Kali काली | She Steps on Shiva and the Dance Ends | Aluminium Print

काली | After the asuras were defeated, the storyteller says, she went on dancing. The earth shook. The stars trembled. Nothing could stop her — not the gods, not the mountains, not the rivers. So Shiva her husband lay down at her feet, played dead in the dust of her own dancing. When she stepped on him and felt his quiet body, she remembered. She bit her tongue in shame. The dance ended. The mountains breathed again. That is why she still wears that tongue — to remind us that even the fiercest mother knows her own.