Wow!!! What a great story behind the temple! I didn’t know the missing details but I believe what you said and won’t ask for more (though it’s making me curious 👀). And no trek?! Amazing! Love the bridge, it seems like you’re entering another realm because the temple is separated from the main land (just my imagination though).
And wait, it’s so colorful! It looks really attention grabbing from a distance.
it felt like I left a part of my soul here just to come back and collect it only to experience it one more time.
Such a poetic way to say!
So, the missing part is after killing "Raktbeej" and other demons she got a little carried away and almost out of control. It was like she is going to end this universe itself and seeing this people rushed to her husband, Shiva, who is the "Devo Ka Dev" (God of Gods) himself and one of the prominent figures in Hindu culture. He lay down in Kali's path and she put her feet over Shiva which made her anger go away and calmed her. This also made her blood-soaked tongue come out of her mouth in embarrassment. This is the most iconic figure and she is represented in this form.
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She is represented holding a severed head and like a garland around her neck she has skulls. Pretty dramatic representation. And no wonder, she is worshiped by the Tantric (who performs 'Tantras' (Dark Magic, sort of )). I saw a lot of weapons being worshiped inside the temple; they were so cool! (Didn't took pictures just to maintain the decorum of the place)
And now you know the missing part!
Woah, this missing part is also something important! Yeah actually about worshipping weapons - I’m kinda confused why there’s such but okay, different culture.
We worship so many animate and inanimate objects, trees, mountains, rivers, stones basically all the nature and even humans does extra ordinary and touch a lot of lives. Totally different culture and belief system. No commandments, no one book, no compulsion to stay in the same religion, so many different ways to get to the same goal, no concept of conversion and no "my way/God is the only right way".
All this coming from a non-religious guy like me... (What a hypocrite! 😂)