Re: Many-armed Hindu Goddess?

You are right most part except the hand part...
Kali has more than 4 hands and more than one head
http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/southasiacenter/Newsletter/99Spring/Kali.gif

http://libbagillum.com/webphotos/kali2.jpg is a more subtle version.
http://www.anywitchway.com/Statues/kali.jpg
http://games.world.co.uk/shades/inshades/pics/kali.jpg
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/tasvir/kali.jpg
http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/comp/kali.jpg

But I have also seen 4 hand and single head versions of her.
Kali is the most popular Godess/Deity and workshipped by Hindus!


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HTH



"Zotiel" <zot...@net-link.net> wrote in message
news:3c3cb1e9$0$37097$bba...@news.net-link.net...
> I am butting into this, and I did not get a chance to see if there were
any
> more replies... I am the Head Builder on a mud & recently got a request to
> add in Kali. I did a BIT of research on her (and only her, not Shiva or
> Ganeesha) Kali does have 4 arms...her is a short desc...
>
> "Her idol is black besmeared with blood; she has red eyes, four arms with
> blood-stained hands, 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. In one hand she has a scimitar, in
> another the head of a demon which she holds by his hair, the third hand is
> spread flatly open bestowing a blessing and in the fourth she holds
another
> weapon, usually a spear."
>
>      ________            __                   ___
>     /\_____  \          /\ \__   __          /\_ \
>     \/____// /      ___ \ \  _\ /\_\     ___ \//\ \
>          // /      / __`\\ \ \/ \/\ \   / __`\ \ \ \
>         // /_____ /\ \_\ \\ \ \_ \ \ \ /\  __/  \_\ \_
>         /\_______\\ \____/ \ \__\ \ \_\\ \____\ /\____\
>         \/_______/ \/___/   \/__/  \/_/ \/____/ \/____/
>     Dark Haven's Master of Edifice zot...@net-link.NOT
>
> P.S. if ya wanna check out a smaller mud go to bb3.betterbox.net:7100
>
> Anonymous <gue...@anonymous.com> wrote in message
> news:a11662$63o$1...@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk...
> >
> > Bill Taylor wrote in message ...
> > >I forget her name...  not Kali, is it?
> >
> > No; you're thinking of Shiva.
> >
> > >Has anyone got an ascii pic of her?
> > >
> > >TIA
> > >
> > >Here is someone else's Ganeesha...
> > >
> > >                     _.!._
> > >                    /O*@*O\
> > >                   <\@(_)@/>
> > >          ,;,   .--;`     `;--.   ,
> > >          O@O_ /   |d     b|   \ _hnn
> > >          | `/ \   |       |   / \` |
> > >          &&&&  :##;\     /;##;  &&&&
> > >          |  \ / `##/|   |##'  \ /  |
> > >          \   %%%%`</|   |#'`%%%%   /
> > >           `._|_ \   |   |'  / _|_.'
> > >             _/  /   \   \   \  \
> > >            / (\(     `.  `-._&&&&
> > >           (  ()##.    o`--.._`\-)
> > >            `-():`##########'()()()
> > >             /:::::/()`Y`()\:::::\
> > >             \::::( () | () )::::/
> > >              `"""`\().'.()/'"""`
> >
> > That's really good - who did that one ?
> >
> > --
> > Graeme Porter
> >
> >    -^-_  _
> >    / [_][_]_:_  Proud owner of a 1978
> >   /|  _||_  v   Pearl Fiberglass Shell kit
> >    | /    \ |
> > -=/=\\____//=\=jaa
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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