It is believed that she goes into the darkness with us, and for us, to swallow our sins, worries and concerns. The Goddess of Kali has many different names. The name Kali is derived from the Hindu word that means "time” and that also means "black". Kali means darkness but she takes away the darkness. Kali also means she who is beyond time.
Reaction to Kali The goddess Kali is an influential figure in the Hindu religion, her name originating from the Sanskirt root Kal which means One of the most famous stories of Kali was how she helped Durga stop the demon Raktabija, whose blood produced duplicates of itself. Kali stopped Raktabija by drinking its blood and eating its duplicates. According to David Kinsley, writer of theTantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas , Kali is first mentioned in Hinduism as an actual goddess around 600 CE, in which theses texts "usually place her on the periphery of Hindu society or on the battlefield.” Today Kali serves as a goddess to many people, regardless of caste, as they gather together at shrines and temples to honor and offer sacrifices to Kali. She is often thought of as a goddess of destruction and death, but many believe that she is only perceived in such a negative way because she is misunderstood. Therefore, many worshipers see Kali as the “eternal light” who only destroys ignorance, sin, and decay.
The Woman of Willendorf has hair covering the face in order not to distract from the main religious focus of fertility. The Snake Goddess has an exposed
Carol Ann Duffy’s retelling of the Medusa myth turns the idea of a monstrous woman who can transform all into stone just by one glance into an extended metaphor for how jealousy can convert how an individual sees the world, her lover and ultimately herself. Whereas the mythic Medusa was a threat to all, the Medusa figure in this poem is both powerful yet vulnerable at the same time: the person who is most destroyed by her jealousy is her. The poem is structured into six line stanzas, all save for the first stanza and the last line. The listing technique in the opening line, ‘A suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy’ shows how one negative thought unchecked soon grows into something more sinister. The repetition of the ‘a’ draws attention to how the nouns escalate from minor to major emotions.
I believe the snake symbolized freedom to Delia, a new life. Throughout this obstacle Delia was unharmed and did not budge. I believe she stood her ground to prove to Sykes that she is no fool. Just how Sykes believed the house to be his, Delia knew the house was hers. The snake who was supposed to be Delia’s demised turned around and bit Sykes in the neck.
The Queen is one of the most significant characters in this story. She sets the tone, since there is great emphasis in the deep loves she holds for her daughter and the reader gets a sense of her over protectiveness. The queen wants her daughter to carry a part of her on her journey, in attempt to transfer her own wisdom and self empowerment. She opts to prick her finger and spills 3 drops of her blood on the cloth which she gives to the princess to take with her. When the maid first betrays the princess the drops of blood begin to speak to the princess like a conscious would inside of one’s mind: “If you’re poor mother knew of this, her heart would break”.
It will not be the least hardship to me; without you, even heaven is hell” (Lawall, 901). Another charactertic that makes Sita a great example for India women is that she was very loyal to Rama. A demon named Ravana, the ruler of Lanka abducted Sita to avenge the deaths of Khara and Dusana who were killed by Rama and Laksmana. Ravana offered Sita his life and his kingdom of Lanka if she would agree to marry him. Sita said “O, demon!
The poet uses sibilance between her ‘filthy snakes’ as hair and the hissing and spitting of her thoughts to exaggerate the link between the Greek goddess (associated with snakes) and the speaker. During the narrator of Les grand Seigneurs’ early relationships she believed she was higher than men and ruled over them and describes herself as ‘their queen’. Although she once enjoyed this, it may have led her to believe it would always be that way, so when she married it emphasised the contrast between married and single life and her role in them. Her belief of the permanence of the role of men in her life is shown through the poet’s use of metaphorical descriptions such as ‘castellated towers’ and ‘sailing ships’ which are both stable and solid. In contrast to the previously confident authoritive figure in Les Grand Seigneurs the narrator of Medusa describes herself as fragrant and young suggesting naivety and vulnerability towards men at the end of the poem regarding her earlier life.
Within Dickinson’s poem I died for beauty.. beauty and truth underpin the essence of her message of sacrificing yourself in the name you desire to be recognised as. The persona Dickinson has adopted has been represented as an image of beauty which entails the assumption of intense feeling of passion and emotion, an essential truth about life. At the same time, a contrasting image of death is implemented with the ultimate power being nature, claiming us no matter what we may do. This image is further reinforced with the paradoxical ideas of unity and disintegration with ‘moss’ being represented as the agent of claiming our identity in the end as being a part of the human condition. We learn that with the gift of life and living comes death and decay, something we cannot hide from although from this, connectedness and unity emerges.
The head Gods and Goddesses marry each other; they also give birth to each other. Gods are associated with the sky and the Goddess is associated with the earth. Gods are usually a depiction in the role of a social political setting; whereas Goddesses roles relates to reproduction (Leonard & McClure, 2004). For example, a female deity is the earth or a reproductive cycle, and the male deity is a vision of the offices he holds or the various roles he plays (Leonard & McClure, 2004). The powers that Goddesses have are magnificent, disabling the intimacy with human lovers.