Dhwesha - Kapala Haara
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxquuX6uJfY
Ett band från Indien som beskriver sig själva så här " interest in medieval Indian warfare, history, mythology and ancient Indian rituals/magick is what they wanted to portray through their style of death metal and decided to name the band Dhwesha meaning hatred/revenge in their local language."
Låtens titel syftar på det halsband av dödskallar som gudinnan Kali har.
Curwen Rolinson, hindu och religionsforskare, skriver om Kali :
"A strange thing; but I suppose their thought process is that they cannot understand why we would hold such high regard for a Deity Whose Name literally means “Death”, and Whose most commonly known about ‘cosmic role’ is to bring about – indeed, straight-up *is* – the End of Everything, the Destruction of the Universe; Whose customary depictions show Her garlanded with a necklace of skulls, skirted with severed arms, carrying the grisly trophy of a severed head, and blood-spattered weaponry, Whose Gaze Is Akin To Lightning, and Whose Breath Is Of Fire etc.
And yes, I suppose in that ‘light’, we can see why such perplexity is held by non-Hindu audiences when it comes to the veneration of Kali."
"For just as – and I mean this quite literally – ‘motivation’ and ‘context/circumstance’ is what transforms the killing of another from “murder” into “the justified defence by a Mother of her child”, so too with Mata Kali (and not least due to the incredible feats of strength and endurance over and above her usual limits which a mother is capable of when her progeny are under threat!). Her terror-inducing appearance and supreme ferocity of visage are there because of what She must contend with – on *our* behalf.
That old quip about how “[s]he who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster” does not apply here. For instead, She – Parvati, Uma, Durga – has become something Terrific (at least partially in the older sense of the term – a begetter of terror). Not a monster, not a demon – but rather, a being capable of besting even the mightiest of those adversarial perils arrayed against us : For what can stand against Death?
What can be more vast or overpowering than the Night? – Only Shakti, Only the Sun, and She is also both, albeit in different guises). And which is almost singularly capable of confronting ‘existential threats’ up to and including corrupted ‘existence’ itself (for such the degenerated fabric of the cosmos becomes by the end of the appointed tapestry of time), and *winning*."
"So if She is the very personification of Terror and Death to the demons whom She unveils to oppose … then what is She to us? Well, once again – a Mother, a Protector, a Champion. An Illuminator, a Liberator, a Benefactor, a ‘Care-taker’, a Guide. If we are imperilled, She will come forth – and defend us. If we are struck down, She will Avenge. And as and when we die and find ourselves transported one way or another to the Smashana – the Cremation Ground – She will be there, with open arms to welcome us ‘home’."
https://aryaakasha.com/2019/10/05/kaalratri-the-seventh-night-of-navratri-the-seventh-of-the-navadurgas-2/