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Kali, the Primordial Mother Goddess of Hindu Tantric tradition, has her origins in India's archaic matriarchal culture. Her radiant blackness protected the dark-skinned tribes who worshiped her and inspired fear and dread in their enemies. She was, originally, a warrior goddess, worshipped with blood sacrifice and offerings of flesh and liquor. She was always viewed as all-powerful, awesome, as mysterious as night, fierce, passionately sensual and demanding. Yet to her worshippers she was always the all-merciful Protectress, filled with sublime love and compassion, a Granter-of-boons. Above all, Dark Kali was and still is Kali Ma, "Kali the Mother", the Cosmic Female Power, always available for Her devotees, ready to remove their suffering, their negative Karma, their fear of time (Kala) and death, always ready to bestow bliss and liberation.
Variations on the name Kali for female divinity can be found in many ancient cultures outside India, which suggests that in the distant past a common or related matriarchal religion pervaded much of the world. For example, in pre-historic Ireland people worshipped a powerful goddess known as Kele (her priestesses were known as Kelles), in ancient Finland there was the all-powerful goddess Kal-ma, in the Sinai region of the Middle East there was the goddess Kalu, and in ancient Greece an aspect of the goddess was known as Kalli. It is likely that these very similar names for the Great Goddess in different cultures was the result of the export of spiritual ideas and practices "out of India" prior to the early invasions by light-skinned Aryans (probably around 1500 BC.)...
