hecate, lilith, morrigan, ereshkigal


Kali is the creator and the destroyer. She is depicted as one who cuts off the heads of men. Scary stuff! But this is a symbolic representation, it is not actually their Life she is after, simply their Ego.

The dark goddess lives in us all. Often suppressed and denied she will eventually leak out in hostility and sarcasm, with sly cutting digs, nagging, gossip and put downs.

http://www.yoni.com/bitch.shtml

This site was created by (Susan Barton Young) at the NEH Summer Institute "Cultures and Religions of the Himalayan Region," held at the College of the Holy Cross, Summer 2006