17.0" X 13.0" X 12.0"
Some aspects of the symbolism behind the sacred image of Mother Kali is as follows: Her disheveled hair forms a curtain of illusion, the fabric of space-time which organizes matter out of the chaotic sea of quantum-foam. She is full-breasted symbolizing her abundant motherhood. Her garland of human heads represent the letters of the Sanskrit Alphabet, symbolizing the repository of knowledge and wisdom. She wears a girdle of severed human hands- hands that are the principal instruments of work and so signify the action of karma. Thus the binding effects of this karma have been overcome, severed, as it were, by devotion to Kali. She has blessed the devotee by cutting him free from the cycle of karma. Her lolling tongue dramatically depicts the fact that she consumes all things and denotes the act of tasting or enjoying what society regards as forbidden, i.e. her indiscriminate enjoyment of all the world's "flavors".

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