The goddess Kali is sometimes misinterpreted as a representation of chaos, terror, and ruin. Her wild hair, blood red tongue, and necklace of skulls may seem frightening at first, but she is actually life's fiercest defender and her destruction is not motivated by rage but by compassion. Kali emerges when decay becomes dangerous and illusion starts to crush truth; she destroys not to end life but to allow for renewal.
