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title: Kali
description: Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction.
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<div data-legacy-preserved> <p></p>&#10;&#10;&#10;<h2 id="kali">Kali</h2>&#10;<p>&#10;</p><figure class="commons-illustration" data-commons-id="76138281">
  <img src="/kali/resources/commons-76138281.jpg" width="1280" height="1457" alt="Kali in her shrine. Kalighat painting, India, 19th century. Cleveland Museum of Art. Anonymous author." loading="lazy" decoding="async">
  <figcaption>Kali in her shrine. Kalighat painting, India, 19th century. Cleveland Museum of Art. Anonymous author.<br>Source: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India,_Kalighat_painting,_19th_century_-_Two_Aspects_of_Kali-_Kali_Enshrined_-_1980.216.b_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wikimedia Commons</a>. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en" rel="license">CC0</a>.</figcaption>
</figure>&#10;Kali is the terrible and dark Hindu goddess of destruction. Consort of <a href="/en/303155/">Shiva</a>, she is sometimes depicted dancing upon him or carrying knives and spattered with the blood of her victims, from whom she wears a garland of severed hands.<p></p>&#10;<p>Kali is thus a cruel and implacable goddess.</p></div>