卡莉女神 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	卡莉女神
品名（英）	Goddess Kali
入馆年号	2021年，2021.195
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1870 - 公元 1895
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	页: 15 7/8 × 12 英寸 (40.3 × 30.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	Kali是女性力量（shakti）的最高化身，是湿婆的爱妻帕尔瓦蒂女神的化身，在孟加拉尤其被崇拜为萨克塔崇拜的首要女神。她的复仇和血腥的形式体现了印度教社会中欧洲人最害怕和误解的一切。卡利体现了随着时间的推移而产生的力量，经常被描述为时间的毁灭者，体现了毁灭的自然力量。她通常站在她丈夫湿婆的俯伏人物上，这里可以看到他躺在地上，他的三叉戟和鼓被遗弃了。死者和折磨他们的人的幽灵形象从烟雾中浮现出来。男神梵天和毗湿奴出现在滚滚的云层中，见证了女神展示至高无上的力量。卡莉，年轻而美丽，挥舞着一把血淋淋的尖刃剑，专为斩首牺牲的水牛而设计。她在这里装饰着从他们身上割下的人头，串成一个怪诞的花环。她下手拿着一个刚断下的头。女神是四臂，每只手的手掌都被她的血腥工作染红了。今天，女性奉献者用指甲花弄脏双手以达到这种效果。卡莉的围裙由断臂组成，她的耳朵上装饰着尸体，作为令人毛骨悚然的装饰品。额头的眼睛表示她无处不在，一条红色的舌头表明她恐惧的面容。
介绍（英）	Kali, the supreme embodiment of female power (shakti), is a manifestation of the goddess Parvati, Shiva’s loving wife, and is particularly worshipped in Bengal as the premier goddess of the sakta cult. Her vengeful and blooded form came to embody all that Europeans in India came to most fear—and misunderstand—in Hindu society. Kali embodies power over time and is often described as the Destroyer of Time, embodying the natural forces of destruction. She is typically represented standing on the prostrate figure of her husband, Shiva, who here is seen lying in a charnel ground, his trident and drum abandoned. Ghostly images of the dead and their tormentors emerge from the smokey mists. The male gods Brahma and Vishnu appear in the billowing clouds as witnesses to the goddess’s display of supreme power. Kali, youthful and beautiful, wields a bloodied cusp-bladed sword designed for the decapitation of sacrificial buffalo. She is here adorned with the human heads severed from their bodies and strung into a grotesque garland. She holds a freshly severed head in her lower hand. The goddess is four armed, and the palm of each hand is stained red from her bloody work. Female devotees stain their hands with henna today to achieve this effect. Kali’s apron is composed of severed arms, her ears are adorned with corpses that serve as macabre ornaments. A forehead eye signals her omnipresence and a lolling red tongue her fearful countenance.