Kali काली | Mother Among the Bones Still Dancing | Museum Poster

काली | Look at all the bones beneath her feet, the storyteller says. Every one of them was a face that smiled at someone once. Every one of them is her own child, returned home. She dances among them not in cruelty but in welcome — the way a mother dances when her children come back from a long journey. The Ganesh-bowl in her hand holds the drink that is the same drink she gave them at birth. Time eats us all, the elders say, but she is the one who carries us through.