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Feeding the Enemy to the Goddess: War Magic in Śaiva Tantric Texts

Olga Serbaeva — 2022-03-24

Article · English · Open access

Serbaeva compares war-related ritual prescriptions in Sanskrit Śaiva Tantras, Purāṇas and manuals addressed to royal patrons. The study is especially useful for Kālī research because it presents and translates material from the Jayadrathayāmala, including the Astrakālī chapter, alongside evidence from the Ṣaṭsāhasrasaṃhitā. The author tests the expectation that texts intended for tantric initiates

Source: Religions 13(4), 278 — publisher PDF via Wisdom Library

Original source or repository

Figure of Chamunda Devi

Unknown (Nepal/Tibet) — 17th-18th c.

Museum record · English · Open access

Gilt figure of the emaciated goddess Chamunda with a short museum essay.

Source: Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, acc. 621

Original source or repository

Folk-Tales of Bengal

Lal Behari Day — 1912 illustrated edition; first published 1883

Book · English · Open access

Kali is a significant figure in tales including Phakir Chand and The Man Who Wished to Be Perfect. The collection provides evidence of Bengali literary and popular storytelling about the goddess; its tales are not historical reports of events.

Source: gutenberg.org

Original source or repository

Formalised Possession — eHRAF record

Author unrecorded — Date not recorded

Reference · Not specified · Metadata only

From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18. Section: Parallel Editions and Access Records.

Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography

Original source or repository

From the Sequence of the Sun-Goddess (bhānavīkrama) to Time-Consumption (kālagrāsa): Some Notes on the Development of the Śākta Doctrine of the Twelve Kālīs

Aleksandra Wenta — Journal of Indian Philosophy 49 (2021), 725–757; DOI 10.1007/s10781-021-09488-9.

Article · English · Open access

A textual and historical reconstruction of the twelve-Kālī doctrine across early and later Krama/Trika witnesses. Wenta examines the evolving association of solar symbolism, the skeleton of Kālī and time-consuming consciousness, while describing unresolved manuscript transmission issues.

Source: Journal of Indian Philosophy (Springer Nature)

Original source or repository

Gateways to the Goddess: Devotion to Kali in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Nicole C. Petersen — 2014

Thesis · English · Open access

An honors thesis comparing Kali devotion across Indian and North American settings. Petersen combines attention to sacred relationships, sensory practice, and the social circumstances of worship with a discussion of how religious traditions are reinterpreted across cultures. The work is relevant to contemporary temple life and Western engagements with Kali, including the differences between preser

Source: Hamline University

Original source or repository

Gender, Space and Performance: A Study of the Visual Narratives of Kodungallur Bharani Festival

Nimisha K. Jayan — July 2020

Dissertation · English · Open access

This doctoral study examines the Kodungallur Bharani festival at the Bhadrakali temple in central Kerala through performance, gender and spatial analysis. Its chapters move from the festival’s historical narratives to ritual conflict, embodied performance, spectatorship and ritual language. The research foregrounds participants and the social inequalities negotiated through their actions, rather t

Source: University of Calicut

Original source or repository

Gniewne oblicze Kali. Mit, ikonografia, rytuał

Małgorzata Sacha — 2005

Article · Polish · Open access

A focused Polish study of Kali’s anger across myth, canonical imagery and ritual. Sacha compares Purāṇic portrayals of destructive fury with Tantric interpretations of purifying power, then considers sacrifice, confrontation and devotional surrender as responses to the goddess. Useful for comparative iconography and interpretations of fierce divinity, rather than as primary evidence for the dates

Source: Studia Religiologica, Jagiellonian University; institutional repository copy

Original source or repository

God as Mother

Pravrajika Vivekaprana — 2002

Article · English · Open access

Develops Divine Mother worship through attention, image and relationship, culminating in an extended discussion of why Ramakrishna chose Kali for modern life and its mixture of creation, destruction, goodness and suffering.

Source: Vedanta, Ramakrishna Vedanta Centre UK, 2002

Original source or repository

God As Mother

Swami Chidananda — 1991 fourth edition; lectures 1953; free web edition 1999

Book · English · Open access

Ten Navaratri lectures on the Divine Mother, including extended discussion of Mahakali, destruction, fierce imagery, liberation, and the Devi Mahatmya.

Source: The Divine Life Society

Original source or repository

God’s Play and the Problem of Evil

John Schlenck — 2014

Article · English · Open access

Examines divine play and suffering through Kali’s mixed benign and terrifying iconography, contrasts Ramakrishna’s and Vivekananda’s understandings of Kali’s play, and discusses Ramprasad’s Mother-devotion.

Source: American Vedantist

Original source or repository

Goddess

The Pluralism Project, Harvard University — n.d.

Reference · English · Open access

A brief institutional glossary definition introducing the goddess within Hindu traditions and naming Kali and Durga among her manifestations. Its complete text is available, but its extent is only a short reference entry. It is suitable as an introductory aid for visitors new to goddess traditions; it does not substitute for a historical study, a primary scripture, or a detailed account of Kali’s

Source: The Pluralism Project, Harvard University

Original source or repository

Goddess Kali — Collection Object 849495

Author unrecorded — Date not recorded

Museum record · English · Metadata only

A Kali collection record already referenced by the temple. Follow the museum record for its authoritative object title, maker, dating, provenance, and image rights; these have not been transcribed into the catalogue.

Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Original source or repository