Kali

Kali is a Deity often described as the fierce mother of endings and renewal, a presence that unravels what must fall so new growth may come. In the field she registers as midnight skin and a halo of restless hair, eyes like struck flint and a gait that feels like the earth shifting. Smell: smoke of burning camphor and wet earth after a storm, threaded with the sharp sweetness of sandalwood. Sound: slow, steady drums and low, constant hymn-chanting that seems to come from the bones of the landscape. Temperature: a cool, clarifying air — the kind of chill that follows sunset and sharpens the senses.