Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 · New York : H. Holt and Company · leaf 298
gre), with tongueof flame, may better interpret Kalis tongue. It is saidKali is pleased for a hundred years by the blood of a tiger ;for a thousand by that of a man; for a hundred thousandby the blood of three men. How are we to understand this dance of Death, and thefurther legend of her tossing… … Fig. i8.—Kali. personified in her spouse Siva. Her looks and legends 27S durgA. alike represent slaughter by human violence. May it notbe that Kali represents some period when the abhorrenceof taking life among a vegetarian people—a people, too,believing in transmigration—might have become a…
Demonology · Mythology · Occultism
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