NOT H.R. btw folks but you ever tried snorting 'em?
I am off to Durga Bhavan on the outskirt of Birmingham City which is the 2nd biggest Durga Temple in Europe so it's big. They have a Kali Shrine there which is RARE to find outside of India. Kali is one of the Das Mahavidyas which in simple terms means she is one of The 10 Tantric Mothers & part of The Shakti / Tantric paths to Liberation, she is given Praise by Left Hand Path Hindus & people who are into Shakti / Kundalini style of Hinduism.
Durga & Kali are linked together so much, it's in several texts but mainly from The Devi Mahatmya where Durga gets Mega pissed off with a male demon & Kali comes out of her 3rd eye then goes on a rampage killing everything, it's why The Aghori & Hindus who follow the Kaula path who worship her. Kaula is linked to Kapala which is also part of Tantric Buddhism, it's a Human Skull shaped into a bowl the aghori & other Left Hand Path Buddhist & Hindus eat, drink & beg with, my "Teacher" of Hinduism who's from Stoke on Trent is Aghori & spent years in India, he walked with Ram Datta Ram Aghori who's his Guru from Goa into Tibet on foot, sleeping in caves etc, begging for food etc & has his own Kapala he still uses to this day.
This is a very fancy Kapala from The Tantric Buddhist tradition, don't think Buddhist people are all Orange robes & being all Hippie for a moment.
โI am the divine force that resides within you, unshackling you from all that binds you, and giving you the strength to rise.โ Embrace your darkness, for in the deepest shadows, the light of transformation is born. I am the destroyer of all illusions."
Kali always has the necklace of heads to show her cutting away The Ego of the Human in all forms, she is a Deity that shows us despite our name, gender, likes, dislikes, sexual desires etc it's all illusion & the shakti (Universal power) in us all is The Truth. She cuts away all the bullshit & shows us this experience is at the core of it fake & death is the ultimate Truth.
It takes quite an "un-western" mind to grasp this concept, I always tell people who are Western to read Nisargadatta Maharaj who laid it out the most simple & blunt for Western people to grasp.
"Awareness is primordial; it is the original state, beginning-less, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change. Consciousness is on contact, a reflection against a surface, a state of duality. There can be no consciousness without awareness, but there can be awareness without consciousness, as in deep sleep. Awareness is absolute, consciousness is relative to its content; consciousness is always of something."
"The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the reader, but the paper is the common factor, always present, rarely perceived. When the ribbon is removed, typing leaves no trace on the paper. So is my mind โ the impressions keep on coming, but no trace is left."
"All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself wellโฆdesire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing-food, sex, power, fame-will make you happy is to deceive oneself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy."
" Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear."
Now if that isn't words to begin the path of Liberation I have no idea what is, those words will cut your head off right away & Kali will dance upon your "Corpse" of what once was a Human powered by Ego.