[hoosiermama]

Here's another tidbit:

While someone unfamiliar with the Shakti worship may perceive Kali's images as equally terrible without making the slightest distinction between them, the Hindu distinguishes a benign Kali (dakshina) from a fearful Kali (smashan) by the position of her feet. If Kali steps out with her right foot and holds the sword in her left hand, she is a Dakshina Kali. If she steps out with her left foot and holds the sword in her right hand, she is the terrible of the Mother, the Smashan Kali of the cremation ground.

[JudyB1938]

All I kept thinking as I was reading that webpage is this ... no wonder the Left is called "the left"! And I'm being serious.

But back to the left foot ... since our country is being third-worlded and becoming religious-homogeneous, we'd better stop keeping our heads in the sand and laughing at other people's beliefs. They are creeping into our main line of rational thought in very insidious ways.

BLACK MAGIC WOMAN ... HOCUS POCUS ... DEATH TO THE INFIDEL

"You put your left foot out
You put your left foot in
You put your left foot out
Then you shake it all about
That's why you do when you do
the Hokey-Pokey."

Dance, anyone?

[juzcuz]

Don't know about KALI
But I've been studing lately about the triple Moon goddess (Spiral symbol-Pagan-Sicilian -Italian-GK). Mother earth, demeter (initiator), the maiden, Persephone- child). The Crone, wisdom-(sponsor-). It's really interesting because Persephone gets abducted by (Hades- 'Dehesa')-god of the underworld) The entire (GK)tradgedy is is associated with the festival "Imbolic"..

This is a new and shocking to me because, I never would have imagined it all.