Talk: Kali
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"Her poor reputation in the West came from the cult of the Thuggee, Muslims who took the goddess Kali as their deity."
What???
I don't know how much it is responsible for the Western image of Kali, but the thugees did exist. The thugee (from which we get the word 'thug') were a secretive Hindu religious group active around Calcutta, who murdered people, until the British destroyed them. But (AFAIK) they definitely weren't Muslims -- they were Hindus. -- SJK
I've found a few websites saying they were Muslims. But by everything I know, if they took Kali as their deity, they weren't Muslims.
Although Kali is standing on an inert Shiva (her husband), he is not dead, just inert. And the severed head she's holding is that of a demon, not Shiva's. If there are any sites that talk about Shiva's corpse or Shiva's severed head, let me know. (I haven't edited any pages as I'm a new user. I just went through the Talkpages rules which say never to edit another user's words.)
Jay 21:45 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)
The author of the original text has not commented even after 1 month of my queries. Hence I have made the updations.
Jay 11:26, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Kali-ma seems to be a stub, should it be a redirection page to Kali? -- Logotu 20:31, 19 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- ya, merge and redirect. Jay 06:27, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)
