You can easily mistake Kali as a devilish force of death and destruction. I mean, she is the Goddess of death 💀 and her name even comes from Kala, which literally means ‘the dark one’ in Sanskrit. Though it might be easy to assume this refers to evil darkness, it actually refers to the darkness before the world existed. So Kali represents the darkness from which everything is born. While associated with death, time, and destruction, Kali is also revered as a powerful mother figure, a destroyer