Week 15 Reading A: "Seven Secrets of the Goddess:" "Kali's Secret"

Kali

Many goddesses before Kali shared her name or attributes associated with her
Associated with unbridled sexuality and female power

represented in art as naked, with an outstretched tongue, and unbound hair, often sitting or standing on the dominated Shiva

Proto-Kali (origins of modern Kali)

Dirgha-Jihvi

see as a threat by Indra

sends a young man named Sumitra to overpower her
she rejects him because he only has one manhood and she has "many vulvas seeking satisfaction"
Indra, in turn, gives the young multiple manhoods

this satisfies Dirgha-Jihvi

the two "make love"

while Dirgha Jihvi is pinned down during sex Sumitra uses the opportunity to kill her

identified as a proto-kali because of representations depicting an outstretched tongue and unbridled sexuality

"male anxiety before female sexual and reproductive prowess"

by 1000 BCE Kali emerges out of the collective

starts being seen as an independent goddess
"the perfect most primal representation of the Goddess"
some address this Kali as Maha-Kali to separate her from other Kalis

Storytelling Notes: I kind of want to do something with the Dirgha-Jihvi and Sumitra story. Like most of the goddesses represented in these videos so far this goddess is destroyed because a male feels threatened by her female power. The fact that Sumitra strikes down Dirgha-Jihvi during a sex act just kind of pissed me off, honestly. If I chose to rewrite this story believe that some changes to this will be made.
Bibliography: Seven Secrets of the Goddess by Devdutt Pattanaik (2016). Video.

(Kali from Skydoms Wiki)

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